• Full Time - Canberra

About the Organisation

Enhance the lives of older Australians by joining the Life Without Barriers team. Guided by every client’s individual needs and interests, our personalised in-home Aged Care services focus on empowering every person to maintain their home comforts, health, and connections within their community.

Life Without Barriers is a leading social purpose organisation of 8,000 employees working in more than 500 communities across Australia. We support children, young people and families, people with disability, older people and people with mental illness. We work with people who are homeless and refugees and asylum seekers. Join a community of people dedicated to breaking down barriers.

We want to employ people who reflect the diversity of our clients to ensure we can support each client's individual needs and wants. We encourage people of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander background and people with disability to apply.

About the Role

We are experiencing exciting growth within our Aged Care Program in the ACT,  and are now looking for multiple Team Leaders for our service delivery teams based in Canberra. We are currently seeking to recruit;

• 1 x Permanent Full time position
• 1 x Full Time, maximum term contract (to 26 August 2022)

We provide community based home care support to a large number of clients across Canberra and surrounds, and this role will be focused on services within our Home Care packages program

The ordinary hours of work are Monday - Friday during business hours, however, Some work outside of core hours may be required to accommodate workplace flexibility to ensure the needs of clients and staff members are met.

We are looking for someone with prior leadership/coordination experience within the Aged Care industry and a strong understanding of the Aged Care Standards and Home Care packages.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop care plans in partnership with consumers and their representatives to set and meet goals and achieve outcomes.
• Coordinate and monitor high quality care and support services
• Monitor Home Care Package individual costs, ensuring services are within budget constraints, guidelines, and Home Care Quality Standards.
• Monthly data entry for reporting requirements.
• Develop, lead, motivate and manage a small cohort of community-based support workers
• Liaise with internal and external stakeholders.
• Model appropriate conflict resolution, communication, and positive behaviour management skills, point of escalation and adjudication where relevant for client and direct staff feedback
• Communicate and act in ways that are consistent with Life Without Barriers values: Responsive, Imaginative, Courageous, Respectful and Relationships

Benefits

• Meaningful work opportunity at one of Australia's largest & leading Social Purpose Organisations
• Partner & collaborate with industry leaders within Aged Care Programs and grow your skillset
• Competitive remuneration including access to salary packaging benefits and a Monthly Rostered Day Off (RDO)

Skills & Experience

• An unrestricted Australian Driver’s Licence
• Demonstrated experience of working in a leadership or coordination role within the Care Industry
• Demonstrated knowledge of person-centred thinking, Aged Care Standards and an understanding of Aged Care Home Care Packages

Successful candidates will be required to clear relevant state-based probity checks including National Criminal History Record Check and the ACT Working With Vulnerable People Card.

How to Apply

Include your resume and covering letter in one document, click ‘Apply’ and follow the prompts. For any enquiries including persons with disability that require adjustments, contact Kristy Crowe at [email protected], using the subject line: Team Leader (Aged Care) - Canberra enquiry via EthicalJobs.

We are dedicated to playing our part to reduce the spread of COVID-19 and bring continuity of care and support to our clients. With this in mind, if you are successful, we will discuss with you an alternative to a face to face interview. 

Life Without Barriers supports the Royal Commission into violence, abuse, neglect and exploitation of people with disability. We believe people with disability need to be heard and for these experiences to influence how support services like ours are delivered. View our statement here (https://bit.ly/2GzZGWA).