Team Leader

Northern District | Homes NSW

- Salary: $133,348 - $146,945 + super + leave loading
- Location: Newcastle
- Creation of Talent Pool for future roles

Your role

This is an exciting opportunity to step into a leadership role within Housing Services. You will lead and support a team delivering client-centred services to some of the most vulnerable members of our community, ensuring high-quality outcomes while driving strong operational performance.

As a Team Leader, you will play a key role in balancing customer service excellence with the achievement of business objectives. You will support staff to navigate complex client needs, deliver responsive services, and contribute to positive housing outcomes across the district.

This recruitment will create a talent pool for future Team Leader opportunities across Northern District.

What you’ll do

As a Team Leader, you will provide leadership, direction and support to a team operating in a fast-paced service environment. You will be responsible for managing team performance, developing staff capability, and ensuring services are delivered efficiently, professionally and in line with policy and legislative requirements.

You will support your team to deliver quality customer service to clients with diverse and often complex needs, while ensuring business outcomes and service standards are achieved.

You will:

- Lead, coach and develop staff to achieve individual and team objectives.
- Support the delivery of responsive, client-centred services that achieve positive outcomes for customers and communities.
- Monitor performance and service delivery outcomes, identifying opportunities for continuous improvement.
- Manage complex client matters and provide support and guidance to staff.
- Build and maintain effective relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
- Manage competing priorities while maintaining service quality and operational performance.
- Contribute to business improvement initiatives and operational priorities.
- Ensure compliance with relevant policies, procedures and legislative requirements.

What we’re looking for

- Demonstrated experience leading teams in a complex service delivery environment.
- Strong leadership skills, including coaching, performance management and capability development.




- Commitment to delivering excellent customer service and achieving positive outcomes for vulnerable clients and communities.
- Proven ability to balance customer service delivery with operational priorities and performance targets.
- Strong stakeholder engagement and relationship management skills.
- Sound decision-making, problem-solving and communication skills.
- Ability to manage competing priorities and deliver results in a high-volume workplace.
- Current NSW Driver Licence.

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We focus on hiring people who share our commitment and goals of inclusion, collaboration, adaptability, courage and integrity. If you meet the essential requirements and the role resonates with you, please apply – you do not need to meet every desired requirement for us to want to talk to you.

What We Offer

We offer a variety of benefits, including:

- A challenging and rewarding career

- Flexible, autonomous work environment

- Competitive pay and conditions

- Training and development opportunities to build and maintain capabilities

- Health & Wellbeing and Employee Assistance Programs.

Want more information? Visit our website to see more information on Working for us.

We do work that really matters

Working for the Department of Communities and Justice (DCJ) provides lots of opportunities to make a real difference. We collaborate with other agencies and community partners, to improve lives and realise the potential of children, adults, families and communities. We're focused on breaking, rather than managing, disadvantage. It’s work that really matters.

Apply now and join Australia’s top public sector employer where we will support you and provide an exciting and flexible working environment!

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attach an up-to-date résumé (maximum 5 pages) and a cover letter (maximum 3 pages) addressing the 2 targeted questions below with a brief outline on how you meet the requirements of the role:

Question 1

How do your skills, knowledge and experience demonstrate your ability to lead a team of staff who do varying roles?

Question 2

As Team Leader you will drive performance whilst balancing customer service commitments. Please provide an example that highlights your ability to achieve business targets whilst ensuring customer service delivery standards are maintained.

Applications close Sunday, 15 November 2026 at 11:59pm AEST.

Got a question?

For more information about the role or what it’s like to work for DCJ, please contact the hiring manager, Jamie McMahon on 0427 408 *** or *************@homes.nsw.gov.au

If you’ve got a question about applying or would benefit from an adjustment in the recruitment process to help you perform at your best (including an alternate method submission of the application), please call Syvonne Pereira on 0498 091 *** or via ***************@dcj.nsw.gov.au

Visit Recruitment adjustments on the DCJ website to learn more.

Inclusion and Diversity lies at the heart of how we recruit

We continue to hire great people with a wide variety of skills, experience and backgrounds. This includes people with disability, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People, women, people identifying as LGBTIQ+, culturally and linguistically diverse people, carers and other diversity groups.

To find out what DCJ are doing to build an inclusive and diverse workforce, visit Inclusion and diversity on the DCJ website.

Other Information

A talent pool may be created for future ongoing and temporary roles and is valid for a period of up to 18 months.

For more information visit Applying for DCJ jobs on the DCJ website.

Thank you for your interest in this role. We look forward to receiving your application.

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