Operational Trainer

**About The Role**

Scope has an exciting and unique opportunity for an Operational Trainer to work within our Learning & Engagement Team. This is a new casual role, delivering learning and training in all phases of the employee/learning journey of a Disability Support Worker and includes:

- Role model and continuously embed a culture of adult learning, encouraging self-directed learning
- Design & deliver learning that is targeted and tailored to achieving identified learning outcomes based on Adult Learning Principles
- Promote and role model best practice service provision for new and existing employees in key capability areas of Direct Support Work
- Deliver training and assess for competency in key manual handling activities of disability support work, particularly people moving tasks
- Support the development and delivery of activities for the prevention of manual handling injuries as a priority area, including O’Shea manual handling training program implementation
- Support the delivery of the Onboarding Program in a range of key practice areas of a Disability Support Worker (e.g Manual Handling, Person Centred Practice, Positive Behaviour Support)
- Deliver learning on a as-needs-basis that supports best practice in key capability areas of Disability Support Work

**About You**

You will be passionate about learning and providing employees with the knowledge, skills and expected behaviour to be best practice workers that are person-centred in all that they do. Ideally you will have:

- Experience in designing and delivering highly engaging learning or training programs based on adult learning principles
- Hands-on experience being a Best Practice Manual Handling Practitioner (desirable)
- Experience in key support areas of Disability Support Work (eg. Administering Medication, Infection Prevention, or clinical service provision, supporting individuals with Behaviours of Concern (desirable)
- Experience training or coaching a frontline workforce in Best Practice Manual Handling OHS and other training programs, ideally in a disability service environment (desirable)
- Demonstrated success in the development of safety cultures that promote workplace health & safety while supporting the achievement of organisational goals
- As a person you will have a 'Can do' attitude, ability to manage your time and workload effectively and efficiently and enjoy working in and being an active part of a team

**Scope as an Employer**

Take your career on a journey with Scope and work proactively with us to achieve our mission
- Please note, the successful applicant will be required to hold a NDIS Worker Screening Check Clearance and a Working with Children Check. If you have lived or worked for a continuous period of 12 months or more in another country within the last 10 years, a certified International Police Check from that country or countries will also be required._
- At Scope, the ongoing safety and wellbeing of our employees and customers is a priority. One of our commitments in response to Covid-19 was to implement a policy requiring all our employees regardless of the job to be fully vaccinated. Full vaccinated under Scope’s policy is 3 doses of a Covid-19 vaccine. Please note that should you be offered a position at Scope; a condition of that offer would be to provide proof that you have had at least 3 doses of a Covid-19 vaccine._