Healthy Ageing Specialist

**Job no**: 495704
**Work type**: Permanent Full-time
**Location**: Knox Civic Centre
**Categories**: Aged & Disability Services

**Your new role**

The **Healthy Ageing Specialist** will lead positive and healthy ageing initiatives aimed at promoting engagement and wellbeing among seniors, focusing on reducing social isolation and enhancing digital literacy. This role involves project planning, building partnerships, overseeing an advisory committee, and implementing programs that foster resilience and inclusivity within the community.

You will hold:

- Relevant tertiary qualifications in social science or a related field and some relevant experience working with seniors, people living with dementia (and their carers, family and friends), community and health services, and governments. Or lesser formal qualifications with substantial relevant experience.

This rewarding position will suit a team player who thrives in a dynamic work environment, and can demonstrate initiative and attention to detail.

This is a Band 6 classified role, remuneration will be $95,488.69 - $104,288.00 (depending on experience) plus superannuation in accordance with the Superannuation Guarantee + optional monthly roster day off

You may be required to undertake position duties outside of normal working hours, as required.

**What you will need to thrive**

The key selection criteria for this role are:

- Demonstrated understanding of the World Health Organization Age Friendly Cities Programme.
- Demonstrated understanding of Dementia and the strengths of, and challenges and issues faced by, people living with dementia, and their carers, family and friends.
- Demonstrated understanding of physical activity programs and community infrastructure that support seniors to improve their physical, mental, and social health and wellbeing.
- The ability to build partnerships and work collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives.
- The ability to build formal and informal relationship networks inside and outside of the organisation.
- Demonstrated ability to plan and prioritise work to meet commitments aligned with organisational goals.
- Ability to plan and collaborate with internal and external stakeholders.
- Demonstrated understanding of the World Health Organization Age Friendly Cities Programme and dementia-related challenges.
- Good project management skills, including proven ability in research, analysis and problem solving.
- Demonstrated ability to hold oneself and others accountable to meet commitments and drive success.

**How to apply**

Please provide a resume and brief cover letter addressing the ‘what you need to thrive’ section from the to outline how your experience and skills relate to the role.

Review the full now via our Knox City Council Careers Page.

**Why Us**

At Knox, making a difference to others and our community is at the heart of everything we do. We are inspired by empowering our community inside and out to thrive and prosper through living our values. We support hybrid and flexible working and embrace diverse and inclusive environments. We succeed by recruiting for excellence through investing in our people, encouraging their unique talents and supporting them to bring their whole selves to work.

We believe in our people and provide a supportive, driven and inclusive culture we are proud of, that focuses on wellbeing.

Beyond that, we also offer:

- accrued days off for full time employees;
- growth and learning opportunities;
- career development;
- reward and recognition programs; and,
- a supportive Employee Assistance Program.

To view the inherent requirements for this position please see attachment below.
- Knox City Council has zero tolerance for child abuse and all forms of harm to children. All children and young people who access our services, programs, events and facilities have the right to feel safe and be safe. This includes spaces owned or managed by Council. We take the wellbeing and safety of children and young people in our care seriously. We maintain a child safe organisation by embedding the protection of children into everyday thinking and practice. All Knox City Council employees, contractors and volunteers are responsible for ensuring children and young people are valued, heard and protected from abuse._

Knox City Council acknowledges our offices are located on the traditional lands of the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung and Bunurong people of the Kulin Nation.

**Advertised**: 10 Oct 2024 AUS Eastern Daylight Time
**Applications close**: 24 Oct 2024 AUS Eastern Daylight Time