Care Manager

Friendly on-site team
- Permanent full time role
- South Brisbane location

**YOUR Next Employer.... **is a Seniors Living Village offering progressive care in a stimulating and caring environment, where staff ensure residents feel welcome, valued and safe. They have earned a reputation for supporting their elderly residents with care and compassion.

**YOUR Role.... **as a Care Manager you'll be responsible for managing residents’ services and care through case management, staff allocation and rostering; ensuring appropriate support services are responsive to the individual's needs and relevant industry standards while meeting all performance indicators.

**YOUR Responsibilities...**

Management:

- Manage and achieve agreed budget targets and key performance indicators.
- Manage human resources in a fair, equitable and financially responsible manner.
- Collaborate with Community Manager on issues related to service provision.
- Successfully recruit and onboard care staff, ensuring a positive employee experience.
- Monitor training and education of staff to ensure the development of skills and compliance.
- Provide support and supervision to staff, ensuring delivery of their role.
- Rostering of staff and scheduling of resident care services to meet required care needs.
- Maintain documentation consistent with appropriate standards; ensure billings are correct.
- Manage, review, and put correct methods in place for all care-related incidents.
- Ensure care meets accreditation and quality standards, including disaster response planning.
- Management of and participation in the on-call roster as required

Resident Care:

- Consult with residents and their significant others to design, monitor, review, and coordinate care plans following comprehensive care assessment.
- Consult with Registered Nurses on care matters; engaging clinical nursing expertise to assess, plan, monitor and review complex clinical care elements as required.
- Coordinate care services and ensure they are correctly implemented.
- Ensure appropriate handling of medications by care staff, in a community care environment.
- Coordinate service interface with external clinical professionals (General Practitioners, Medical Specialist, Hospitals, Nurses, and Allied Health)
- Maintain comprehensive confidential client files, consistent with legislative requirements.

**About you....**
- Interest in ongoing personal and professional development.
- Passion for collaborating with others and making a difference.
- Empathy for and a desire to work with the aged and their families.
- Demonstrated background in residential and/or home and community care.
- Advanced communication, interpersonal, problem solving and organisational skills.
- A commitment to consumer-centred care and the well-being of the consumer.
- Strong computer, interpersonal, problem solving and time-management skills
- Demonstrated knowledge of the DVA Community Nursing Program, Home Care Packages, Aged Care Quality Standards and Client Rights and Responsibilities.

**Capabilities**
- **Curious**:Keen to be a lifelong learner; draw on others' experiences to keep growing self.
- **Gets Stuff Done**:Breaks things down, organised, collaborates to deliver, asks questions.
- **Decisive**:Knows what is needed, and makes clear decisions.
- **Communicate**:Gets to the matter to simply the complex; listens and asks questions.
- **Adaptability**:Can deal with changing and demanding situations.
- **Personal Attributes**:Humility, caring, self-aware, authentic, and driven.

**Requirements**:

- First Aid and CPR Certificate
- Current Police check
- Unrestricted Australian working rights
- Diploma in Community Services or equivalent discipline

**YOUR Opportunity**In return, you will always be treated with integrity and transparency by a company that actively demonstrates a positive attitude and therefore only engage with enthusiastic, individuals with a great community care spirit. In return for your hard work and commitment, you will be rewarded with a salary based on your experience and be in a business that wants to grow and develop you. No cost uniforms & training and Employee Assistance Program for staff and their families.

If you meet the above requirements and are ready for your next opportunity
**APPLY NOW **now through the link below or call Andy for a confidential discussion on 1300 160215

**Interviewing immediately**

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