This is a remote position.
Schedule: Monday-Friday, 8:00am to 5:00pm Burleigh time-zone (40 hours per week)
Planning
Identify and recommend opportunities to enhance practice, e.g., frontline care and client outcomes through improved recruitment and training initiatives.
Deliver timely recruitment support that meets client and funding needs.
Leadership & Coordination
Actively participate in the formation and review of attendant care and support worker policy, standards, and practices.
Contribute to the development and continual improvement of policy, procedure, and process.
Recruiting Excellent Staff
Lead support-worker recruitment, liaising with the Manager and HR to deliver effective advertising campaigns.
Continually review applications, proactively screening and interviewing candidates promptly.
Undertake reference and certification checks, identifying gaps and training needs.
Make ‘role offer’ recommendations of high-quality candidates to HR and the Hiring Manager, providing all necessary paperwork to HR.
Provide recruitment support as requested for other areas.
Coordinate people resources efficiently to ensure effective scheduling of client services within budget, time, and approval constraints.
Training Highly Skilled People
Deliver learning needs assessments for staff and prepare source tailored educational opportunities.
Continually improve induction training programs.
Deliver care- and client-centred induction training and onboarding initiatives for support workers and nursing staff (e.g., formal training, buddy shifts).
Provide daily troubleshooting and support for staff as needed.
Identify and recommend suitable external training providers and courses as necessary.
Encourage and motivate staff to participate in learning and development opportunities.
Roster Support
Prepare regular rosters and shift schedules using the staff roster platform.
Publish support work shifts and nursing appointments at least four weeks in advance.
Ensure all shifts have been accepted by staff at least one week in advance.
Identify urgent shift cover for unexpected staff absences and leave, and communicate any staff changes in a timely and appropriate manner to clients and other stakeholders.
Develop contingency plans for unexpected staff shortages due to illness, emergencies, or other unforeseen circumstances.
Communicate roster changes to clients and their care team as required.
Schedule staff according to client-match, availability, and training.
Ensure client rosters and support needs (schedule of care hours) are met.
Master the roster system and identify improvements.
Develop and update shift requirement descriptions.
Build effective working relationships with clients, staff, and other key stakeholders.
Workplace Health & Safety (WHS)
Effectively communicate with and build strong rapport with Coordinators and Managers.
Exercise a duty of care to ensure actions don’t negatively impact the health and/or safety of others or self in the workplace.
Ensure that anything provided for health and safety is not willfully or recklessly interfered with or misused.
Ensure compliance with WHS policies, procedures, and any reasonable instruction.
Current First Aid certificate
Current police check, NDIS Worker Screening, and Working with Children Check
Substantial experience in spinal injury/wound/disability/community support work.
Demonstrated capacity to lead positively and effectively.
Demonstrated experience developing and delivering training and upskilling initiatives.
Highly developed written and verbal communication skills with strong interpersonal and problem-solving capabilities.
Demonstrated commitment to delivering consumer-led care services.
Demonstrated ability and commitment to promote service development and business growth.
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