Job Summary
- Applications close:
- Job posted on: 15th Jul 2021
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.
Our Aged and Community Care program in Townsville is currently looking for an experienced and motivated Program Coordinator to lead a team of Support Workers. This position is being offered on a permanent full-time basis; office hours are 8:30am - 5:00pm Monday to Friday. In additional to an attractive remuneration package, the successful incumbent for this position will also be offered a monthly RDO.
To be successful in this position and dependent upon the arrangements for individual clients you may also work directly with clients from time to time as part of the role as well as participating in on call responsibilities on a rotating basis.
Ideally, you will have proven Aged Care experience with providing services to clients with Home Care Packages, Commonwealth Home Support Program, Queensland Community Care Services and Veteran’s Home Care.
Successful candidates will be required to clear probity checks including National Criminal History Record Check and Working with Children Check (where relevant to the role).
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For any enquiries including persons with disability that require adjustments, contact [email protected] using the subject line: Program Coordinator - Aged Care - Townsville enquiry via EthicalJobs.
Applicants are encouraged to apply as soon as possible as applications may be reviewed prior to the closing date; and as such the closing date is subject to change without notice.
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 (https://bit.ly/2GzZGWA)