About the role
To support ARRCS with the integration into APY Lands Aged Care we are currently sourcing an experienced and qualified Clinical and Education Project Officer to project manage the education and clinical governance across both our residential and home care services. This role will see you supporting aged care services in both our residential facility Tjilpiku Pampaku Ngura located in Pukatja, in additional support the surrounding communities of Pipalyatjara, Mimili, Kaltjiti, Iwantja and Amata.
This role is being offered on a maximum term assignment of 6-months with an ASAP start. During this time, you will work full time hours of 38 hours per week at an annual salary equivalent of $140,000 gross PA.
As the Clinical and Educational Project Officer, you will firstly be an experienced Registered Nurse, with demonstrated clinical practice within Aged Care and ideally within remote indigenous communities. In addition, you will demonstrate experience in auditing, reviewing both clinical and governance operations and be able to report and identify knowledge and skill competency gaps and work with the greater ARRCS clinical and education teams in the project planning to rectify.
As the successful candidate you will hold an unrestricted to AHPRA registration as a Registered Nurse or higher, you will also hold post grad qualifications in nursing education and / or safety. You will be experienced in the observation, revision and advisory of clinical governance in aged care and be comfortable working with and reporting to senior staff.
In addition, you will be comfortable to regularly travel to remote APY Lands within South Australia, with onsite lengths of weeks at a time to fulfill the requirements of the role. This will include travel via 4WD and small, single engine aircrafts.
Contract Terms and Compliance
This role is being recruited on a maximum term assignment of 6-months. Ideally you will reside within the Northern Territory, however, flexible on home base location with the understanding that regular travel of long duration will be spent in APY Lands.
In addition, as an aged care employee, please note the mandatory compliance requirements needed.
- National Police Check – Lodged or dated withing 3-months of agreed start date.
- NDIS Workers Screening Check – Lodged or received prior to commencement date.
- Current year flu vaccination.
Skills and experience
To be considered for this role, we would require you to have the following:
- Bachelor of Nursing
- Post graduate qualifications and or equivalent experience in nursing education and/or clinical quality and safety.
- Demonstrated ability to use technology in particular care management systems
- Experience in building and maintaining relationships with frontline staff and a range of internal and external stakeholders to support collaboration of activities to achieve positive shared outcomes.
- A pro-active attitude and ability to educate, train, support, guide and mentor others in the workforce.
- Strong time management skills with a demonstrated ability to use initiative and be self-motivated, with the ability to meet deadlines and work with minimal supervision; and
- Demonstrated ability to respond and adapt to competing priorities whilst working unsupervised.
- Ability to empathise with Aged People, their families and Personal Carers.
- Ability to travel to a remote area, driving long distances in a 4WD and/or on small, chartered planes and stay on site for a minimum of 4 weeks preferably with an 8 week on, 2 weeks off arrangement until contract ended.
About ARRCS
Australian Regional and Remote Community Services (ARRCS) is not-for-profit aged care and community service provider who deliver services including Residential Care, Home Care, School Nutrition and Early Learning Childhood programs throughout the Northern Territory and South Australia.
Our Vision is passionately pursuing new ways in delivering care where people and communities flourish and lead meaningful lives.
Benefits and perks
As an ARRCS employee, you play an important and rewarding role in helping vulnerable people to live life in all its fullness, every day. As ARRCS are a Not-for-Profit Organisation, we also have a host of employee benefits including:
- Unlimited training library, with free and 24/7 access to over 70,000 self-paced courses.
- Opportunity to work with and develop with a large skilled in-house Clinical Education team.
- Opportunity to grow and develop clinical leadership skills whilst mastering the Aged Care legislation.
- Wellness & Employee Support Services
If you would like more information on this role, please refer to the attached Position Description or contact our Talent Acquisition team via people@arrcs.org.au or phone 08 8982 5200.
We strongly encourage Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander people to apply.