• Community Development (Community Services & Development)
  
• Full time
  
• $90,000 – $100,000 per year

The Senior Project Officer, Aged Care & Elders will support the Elders Care workforce employed in Aboriginal Community Controlled Organisations across Victoria. In particular, the Senior Project Officer is responsible for supporting training and workforce development activities as part of the Elders Care Support program in Victoria.

This role will liaise with the Aged Care workforce to ensure their training and professional development support adequately enables them to support older Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in their Communities. Workforce development activities include a ‘train the trainer’ program, delivery of non-accredited training including a particular focus on embedding cultural safety and trauma informed practice, and advocacy to ensure workers and clients participating in the Aged Care services are culturally safe.

Benefits

• Working for Community in a culturally safe Aboriginal Community Controlled Organisation.
• Access to generous Not for Profit salary packaging entitlements and leave loading.
• Access to additional leave entitlements including cultural leave, purchased leave and bonus Christmas leave if employed at VACCHO into the following year.
• Organisational early finish Fridays and flexible working arrangements considered.
• Work in inner-city Collingwood with wellness spaces and end of trip facilities available.

Key responsibilities include:

• Undertake and complete a non-accredited training program, including a train the trainer program.
• Ensure that nationally consistent training and onboarding materials are customised for a Victorian context and kept up to date, to meet workforce needs.
• Deliver a suite of non-accredited training and introduce an onboarding program to support the workforce in a culturally appropriate manner.
• Work collaboratively with ACCOs to deliver non-accredited training and identify and develop other beneficial training resources.
• Understand workforce needs and provide proactive support to the workforce, and ongoing access to professional development and mentoring as required.
• Advocacy to ensure workforce needs are being met, and to address any issues with the aged care landscape.
• Building knowledge of local services and organisations workforce can utilise.
• Produce and deliver communiques and resources and organise engagement activities including Yarning Circles as required.

Knowledge and Experience

• Demonstrated experience working with older Aboriginal people and Elders.
• Experience working in a system navigation role, or in client advocacy.
• Experience in, or in-depth understanding of the Australian Aged Care system and issues affecting access for older Aboriginal people and Elders.
• Demonstrated proficiency and experience using Microsoft applications (e.g., Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook, Project Management) combined with a high level of accuracy and attention to detail.

Desirable

• Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander peoples are strongly encouraged to apply as your cultural and lived experiences are central to the work we do.

Highly Regarded

• Demonstrated knowledge, understanding, and commitment to Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander peoples, cultures, and health.
• Demonstrated understanding of the philosophy and practice of Aboriginal Community Control.
• Demonstrated ability to work with Aboriginal peoples, Communities, and organisations, in a culturally safe, and appropriate, manner.
• Demonstrated understanding of LGBTQIASB+ issues and experience with LGBTQIASB+ people via professional engagement, employment or lived experience.

Personal Attributes

• Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to work with a wide range of people to develop and maintain effective working relationships at all levels.
• Demonstrated capacity to manage sensitive information, maintain confidentiality and always remain impartial.
• Self-motivated and demonstrated ability to work independently with minimal supervision, and as an effective team member, promoting cooperation and commitment to achieve goals.
• A flexible approach, with strong organisational and planning skills, including the ability to effectively manage time and workload, prioritise tasks, and meet changing circumstances, competing demands, interruptions, and deadlines.

Key selection criteria specific to the role

• Demonstrated knowledge and experience relevant to this role as described.

Get in touch

For more information regarding this role including requesting the full position description, please contact [email protected] using the subject line: Senior Project Officer - Aged Care & Elders enquiry via EthicalJobs.

Other employment related information

Employment is subject to satisfactory and ongoing police records check (international where relevant) and Working with Children Check.

About Us

We are a centre of expertise, policy advice, training, innovation and leadership in Aboriginal health and wellbeing.
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VACCHO is committed to welcoming and embracing the diversity of cultures,
identities, gender, sex, and sexually diverse identities and expressions, experiences, beliefs, and values of all people.

We believe in the right for all people to be treated with the respect and dignity at all times, and that all people who work for, govern or undertake work at or visit us should at all times feel safe and included.

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