• Community Visitor Scheme Project Officer
• Make a Difference to Older Victorians
• Anywhere in Regional Victoria (Remote, we work from home)
• Part Time, 4 days per week – contract to 30 June 2023 (potential opportunity to extend dependent on funding)

Who are we?

Elder Rights Advocacy supports older people, their families and representatives in Victoria address issues related to Commonwealth funded aged care services. Our service is free, independent, and confidential.

We believe that older people have a right to express their opinion and receive respect.

Our job is to listen and support older Victorians and their family to identify and advocate for solutions that best respond to their circumstances. Sometimes this involves us advocating strongly to an aged care service and challenging them to provide better care.

We are a member of the national Older Persons Advocacy Network (OPAN), delivering the National Aged Care Advocacy Program (NACAP). We also deliver the Aged Care Navigator trial and the Community Visitors Scheme (CVS).

We acknowledge the Traditional Owners of the lands on which we work. We honour the strength and resilience of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and pay our respects to all Elders past, present and emerging.

Our Values

We reflect the following values in all our work with older people: Respect; Partnership; Empowerment; Integrity; Inclusiveness; Responsiveness; and Accountability. Our workforce is expected to adhere to these values in all that we say and do.

The Opportunity

Reporting to the Volunteer Coordinator, the CVS Project Officer assists the Volunteer Coordinator to initiate and sustain recruitment strategies for Victoria’s aged care planning regions. The CVS Project Officer is responsible for training and supporting volunteers who undertake CVS visits to older people living in their own homes and in aged care facilities. Building and maintaining relationships with internal and external stakeholders will be a key part of this role along with matching volunteers with older persons.

ERA currently operates the CVS program across five aged care planning regions; Gippsland, Loddon Mallee, Grampians, Hume & Barwon South West. This position will involve working across all regions and may involve occasional travel.

All staff at ERA work remotely from home and come together for one day meetings in Melbourne CBD approximately every six weeks. Staff are set up with equipment that is OH&S compliant. We take very seriously the health and wellbeing of our staff who told us they wished to work remotely post COVID restrictions. We can now service our clients more effectively as we draw our workforce from across Victoria.

ABOUT YOU

What we are looking for:

You will be a passionate, organised, and driven person that wants to be part of an organisation that exists to give a voice to older people. It goes without saying you will have exceptional communication skills, have had previous experience in a similar role, working with volunteers. Ideally you will have the following:

• Demonstrated ability to work unsupervised as well as with an effective team with a positive can-do attitude.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Excellent networking skills with the ability to recruit suitable volunteers for older people.
• Accurate and timely data reporting.
• Demonstrated experience working with volunteers, preferably in the aged care sector.

• Demonstrated experience managing people.
• Proactive approach to work and a track record of delivering results.
• Demonstrated initiative in completing tasks with tight deadlines, successfully working remotely and flexibility to handle constantly changing priorities.
• Sensitivity in working with a range of diverse cultures.
• You must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 or hold a valid medical exemption certificate. Evidence of vaccination status will be required prior to commencement of role.
• Hold a current Police check or willing to undergo a national police check.

Sounds Like you?

To apply, please select “apply” button and provide us with your current resume and a covering letter addressing the Knowledge, Experience and Skills we are looking for and why you are a great fit with ERA. We would also encourage you to visit the ERA web site https://era.asn.au/ and OPAN’s web site https://opan.org.au/ to get to know us.

Please note only successful applicants will be contacted.

Applications close 5pm on 5 November 2022.