Dementia Services Specialist

**Are you passionate about Dementia Care and Awareness?**

**For Purpose Aged Care (formerly Signature Care) is a Not-for-Profit organisation**with a BRAND NEW opportunity for a **Dementia specialist** to join our team.

A friendly, focused and driven team, we look to bring on staff with the right attitudes and values to provide the best **CARE** for our residents:
**C**ollaboration

**A**ccountability

**R**espect

**E**mpathy

If you are able to deliver advice and support to our staff to help enable them to deliver exceptional dementia care and services to our residents, then this is the role for you

You will take a hands on approach to developing our dementia care strategy and oversee key projects to ensure the alignment of service development, training and capacity building in relation to dementia care.

**Your focus in this role will be**:

- Delivering advice and support to enable For Purpose Aged Care to deliver exceptional dementia care and services.
- Leading the implementation of strategic projects which deliver on our ambition to be experts in dementia care.
- Supporting the business to create and maintain strategies for dementia services. These strategies will guide the growth, partnerships and resourcing of dementia services across the business.
- Developing and maintaining strong internal and external relationships to exchange information with key stakeholders to inform strategic and operational decisions related to dementia projects, programs and services.
- Actively supporting and promoting a culture of continuous improvement and change readiness.

**Benefits & Work Culture with FP Aged Care**:
As a purpose led, not-for-profit organisation, our staff’s health and wellbeing are important to us. This is why we have partnered with selected providers to offer employees a growing range of benefits that make sure they get the most out of their working and personal life, including:

- Tax savings of up to $15,900 per year with Salary Packaging (Go Salary)
- Team building events
- Team lunches
- Exclusive staff discounts with JB Hi-Fi, Endota Spa and more
- CommBank Workplace banking
- State of the art technology to help staff work smarter
- Salary sacrificing options with superannuation
- Novated Leasing through Enlist
- HESTA benefits for members
- Access EAP - a voluntary, confidential and free counselling service

**About YOU**:

- ** Bachelor’s degree or higher** in (management/health/allied health/social services sectors) and experience in a similar position or comparable experience.
- ** Extensive experience working with people with dementia** as well as carers and families and an understanding of relevant Service Systems, including My Aged Care and the National Disability Insurance Scheme
- Experience in leading teams in an aged care or care services role.
- Familiarity with wellness programs, including data collection, analysis, and collaboration with general practitioners (Desirable)
- Experience in policy development and contributing to continuous improvement initiatives (Desirable)
- ** Team spirit and the ability to work independently** and across multiple teams
- ** Demonstrated awareness of the organisation’s vision, mission and values**:

- Demonstrated commitment to** cultural diversity,** **equal employment opportunity** and **workplace health and safety** appropriate to the level of the appointment
- Flexibility and multitasking with the ability to juggle many activities and stakeholders
- ** High level verbal communication and interpersonal skills** in order to develop positive relationships within and outside of the organisation.
- ** Excellent organisational and time management skills** with the ability to manage competing tasks and priorities.
- Research skills and ability