Aps Level 6

**Job Reference Number **23-SDDIV-16621

**Classification **APS Level 6

**Job Title **Departmental Officer

**Division **Service Delivery Division

**Branch **SA WA Branch

**Section **Aged Care and Health REPR Section

**Location **Adelaide, SA

**Status **Ongoing

**Employment type **Full-time

**Salary Range **$88,439 - $99,772

**Contact Officer Name**:Alice McDonald
**Phone**:0418 830 458

**Eligibility**
- To be eligible for employment with the Department of Health and Aged Care

applicants must be an Australian citizen at the time an offer of employment is made
- An applicant’s suitability for employment with Health will also be assessed through a

variety of pre-employment check processes, such as:

- Satisfactory completion of an Australian Federal Police criminal history check,

and where relevant a Working with Children and Vulnerable People Check.
- Completion of a medical declaration and pre-employment medical (where

required).
- Providing evidence of qualifications.

**Division Responsibilities**

The Service Delivery Division incorporates staff in all State and Territory offices and in

National Office. The Division is responsible for supporting local implementation and delivery

of a range of Australian Government aged care and health programs, while managing

relationships and partnerships with key internal and external stakeholders. The Division

contributes to program management, policy and program development, as well as review

and evaluation of aged care and health programs. Key areas of responsibility include:
stakeholder and consumer engagement, aged care system navigation and access, aged care

vaccine rollout, aged care emergency preparedness and response, and regional aged care

stewardship.

**Branch Responsibilities**

The South Australia and Western Australia (SA/WA) Branch is responsible for local

implementation of a range of Australian Government health and aged care programs. Our

offices in Adelaide and Perth have a key role in delivering programs and services, while

managing relationships and partnerships with key internal and external stakeholders.

**Section Responsibilities**

The South Australian state office works collaboratively with the other state and territory

offices as well as policy, program, regulatory and corporate areas of the Department to

achieve the Government’s health and aged care priorities. Responsibilities of the sections

within the South Australian office include:

- Provision of local knowledge, analysing local and regional aged care sector needs,

service level analysis, program management, aged care system stewardship,

relationship management with stakeholders, local solutions brokering, and

assistance in policy development and input into program design and evaluation.
- Delivery of aged care regulatory functions, including management of residential aged

care places, planning and monitoring of supply, and the Aged Care Assessment

Program Reconsiderations under Aged Care Act 1997
- Program assurance of health and ageing grants administered by the Department of

Social Services’ Community Grants Hub on behalf of the Department
- Appropriate support for the aged care sector to respond to COVID-19 and other

emergency situations In addition, the Aged Care Assessment Program

Reconsiderations function is also based in the SA office and is undertaken nationally

on behalf of the Program area and the state office network.

**Key Responsibilities**

As an APS6 Departmental Officer in the SA Office, you will work collaboratively as part of a

team to perform a range of functions which may include stakeholder engagement activities,

program management, reconsideration of aged care assessment decisions, local Aboriginal

health and ageing program assurance, and stewardship of the aged care system within

be prepared to move across different teams over time. Requirements of the role/s may

include one or more of the following:

- Representation on local fora to ensure key stakeholders understand and can have

input into government priorities, reforms, and programs.
- Stakeholder and community engagement which may include:

- gathering perspectives with a community and regional focus, and providing

and receiving information on health and aged care programs, policies, and

priorities
- direct communication with aged care consumers, clients, family members

and service providers to resolve requests for reconsideration of aged care

assessments, and/or
- promoting best practice in delivery of aged care programs through proactive

engagement with providers and other stakeholders and providing advice to

the aged care sector in SA.
- Assistance in policy development and program design and evaluation, and program

assurance activities that support policy and program areas to know the

Department’s program responsibilities and priorities are being met.
- Analysis of evidence from a range of sources, as well as interpretation of legislation

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