Social Club Coordinator na May Shaw Health Centre

Social Club Coordinator

Scottsdale - Full Time

About May Shaw

May Shaw Health Centre Inc. (MSHC) is an incorporated not for profit organisation. May Shaw Health Centre incorporates May Shaw Swansea, and May Shaw Scottsdale.

Our Swansea site incorporates a 50 bed Residential Aged Care Facility, 18 independent living units, an Urgent Care Centre, 3 sub-acute beds, a Lunch with Friends Program and a variety of Home Care packages and services. Our Scottsdale site incorporates a 61 bed Residential Aged Care Facility, a Social Club and a variety of Home Care packages and services.

Our Vision is to support our communities to celebrate life in every stage.   We aim to do this by working with our rural communities to provide responsive and innovative health and aged care services to enable our communities to remain in their local area.

About the Opportunity

Based in Scottsdale, the Social Club Coordinator coordinates day to day operations of the social club program in Scottsdale and Lunch with Friends program based in Swansea, to ensure optimal delivery of support at all times. Supporting a small team of social club and lunch with friends staff, the Social Club Coordinator is responsible for the day-to-day coordination of both programs.  

Key Responsibilities of the Social Club Coordinator include:

• Manage and coordinate the day to day running of the Social Club and Lunch with Friends Programs, in consultation with the Director of Aged and Community Care. 

• Plan and develop Social Club activities alongside staff, volunteers and consumers

• Hold or the ability to obtain a public passenger vehicle licence to provide safe bus transport for
  consumers.
• Complete a visual safety check of the bus before use and maintain the bus in a safe clean manner.
• Maintain social club consumer profiles, documentation, records and statistics as required by May
  Shaw Health Centre
• Communicate and interact with the multidisciplinary team at May Shaw to meet consumer needs.
• Participate in health promotion activities targeting the Day Centre consumers in conjunction with
  other team members.
• Actively participate in quality assurance programs and accreditation of the social club and lunch with friends.
• Personal accountability for the standard of care delivered in accordance with this organisations care
  practice, policies and procedures, Care Standards, and Duty of Care.
• Understand the Charter of Care Recipients’ Rights and Responsibilities in Home Care, and the
  organisation’s requirements on Consumer Abuse and Mandatory Reporting, consumer family and
  organisational confidentiality.
• Support and mentor new staff as necessary and in a team environment, in consultation with the
  Director of Aged and Community Care.

• Ensure WH&S guidelines are followed and be responsible to report incident/near miss, adverse
  events (consumer related incident) and hazard reports in a timely manner. 

• Adhere to infection control measures.
• Undertake other duties relevant to skills and experience, as assigned by the Director of Aged and Community Care.
• Comply with all State and Federal Laws, organisation policies and procedures.
• Participate in and contribute to quality improvement programs and other organisational activities to
  meet accreditation standards and promote quality improvement of services provided.
• Participate in annual mandatory training and ongoing personal and professional development.
• Attend and participate in staff meetings. Report to staff meetings on matters as required.
  

About You

• Demonstrated experience in assisting care recipients to identify goals to promote independence
• Demonstrated experience in providing support and mentoring workers to achieve high quality care

• Demonstrated ability to deliver results – drives and delivers performance against a set of goals. 
• Well-developed written and verbal communication skills. 
• Well-developed organisational and time management skills and the ability to proactively identify and meet expectations in a timely manner.  
• Demonstrated ability to self-motivate and work unsupervised. 
• Demonstrated ability to undertake research, assess findings, draw conclusions and report. 

Selection Criteria

• Demonstrated experience in an aged care environment 

• Certificate III in Individual Support or Certificate IV in Leisure and Lifestyle
• Hold or the ability to obtain a MR (medium rigid)  licence.
• Confidentiality – applies the highest level of confidentiality, understanding that confidentiality is an imperative for clients, their families, fellow employees and MSHC.
• Able to develop strong, professional relationships with all internal/external stakeholders. 
• Adapting to Change – willingly participates in and supports the change process. 

Culture and Benefits

Our Vision is to support our communities to celebrate life in every stage.  We do this by working with our rural communities to provide responsive and innovative health and aged care services to enable our local people to remain in their home community.

Our values guide the way we deliver quality care:

• Collaboration- Communicating with honesty and integrity and partnering with each other and our communities.
• Equity- Celebrating inclusivity and diversity within our communities.
• Respect- Earning respect and trust by valuing individuals, families and communities with honesty and dignity.
• Leadership- To have the courage to provide leadership, governance and management at all levels of our organisation and communities.

If you want to make a significant contribution to our values-based organisation, we can offer a competitive salary with generous salary sacrificing options to maximise your take-home pay, plus extensive well-being services for you and your family.

How to Apply

Please submit your application with a resume and cover letter addressing the above criteria via our website 

We will be interviewing as applications are received - Apply Now! 

https://may-shaw-health-centre.breezy.hr/

For additional information about this role please call the Home Care team – 03 6257 9101

Applications received via Seek will not be considered.

Benefits

Generous salary packaging options maximising your take home pay

EAP counselling and well-being services to take care of you and your family

Collaborative, diverse culture delivering high quality care