Team Leaders Marys Place

About Us

• Permanent full-time leadership opportunity: make a real impact in your local community
• Not-for-profit salary packaging tax free benefits, increasing your take home pay up to 15k! 
• SCHCADS Award Rates: hourly rates range from $49.28 - $51.51 dependent on experience.

Your Role

As Team Leader at Mary’s Place, you’ll oversee the daily operations of a vibrant engagement hub, leading a team of Case Workers, Support Workers, and Volunteers. Mary’s Place is a welcoming drop-in centre that provides essential services and support for individuals experiencing or at risk of homelessness. Your role is pivotal in driving service quality and consistency—ensuring every visitor receives the support they need to move toward stable and a brighter future.

Your Responsibility

• Leading a small, committed team providing person-centred support in a community-based setting

• Creating a positive, collaborative culture that empowers clients and staff alike

• Driving service excellence through continuous improvement, training, and quality practices

• Contributing to best-practice case management that supports long-term housing stability

• Building strong relationships with external partners to enhance outcomes for clients

• Taking ownership of operational oversight, reporting, and policy development

• Supporting team growth through supervision, coaching, and regular reflective practice

• Advocating for clients and ensuring trauma-informed care is embedded in all we do

You Will Need

• Qualifications in Social Work, Community Services, or a related field (or equivalent experience)

• Proven experience in team leadership or service coordination

• A understanding of homelessness, housing, and the community services landscape

• A trauma-informed, strengths-based approach to working with vulnerable clients

• Strong communication, collaboration, and stakeholder engagement skills

• Strong reporting and data management skills.

• A current NSW driver licence and willingness to travel as needed

Apply Now

If this sounds like you, don’t wait - apply now, we are interviewing applications as we receive them.

Any queries please contact Kim.Kennedy@vinnies.org.au

St Vincent de Paul Society (NSW) welcomes people from all backgrounds, ethnicities, cultures, and experiences. We are an equal opportunity employer and are committed to engaging a diverse workforce. We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, people with disability, people from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds, people who identify as LGBTQIA+, candidates of any or no religious beliefs and applicants of all ages. If you are a candidate with disability please let us know if you require any support to participate in the application and recruitment process.

The Society is committed to being a Child Safe organisation, further information can be found in the Society’s commitment to Safeguarding Children & Young People. Prior to an offer of employment, candidates will be required to complete the pre-employment checks including a Police check & Working with Children check. A health / medical assessment may be required for some roles.