LGBTIQ+ Ageing and Aged Care Coordinator

• Convenient Sydney location
• Flexible working options - work from home and the office
• Role is available Part Time Fixed Term - Contract until 30 June 2022
• Working to improve the health and wellbeing of LGBTI people and communities at the national level.
• Salary: SCHADS Level 5 $83,895.24 - $87,692.80 plus salary packaging

ABOUT THE ROLE

This role is responsible for meeting the key deliverables of the Silver Rainbow (Ageing and Aged Care) program to ensure that they achieve the intended outcomes. You will provide national coordination and develop practice tools and resources for the Ageing and Aged Care sector capacity building activities.

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Essential Criteria

To be successful in this role, you will have:

• Knowledge of educational technologies to support teaching and learning, such as simulated learning and online learning platforms.
• Understanding of Aged Care Quality Standards and current issues in the Aged Care Sector.
• Comprehensive understanding current health issues for LGBTI people in Australia, including policy issues and psychosocial determinants of health.
• Understanding of and commitment to human rights for LGBTI people and communities.
• Experience of working effectively and collaboratively in a small team environment, with minimal supervision.
• Demonstrated understanding of the workings of government (Commonwealth and State/Territory), and of the health sector.
• Experience in planning and implementing strategies and projects to bring about change.
• Robust and contemporary knowledge and understanding of the current health issues affecting LGBTI people, especially mental health and suicide prevention Experience working with people living with a mental health issue
• Good knowledge of the current health disparities and issues affecting indigenous LGBTI, BrotherBoy and SisterGirl communities, especially within the area of mental health and suicide prevention.
• Demonstrated understanding of and commitment to the health and human rights of LGBTI people and communities.

Other Information

ACCESSIBILITY If you have any access requirements or need to submit your application in alternative format, please contact us to discuss. You can apply verbally over the phone or through a face-to-face meeting if you cannot submit a written application. You will need to tell us about your previous work experience, your suitability for this role and your answers to the target questions. We encourage people from diverse backgrounds including people with disability, LGBTI+ people and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to apply.

How to Apply

Please provide a covering letter with your updated CV answering the following questions:

Question 1

Outline your management experience working in the Ageing and Aged Care sector and describe how this will be beneficial to the design and development of the project.

Question 2

Who do you think would be the key stakeholders that this project should engage? Give an example where you coordinated a project with a diverse range of stakeholders, describing how you supported inclusivity, managed conflict and maintained group cohesion to achieve the intended outcomes of the project.

Contact – Emma Smith - emma@360hrnorwest.com.au, using the subject line: Ageing and Aged Coordinator enquiry via NCOSS or call 02 9119 2360.

Interviews will be conducted the week starting 21st April 2021.

LGBTIQ+ Health Australia

LGBTIQ+ Health Australia (LHA) is the national peak health organisation in Australia for organisations and individuals that provide health-related programs, services and research focused on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex people and other sexuality, gender, and bodily diverse people and communities. LHA works in partnership with organisations across Australia to deliver programs across suicide prevention (MindOUT), ageing and aged care (Silver Rainbow), LGBTI peer support and referral (QLife), Disability and Palliative Care.