Optimal Ageing Service Coordinator

**SA Health**
**Job reference**: 900704
**Location**: 5118 - GAWLER EAST
**Job status**: Short Term Contract
**Eligibility**: Open to Everyone
- **Barossa Hills Fleurieu Local Health Network, Gawler East**:

- **OPS3 | Part Time Contract 0.6 FTE | Temporary (up to 30 April 2027)**:

- **Salary: $67,589 - $72,033 p.a (pro rata)**

**Optimal Ageing Service Coordinator - Empower Independence and Wellbeing for Older Adults**

Are you passionate about supporting frail, aged individuals to live independently and improve their quality of life? We are seeking a dedicated and compassionate Optimal Ageing Service Coordinator to join our team and ensure the delivery of client-directed care to promote the health and wellbeing of our clients.

As the Optimal Ageing Service Coordinator, you will play a key role in coordinating services for frail, aged individuals under a client-directed care model. Your responsibilities will include prioritising referrals, conducting assessments and reviews within the client’s home, and developing personalized care plans to support their independence. You will also be responsible for rostering, supervising community support workers, and maintaining a waiting list to ensure services are provided in a timely and efficient manner.

In this role, you will work closely with clients, their families, professional staff, and other home support agencies within the region to ensure seamless care coordination. Your efforts will directly contribute to helping clients remain in their own homes, living as independently and comfortably as possible.

This position requires excellent organisational and communication skills, as well as a strong commitment to providing high-quality, person-centred care. If you are passionate about making a difference in the lives of older adults and are ready to lead a team focused on enhancing their wellbeing, we’d love to hear from you

**Benefits of Joining us**

Access to Fitness Passport, a discounted workplace health and fitness program available to BHFLHN staff and their families.

In addition to the annual salary package, we also offer salary sacrifice benefits, employer superannuation contributions and leave loading.

**Applicant Information**

This is a part time vacancy, working 45 hours per fortnight and salary will be adjusted according to actual hours worked.

**Check(s)**
- DHS Working With Children Check (WWCC)
- DHS National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) Worker Check
- National Police Certificate (NPC) for employment involving unsupervised contact with vulnerable groups required for this position (E.g. aged care employment or work involving vulnerable clients)

**Immunisation Risk for this position is - Category B (indirect contact with blood or body substances)**

SA Health Services are required to implement the Addressing vaccine preventable disease: Occupational assessment, screening and vaccination policy in the workplace.

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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants are encouraged to apply. **Job Ref: 900704**

**Enquiries**

Steven Thorsteinsen
Acting Team Leader Optimal Ageing (Barossa)
Phone: 0475 967 138

**Application Closing Date**

Friday 16th May 2025 - 11.55 PM

**Attachments**

900704 OPS3 Role Description.pdf

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**Flexibility Statement**
The South Australian public sector promotes diversity and flexible ways of working including part-time. Applicants are encouraged to discuss the flexible working arrangements for this role.