Director of Aged and Community Care

Director of Aged and Community Care - May Shaw Home Care Programs

• Locations - Swansea or Scottsdale – Full Time
• 12 Months Fixed Term (Maternity Leave Cover)

Opportunity for a Director of Aged and Community Care to join our dedicated team

Why May Shaw?

May Shaw Health Centre Inc. adopts a community minded approach at its Aged Care services in Swansea, St Helens and Scottsdale complimented by our Aged Care facilities in Swansea and Scottsdale providing a continuum of care of services to our local communities. Home Care services include home care packages, Support at Home, Commonwealth Home Support Program, Fee for Service, and Independent Living Units across the communities of Glamorgan Spring Bay, Dorset, and Break O Day.

Why regional Home Care?

Our Home Care Program provides a high standard of person-centred care to clients/consumers residing in their own homes, supporting people to remain independent and celebrate life at every stage.

This position reports to the Chief Executive Officer and offers an exciting leadership opportunity at the forefront of changing market dynamics and strategic growth shaping a vibrant, healthy future for our communities.

Our regional communities offer close-knit, heart-felt, homely living with a strong sense of history alongside emerging vibrancy as generations old and new commune and collaborate to enjoy the richness of Tasmania.

The Director of Aged and Community Care would ideally be located in the heart of our communities, maybe, the coastal town of Swansea on the pristine east coast, or the historic rich Scottsdale near the bike riding capital Derby on the north-east coast.

Position Purpose

The position of Director of Aged and Community Care will lead the delivery of aged and community care, within the community setting, ensuring the best possible outcomes for May Shaw’s clients. Working closely with the operational teams the Director of Aged and Community Care is to lead the direct care team whilst ensuring compliance with policies, procedures, regulations, and relevant legislation to ultimately provided our clients with the care they need.

The Director of Aged and Community Care has full oversight of the community based aged care services including management of all reporting and documentation, employee training, provision of ongoing management, leadership and support to all staff. This includes working closely with and building positive and effective relationships with key stakeholders, including consumers, families and employees, as well as managing quality improvement activities to achieve specific goals and objectives as they align to the strategic direction of May Shaw.

Role Accountabilities

• Participate in and lead organisational audit processes with the relevant industry bodies as they occur, ensuring that any compliance is met as a matter of priority.
• Provide management and supervision to ensure May Shaw Health Centre Inc. adheres to legislative requirements.
• Consult, network and liaise with relevant agencies and service providers to ensure consumer needs are met in line with objectives and timelines and industry best practice.
• Contribute to the ongoing development of the community services program including participating in development of policies, procedures, planning and reviewing of service delivery.
• Supervise, support and be a resource for the Home Care Coordinators, Home Care Administrators, Day Centre Coordinator, and all employees within the programs.
• Create processes that actively engage all stakeholders, in particular all staff in evaluating care and services, and improving upon them to maintain high level industry standards.
• Builds strong partnerships and networks to facilitate genuine person-centred and client focused outcomes. This includes fostering positive relationships with clients, families, and employees.
• Ensures that regular and effective communication is in place, including regular meetings, client and family meetings as required, stakeholder meetings and staff meetings.
• Ensures performance development activities are undertaken as required, including performance management.
• Work with the Human Resources team to identify staffing requirements, participate in recruitment and ongoing identification of training for employees.
• Promote a positive workplace culture that is open, supportive, and responsive to suggestions, comments and complaints from clients, families and staff.
• Responsible for the preparation of mandatory annual financial reporting of Home and Community Programs in conjunction with the finance team.
• Undertake other duties as required at the direction of management executive that are determined to be within the employee’s skill level that are consistent with the scope of the position they are employed to undertake.
• Excellent leadership and team management abilities, with a track record building and developing high-performing teams
• Exceptional communication and interpersonal skill to collaborate across business areas and engage stakeholders at all levels
• Demonstrable experience in a similar position, with proven ability to respond to changing market dynamics to deliver innovative outcomes.
• Strong conceptual, critical thinking and analytical skills.
• Demonstrated knowledge of continuous improvement concepts and applications.
• Competence in Microsoft Office suite and ability to learn specific business program software platforms.

Selection Criteria

Our ideal candidate will bring the following:

• Tertiary qualification in Management.
  
• Excellent leadership and team management abilities, with a track record building and developing high-performing teams
  
• Exceptional communication and interpersonal skill to collaborate across business areas and engage stakeholders at all levels
  
• Demonstrable experience in a similar position, with proven ability to respond to changing market dynamics to deliver innovative outcomes .
  
• Strong conceptual, critical thinking and analytical skills.
  
• Demonstrated knowledge of continuous improvement concepts and applications.
  
• Competence in Microsoft Office suite and ability to learn specific business program platforms.

Culture and Benefits

Our Vision is to support our communities to celebrate life in every stage. We do this by working with our rural communities to provide responsive and innovative health and aged care services to enable our local people to remain in their home community.

Our values guide the way we deliver quality care:

• Collaboration- Communicating with honesty and integrity and partnering with each other and our communities.
• Equity- Celebrating inclusivity and diversity within our communities.
• Respect- Earning respect and trust by valuing individuals, families and communities with honesty and dignity.
• Leadership- To have the courage to provide leadership, governance and management at all levels of our organisation and communities.

If you want to make a significant contribution to our values-based organisation, we can offer a competitive salary with generous salary sacrificing options to maximise your take-home pay, plus extensive well-being services for you and your family.

How to Apply

Please submit your application with a resume and cover letter addressing the above criteria via our career portal:

https://may-shaw-health-centre.breezy.hr/

We will be interviewing as applications are received -Apply Now!

Please note applications received via Seek will not be considered.

For additional information about this role please call the Chief Executive Officer, Fiona on 0408 124 063.

Benefits

Generous salary packaging options maximising your take home pay

EAP counselling and well-being services to take care of you and your family

Collaborative, diverse culture delivering high quality care