Care Manager

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Home Instead Senior Care is a specialist, national provider of high quality in-home care for older Australians. We help with a range of personal and lifestyle needs while providing welcome companionship. We take personal responsibility for providing the best in-home care and support to meet our clients needs and we are committed to addressing the challenges of Australia's ageing population.

Recognised on the Central Coast as the winner in Excellence in Business and Best Care Service 2016, Home Instead Senior Care were also awarded Employer of Choice in 2015 in the Peninsula Chamber of Commerce awards. 

An exciting opportunity exists at our Central Coast office for an energetic, enthusiastic and passionate Care Manager who has the drive and motivation to enable older people to live safely in their own home, whilst maintaining a quality of life that maximises their potential.

Reporting directly to the Director of Client Services, you will provide effective high quality care coordination and case management services to support older people across the Central Coast & Newcastle area. Specifically, you will conduct client care consultations and work with other team members including CAREGivers to provide consistently high quality care services to our clients.

To be successful in this role you will:

• Have experience in aged care, nursing, social work, allied health or a related discipline
• Ideally have some experience in community Home Care Package case management, working with referral networks.
• Demonstrate an ability to coordinate and manage care services for the elderly, their  families and carers,
• Demonstrate an ability to engage and work with service providers from the community, health, allied and social services
• Demonstrate experience and high level competence in case management, ideally including experience with dementia clients
• Have experience in presenting, be an effective communicator and networker, and show excellent customer service skills 
• Highly efficient and organised with proven time management skills
• Demonstrate problem solving skills, and show an ability to work as part of a team
• Self-motivated and outcome orientated, with the capacity to deal with multiple and at times conflicting priorities
• Experienced in identifying appropriate allied services or resources, and build effective relationships 
• Be a leader who demonstrates a high level of professionalism and business acumen

This role requires enthusiasm, passion, and a willingness to work hard, both in the community and with our great office team. It is not a standard nine to five job, and from time to time you will be required to work outside of normal office hours to meet the needs of our clients.

To ensure that we find the best person for this role, the successful applicant will be rewarded with a competitive remuneration and allowances including a car.

If you are looking for a rewarding and exciting role, understand how to work in a growing business, while also providing great empathy and care to create a real difference in the community - then this is a great role for you, and we look forward to meeting you.

Please apply with a letter addressing the selection criteria above, together with a copy of your resume.

Director of Operations, Chris Dawson

Applications will be open until August 3rd, 2018