Home Support Services Coordinator

Salary sacrifice - earn up to $15,899 tax free per year
- Join a progressive and growing community organisation at an exciting time.
- Full time - Permanent position

**About the organisation**

Set within beautiful grounds in the seaside suburb of Hove, Alwyndor delivers on-site residential living and support at home services, along with therapy and wellbeing services that empower the people in our communities to live healthy, engaged and fulfilled lives.

Alwyndor’s welcoming, high quality facilities include 144 residential, dementia, respite care beds, transitional and care awaiting placement beds, together with allied health, therapy and wellness programs and home support packages that support people in Adelaide’s southern metro communities.

**About the Role**

An opportunity exists to assist older people and their families to design and implement various levels of high-quality home care services in consultation with the Home Support Services team.

**Responsibilities include but are not limited to**:

- Providing advice to consumers and their carers and or advocates, regarding the selection, self-management, and monitoring of services under a CDC model
- Working with eligible consumers and their carers and or advocates, to identify goals, provide holistic assessment, care coordination and monitoring of services for older people using an individual, consumer focused approach.
- Meet with consumers/families and or advocates to discuss future care needs if a Home Care Package is unable to provide care for the consumer long term and is unable to meet the consumers’ needs.
- Ensuring effective relationships are developed and maintained with stakeholders, including but not limited to:

- Consumers and families and or advocates
- Service providers
- Government agencies
- Maintaining contact with consumers and/or families/ advocates to ensure that services and budgets are monitored and re
- assessed as appropriate
- Maintaining all service plans in the home with every service on the plan clearly describing roles and responsibilities of each person involved in the consumers care including carers and advocates.
- Certificate III in Aged Care, Community Services or equivalent (desirable not essential)
- Current registration as a Registered Nurse/Enrolled Nurse/Allied Health (desirable not essential)
- Demonstrated knowledge of relevant legislation, including funding and policy protocols, standards, and processes
- A basic knowledge of legislation in aged care and the legal implications of actions taken, e.g. Elder Abuse, Code of Conduct for Unregistered Health Practitioners and duty of care.
- Demonstrated experience in all aspects of case management including comprehensive assessment, re assessments, planning of services within budget, problem solving and the provision and evaluation of services for older people
- Highly developed interpersonal, communication and negotiation skills to maintain positive working relationships with stakeholders, handle sensitive matters with tact and diplomacy and maintain a high level of confidentiality.
- A current drivers' licence.

You must also be willing to obtain a National Police Certificate before commencing employment as well as a functional assessment.

Alwyndor is a family friendly community organisation and understands the importance of work/life balance.

Alwyndor is an equal opportunity employer. People from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent and people with disabilities are encouraged to apply. Nursing and Health Professional Students are encouraged to apply.

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No recruitment agencies please.