Are you a passionate, caring and dedicated Complex Support Manager who is focused on making a difference in client care? If so, we are keen to hear from you.

Minda’s mission is to facilitate a lifetime of care, services, and housing for South Australians with cognitive disability, so they can live their best life.

We are a value-based organisation: we work with heart, to create opportunity, operating with respect, to build a community, inspired by empathy.  These values run through the core of each decision for each person we support.

The Opportunity:

We are looking for a Complex Support Manager to join our dynamic growing team – The Supported Independent Living. The Complex Support Manager will provide leadership in nursing practice and ensures maintenance of standards of nursing care.

What’s in it for you?

• Working for an essential service provider with job security
• Attractive remuneration including salary packaging and additional benefits
• Ongoing career development opportunities
• A sense of value and purpose whilst significantly impacting the lives of the people we support
• A supportive, highly skilled, and collaborative team environment
• Flexibility including work life balance and independence
• On-site gym, car parking and café facilities
• Company car fleet for community visit

Key Responsibilities:

• Communicating persuasively
• Supporting and encouraging person centred practices
• Providing quality nursing care by acting as a consultant in own area of clinical proficiency
• Undertaking and reviewing reporting, documentation, administration, and trend analysis
• Achieving and evaluating client and service outcomes
• Leading adherence to WHS and other relevant legislation and standards and workplace policies and procedures
• Providing leadership in quality and practice improvement
• Providing leadership within the business
• Managing relationships with clients, families, other work areas and stakeholders
• Facilitating participation and inclusion
• Aligning own and other ways of working with Minda’s purpose, goals, and values.

 Key knowledge, attributes, and skills:

• Sound knowledge of human rights-based approaches to supporting a person with a disability
• Knowledge of current trends and practices in the Aged and Disability Sector
• Knowledge of NDIS Practice Standards and funding models
• Knowledge of WHS guidelines and identification, reporting and risk mitigation of hazards
• Significant experience working in disability or aged care using a person-centred practice approach
• Experience with leading teams
• Experience with coordinating and monitoring quality standards
• Experience with the identification, implementation and evaluation of continuous improvement projects directed to clinical care
• Significant experience with Palliative Care / End of Life Care
• Highly skilled in the identification and mitigation of clinical risks
• Highly skilled in a specific area of clinical proficiency
• Ability to relate on a personal level with people with intellectual disability
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Computer skills including Microsoft Office suite of software
• A focus on innovation and continuous improvement
• A desire to build skills through coaching and mentoring

Key Requirements of the role:

Essential:

• Registered with AHPRA as a Registered Nurse
• Minimum three years’ experience in a similar role
• Holds a current and unrestricted practising certificate

Desirable:

• Postgraduate studies in Gerontology, Disability or other specialty relevant to practice
• Minimum three years’ experience with Palliative Care / End of Life Care

Clearances and Licenses:

• National Police Clearance
• Department of Community and Social Inclusion (DCSI) Clearance Certificate
• Australian Driver’s License

We are looking for someone who is aligned with our values and is driven to make a positive difference for the people we support. If that sounds like you and you meet the criteria set out above, we would like to hear from you.

How to apply:

To apply select the ‘apply’ button below and you will be redirected to our website where you will then be able view a detailed position description and commence your application.

Confidential enquiries can be made to Cheryl Loh on (08) 8422 6534 or [email protected], using the subject line: Complex Support Manager - Supported Independent Living enquiry via EthicalJobs.