Position Summary
Tangentyere Council
Aboriginal Corporation (TCAC) is a community controlled Public Benevolent
Institution delivering human services and social enterprise activities for the
benefit of Aboriginal people from the Alice Springs Town Camps, urban Alice
Springs, and Central Australia.
Tangentyere Aged & Community Services (TACS) is part of
the Social Services Division, which aims to improve the quality of life of
Central Australian Aboriginal people and the wider community through providing
innovative, responsive, and culturally safe services.
TACS provide CHSP,
HCP & NDIS home care & centre-based services to an extremely diverse
and vulnerable cohort of people, where health is more than often secondary to
other social determinants. With more
than 7 languages spoken and over 100 clients, TACS continues to uphold quality
service provision and maintains its strong ties with members of the Alice
Springs and wider community.
This is a
senior position and will be responsible for providing direct personal care and
support to frail, aged people, and people living with disability in the
community. In addition to this, the successful candidate will also provide
mentorship, training, review and reporting for Community Support Workers, and
will lead and support the Care Team where required.
As part of your role, you will be
working with children, people with a disability and people who are vulnerable.
It is your obligation to always ensure their safety and report any concerns in
line with our duty of care obligations. We have zero tolerance when it comes to
abuse of any kind and will take disciplinary action, including and up to
termination of employment, should we determine that abuse has taken place or
there has been a failure to report any suspected or alleged abuse.
Responsibilities
- ·Support the Care Services department employees
in daily operations.
- ·Provide mentorship, training, review and
reporting for Community Support Workers.
- ·Provide personal care, support, and assistance
to people who use the service.
- ·Assist people with whole-of-life support and
advocacy in a responsive, culturally safe, and flexible way, supporting them to
access mainstream services.
- ·Monitor people’s care needs and report changes or
issues.
- ·Assist with achieving quality management
objectives across the organisation.
- ·Assist with achieving safeguarding objectives
across the organisation.
- ·Assist with achieving compliance objectives
across the organisation.
- ·Other reasonable duties as required.
Qualifications and Selection Criteria
Required
- ·Experience and/or qualifications in supporting
frail, aged people or people living with disability.
- ·Proven leadership and mentorship skills.
- ·Proven experience training others.
- ·Ability to prioritise and organise workload.
- ·Basic literacy, numeracy, and administration
skills.
Current NT Drivers
Licence, NT Working with Children (Ochre) Card, and satisfactory Police Chec
