Practice Specialist
3 weeks ago
Practice Specialist - Dementia & Behaviour Support
Full-Time, Permanent | Parramatta CBD - Hybrid work model
Excellent base salary + NFP Salary Packaging benefits
Are you a compassionate and visionary registered nurse with a specialised expertise in dementia and behaviour support?
Join Uniting’s Customer, Risk and Governance team, to support Senior Services as a Practice Specialist, where you’ll drive transformative, person-centred dementia care across NSW and the ACT. In this role, you’ll apply your clinical expertise to partner with service teams, implement evidence-based practices, and foster continuous improvement in care.
About the Role
As the Dementia and Behaviour Support Specialist, you will be pivotal in designing, implementing, and maintaining Uniting’s dementia and behaviour support framework. This role involves collaborating with service delivery teams to enhance processes, systems, and staff capabilities that foster evidence-based and person-centred care. You will consult as a Subject Matter Expert, guide practice improvement, and partner with respected organisations such as Dementia Australia to bring cutting-edge knowledge and programs to our services.
Key Responsibilities:
- Subject Matter Expertise: Provide consulting and advisory services in dementia and behaviour support across service teams, ensuring Uniting remains at the forefront of evidence-based practices.
- Practice and Policy Development: Shape and refine practice frameworks, policies, and standards, ensuring they align with contemporary dementia care and behaviour management approaches.
- Capability Building: Coach, mentor, and empower staff to effectively manage behaviours, supporting a culture of continuous review and improvement.
- External Collaboration: Partner with leading organisations, such as Dementia Australia, to design and deliver impactful programs, and liaise with industry professionals to stay updated on advancements.
- Research and Development: Engage with research teams to shape studies that inform and drive best practice in dementia care and use program outcome data to guide improvements.
- Innovation in Service Delivery: Explore new models of care, contributing subject matter expertise to proposals and tenders that will broaden and deepen Uniting’s dementia and behaviour support services.
About You:
You are a Registered Nurse with postgraduate qualifications in dementia or behaviour management, and have:
- Extensive Clinical Expertise: At least 5 years of experience, including direct involvement in dementia and behaviour support management.
- Change Management Skills: Proven experience in coaching and change leadership, with the ability to influence outcomes even with indirect reporting lines.
- Strategic Thinker: Exceptional problem-solving skills and a talent for balancing priorities in a complex organisational environment.
- Collaborative and Communicative: Strong interpersonal skills and comfort with electronic documentation systems, ensuring seamless collaboration with diverse teams.
- Customer-Focused and Flexible: A commitment to delivering customer-centred care, with the adaptability needed in a rapidly evolving aged care environment.
Desirable
- Postgraduate Qualifications: Advanced qualifications in dementia, behavioural management, or equivalent areas of aged care specialisation.
- Professional Membership: Active membership in relevant professional organisations, keeping you connected with the latest sector developments.
- Experience in Large Organisations: Previous experience in large, complex environments, managing competing priorities and navigating organisational structures.
Why Uniting?
At Uniting, you’ll be part of a forward-thinking team dedicated to advancing aged care through a person-centred, evidence-based approach. Our work is guided by our values of inclusion, compassion, and respect, and we offer an inclusive workplace where every voice is valued. With the scope to influence positive change and contribute to Uniting’s commitment to excellence in care, this is a role where your expertise truly makes a difference.
Ready to drive change in dementia and behaviour support? Apply today and be part of a passionate team at Uniting
To review the role responsibilities in greater detail please review the comprehensive Position Description by clicking on the link below
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For all questions, please don't hesitate to contact Louise Massie via email at mmassie@uniting.org
What We Offer You
- A rewarding career with a leading human services organisation.
- Up to $18,550 NFP salary packaging available.
- Access to our U rewards program with exclusive discounts.
- Flexible work hours for work-life balance.
- Access to Fitness Passport – Live your best life.
- A supportive and inclusive and collaborative work environment.
- Opportunities for professional growth.
- Purchase of additional leave.
How to apply: Send your CV and a brief cover letter highlighting why this role appeals to you - Applications reviewed upon receipt.
When you’re part of Uniting NSW.ACT, you’re part of a diverse, purpose-led team of people who are really making a difference to the world around them.
We contribute to the work and mission of the Uniting Church in NSW and the ACT through social justice advocacy, community services and spiritual care. We provide care and support for people through all ages and stages of life, with a focus on people experiencing disadvantage and vulnerability. Our purpose is to inspire people, enliven communities and confront injustice.
Uniting leaders and employees work together to create a culture that is safe, inclusive and person-centred. We bring this to life every day through our values: compassionate, respectful, imaginative and bold.
Uniting acknowledges the continuing sovereignty and rich cultural diversity of Australia’s First Peoples. We pay our respects to all Elders – past, present, and emerging – and to all First Peoples on whose lands we live and work.
Uniting is a Child Safe Organisation committed to promoting the safety, wellbeing and inclusion of children and young people.
Employment with Uniting is subject to satisfactory background checks which may include a national police check, reference checks, working with children checks, and NDIS checks.
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