Resource Planner

**Resource Planner**

**ASO 3**

**Full time position, Monday - Friday**

At Minda, we provide services and support to enable people living with an intellectual disability to reach their personal health and wellbeing goals and live their best lives.

As the state's largest not-for profit provider of disability services, we provide supported independent living accommodation, stimulate continuous personal growth and development through supported employment and various community engagement options as well as allied health and respite services.

As a value-driven not-for-profit organisation, we are passionate about achieving greater outcomes and creating more meaningful experiences for both our clients and our staff.

**Our Values**

**Respect**: We respect the right of a person living with an intellectual disability to self-determination in living their best life.
**Heart**: We demonstrate care and love for those we support in all that we do.
**Opportunity**: We focus on the positive and what people can do rather than what they cannot do to create opportunities.
**Community**: We recognise the importance of community to a person's wellbeing and strive to create an inclusive community where people living with an intellectual disability are valued for themselves and the contribution they make to community.

**About the Role**:
Working within the centralised resourcing team, the Resource Planner is responsible for the coordination of staff rosters from publication to the day of operation plan. In this role, you will ensure rosters are implemented and maintained in accordance with industrial guidelines and person-centred practices. The Resource Planner is an integral position to supporting the continued success of Minda and its clients.

**In this Role you will be responsible for**:

- Forward planning and managing the published roster into the day of operation plan.
- Ensuring rosters are published and implemented within required timeframes.
- Ensuring the Resource Plan considers and maximises labour efficiencies through use of optimal labour mix and/or labour flexibility (part time, casuals) and resource cross utilisation through business units (where applicable).
- Managing and maintaining leave plans, action absences, allowances and staff movements.
- Managing post day of operation resourcing data, including analysing and reporting on data as required.
- Ensuring the resource plan is aligned with client funding, budgets and financial KPI's.
- Ensuring all relevant compliance, legislative and regulatory requirements are met.
- Providing technical expertise with a particular emphasis on the continued development of workforce planning best practice.
- Efficiently planning training and maintaining liaison with training department regarding requirements for all staff training.
- Execute tasks associated with resource planning & coordination as prescribed by the Manager, Resourcing and Workforce Planning.
- Knowledge of workforce management principles, health and safety and roster optimisation
- Experience in coordinating rostering services
- Understanding of the NDIA, NDIS, Disability Service Standards and relevant legislation
- Analytical skills with the ability to manipulate and analyse data and present in an appropriate manner
- Proficient computer skills in Microsoft Suite
- Effective report writing and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to effectively communicate within a team environment and with other departments, families, professionals and stake holders.

**Skills and Qualifications Required**
- A tertiary qualification at degree level in business or a related field. (Desired)
- NDIS Worker Screening Check (or Valid DHS Disability Screening)
- NDIS Worker Orientation Module
- Current Driver's Licence
- Unrestricted Working Rights

**What's in it for you?**
- A sense of value and purpose, working for an essential service provider, whilst significantly impacting the lives of the people we support
- Attractive remuneration including salary packaging (up to $15,900 per FBT) and additional benefits
- A supportive, highly skilled, and collaborative team environment
- Flexibility for work life balance and independence
- Car parking and café facilities, on the gorgeous Brighton site located by the beach

**How to apply**

**_Minda recognises that diversity in our workforce better equips us to support our clients' individualised aspirations and goals. So, if you're a person living with a disability, an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander person, part of the LGBTQIA+ community, from a culturally or linguistically diverse background or unique in any other way we would love to hear from you._