Dementia Consultant

Award winning and innovative Aged Care Provider, including recipient of Xref's “Best Workplace Award 2023” and "Engage Change Champion Award 2023" Collaborative and supportive inter-disciplinary environment
- Rewarding position
- Excellent work/life balance - three days per week
- Permanent part-time position

Montefiore is seeking to appoint a Dementia Consultant to complement their extensive and well-resourced multi-disciplinary team for a permanent part-time position.

Reporting to the Dementia Services Manager you will be instrumental in implementing and sustaining an effective dementia strategy, improving the participation in everyday activities, quality of life and care for people living with dementia and their carers.

Along with effective interpersonal skills, leadership capabilities, and strong computer literacy, we will be looking for you to demonstrate (at a minimum) the following:

- Extensive dementia knowledge, including differential diagnosis and factors that exacerbate dementia including comorbidities and their interactions
- Minimum of 4 years of experience working in an inpatient setting treating behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia, as well as various mental health conditions presenting in people 65 years and older
- Extensive knowledge of external community and healthcare services and agencies, tools, techniques and resources available to optimise client, carer and staff wellbeing
- Excellent skills in supporting dignity of risk and harm reduction strategies to support person-centred care
- Sophisticated knowledge of advanced care plans and directives, enduring guardianship, guardianship, power of attorney, use of policy and legislation to promote individuals’ rights
- Practice in a culturally responsive and safe manner across culturally diverse client groups
- Excellent skills in facilitating education for best practice dementia care utilising various training modes
- Sound knowledge about trauma-informed care

**About Us**:
Montefiore is an award-winning, Sydney-based aged care provider, with a proud 135-year history as a non-profit organisation founded on Jewish values. With a workforce comprising approximately 1200 staff employed across an array of disciplines, we support older members of the community to live with choice, dignity and wellbeing through trusted residential care, flexible home care and luxury retirement living.

**What we offer**:
We offer a competitive remuneration package that includes NFP salary packaging, generous leave entitlements and a highly supportive workplace culture with a genuine passion for continuous improvement and excellence.
- All offers of employment are dependent upon successful completion of the organisation’s pre-employment check process. This includes (but is not limited to) the requirement to be willing to obtain a Criminal Police Check._

Applications close: 12 December 2024

For a confidential discussion, please contact Loren Woolf, Senior Talent Acquisition Advisor on 8345 9158.