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Community Aged Care Innovation Manager - Gold Coast

Volunteering Gold Coast

WHO WE ARE:

Volunteering Gold Coast (VGC) is one of Australia's leading volunteer recruitment and support agencies - recruiting, supporting, screening, training and placing approximately 4,500 new volunteers each year. VGC believes that the power of volunteerism will help to create stronger and more resilient communities. As a local NFP organisation, VGC exists to optimise social impact by harnessing innovation, promoting inclusion and connecting communities.

Our values: Collaborative, Innovative, Inclusive, Impactful, Fearless.

The successful applicant will be able to:

  • Cultivate and coordinate an Aged Care Model of practice, optimising individual funding with emphasis on consumer directed care and strengths based approach
  • Work in partnership with relevant internal and external stakeholders to ensure organisational responsiveness to changes in the Aged Care Sector
  • Manage the service development process, product design, associated research, implementation and evaluation
  • Identify and refer opportunities for innovation service development through project management
  • Provide expert advice, guidance and support to all relevant stakeholders to ensure services are delivered compliantly under relevant Aged Care legislation and regulatory obligations
  • Manage recruitment and professional development of the Aged Care workforce through a planned and consistent approach, ensuring workforce availability and skills to meet client needs, and deliver program outputs
  • Support the senior executive to manage sector funding contracts to ensure achievement of outputs and outcomes
  • Ensure all record preparations, reports, submissions and correspondences in accordance with policies, procedures adhere to funding agreements, Age Care legislation, regulation and standards

Requirements:

  • Minimum of three (3) years’ experience as a Manager or Coordinator within the Aged Care sector
  • A detailed understanding of the Aged Care sector, particularly pertaining to CHSP, HCP and Community Visitor Scheme funding and support mechanisms
  • A detailed, applied understanding of Continuous Quality Improvement relevant to Aged Care legislation, regulations and Standards
  • Demonstrated understanding of Consumer-Directed Care, and the ways in which the needs of older people, people living with disabilities and other vulnerable cohorts are able to be met through individualised funding
  • Demonstrated ability to apply creative thinking to institutional services
  • Willingness and ability to support the promotion of VGC’s CHSP, HCP and CVS services, and therefore grow VGC’s Aged Care portfolio
  • Well-developed team management and leadership skills; the ability to inspire and motivate colleagues; and the drive to act as a change agent within the organisation
  • Have a professional and strengths-based approach to supporting all recipients of the organisation’s services
  • Familiar with alternative care models such as culture, relationship or inter generational centred care
  • Demonstrated understanding of and ability to carry out high-level case management duties
  • Experience in the Microsoft suite of programmes with demonstrated proficiency in Word and Excel

THE BENEFITS:

  • The position is permanent, full time - Monday to Friday.
  • We have generous salary packaging.

For a confidential discussion and/or position description please contact Susan Clayton on 07 5526 0688.

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