Aps Level 4

**Job Reference Number **23-HRDIV-17082

**Classification **APS Level 4

**Job Title **Administrative Support Officer

**Division **Home and Residential Division

**Branch **Support at Home Reform Branch

**Section **Support at Home Implement Section

**Location **Woden, ACT

**Status **Ongoing

**Employment type **Full-time

**Salary Range **$75,917 - $80,215

**Contact Officer Name**:Janeanne Hays
**Phone**:02 62898486

**Eligibility**
- To be eligible for employment with the Department of Health and Aged Care applicants

must be an Australian citizen at the time an offer of employment is made
- An applicant’s suitability for employment with Health will also be assessed through a

variety of pre-employment check processes, such as:

- Satisfactory completion of a criminal history check, and where relevant a

Working with Children and Vulnerable People Check.
- Completion of a medical declaration and pre-employment medical (where

required).
- Providing evidence of qualifications.

**Division Responsibilities**

The Home and Residential Division is responsible for providing aged care to older

Australians in the setting that suits their needs and preferences. It is responsible for the

reform work to improve aged care services at home and in residential care. This includes:

- the design, development, and implementation to establish a single support at home

program which will replace the Commonwealth Home Support Programme, Home Care

Packages, Short Term Restorative Care and Residential Respite referrals
- Management of the Australian National Aged Care Classification (AN-ACC) funding

model for residential care
- commissioning a new single assessment workforce
- development, implementation, and the management of efficient, effective, and

sustainable funding programs for home and residential care
- data and analysis to support evidence-based decisions and policies.

**Branch Responsibilities**

The Support at Home Reform Branch is responsible for the design of a new Support at Home

Program to replace the Commonwealth Home Support Programme (CHSP), Home Care

Package Program (HCP), Short-Term Restorative Care and residential respite service

referrals; and designing and implementing a new Single Assessment System. This includes

policy development, managing budget processes, developing an underpinning Assessment,

Classification and Funding (ACF) model, consumer and provider research activities,

stakeholder consultation and management, and overarching project management.

**Section Responsibilities**

The Support at Home Implementation section is designing, planning, and managing the

activities and tasks required to transition from the current in-home aged care model to the

support at home program. Key items of work include stakeholder, change, and transition

management, training and education, communications, internal and external engagements,

data transition internal and external stakeholder management, data migration and

mapping, documentation and content development, human resource and financial

management and branch corporate support.

**Key Responsibilities**
- Support engagement with internal and external stakeholders.
- Drafting written communications ie presentations, ministerial correspondence, webpage

updates, factsheets, FAQs, etc
- Undertake accessibility checks on documents.
- Other duties to assist the Section and branch as directed.

**Key Capabilities**
- Proven organisational and time management skills, with good attention to detail
- Demonstrated written communication skills to various audiences
- Ability to use a range of software including outlook, word, excel, PowerPoint
- Good verbal communication skills over the phone, face to face, or at meetings
- Ability to develop and foster strong interpersonal relationships with all stakeholders.
- Ability to work independently, with mínimal supervision, in a team setting.

**Minimum Requirements**

RecruitAbility is a scheme which aims to attract and develop applicants with disability and

also facilitate cultural changes in selection panels and agency recruitment. All vacancies for

the Department of Health and Aged Care are advertised under the RecruitAbility Scheme.
- Job applicants with disability who:

- opt into the scheme
- declare they have disability, and
- meet the minimum requirements of a vacancy advertised under the scheme

are advanced to a further stage in the selection process.
- More information on RecruitAbility can be found here: RecruitAbility scheme: A guide for

applicants

Minimum requirements for this role include:

- Experience in stakeholder management
- Strong written communication skills
- Ability to work in a team

**Additional Information
**Employees perform their duties at one of the Department of Health and Aged Care (DoHAC)

offices, in the locations specified in this advertisement. Remote working is possible and is

negotiated with your manager on commencement. While most of our employees work 2