Resourceful Manager offering history of success coordinating and monitoring operations across various departments. Effective leader and problem-solver dedicated to streamlining operations to decrease costs and promote organizational efficiency. Highly committed with hardworking mentality to maintain quality of services and products.
· Oversee the provision of NDIS / Disability Services including:
· Supported Independent Living
· Community Access
· Short-Term Accommodation
· Personal Care and other supports
· Ensure that services are provided in accordance with legislation, regulation, policies, and procedures. Non-conformities and poor performance will be actioned in a timely manner. The SM will ensure that the organisation meets its reporting obligations within required timeframes including but not limited to:
· NDIS plan review reports
· Requests for information
· Ensure that MADECs risk management framework is applied within disability services, including preventative actions to manage risk such as:
· Current support information for all participants including care planning, safety planning and shift planning.
· Current operational risk register.
· Risk assessments for high-risk activities.
· Participant matching.
· Assessing and matching service referrals.
· Coach, mentor, develop and supervise Service Coordinators and Team Leaders.
· Assist with workforce planning to ensure that the organisation maintains and appropriate level of trained workers able to provide continuity of support participants whilst ensuring that workers have an appropriate work/life balance, and the risk of fatigue and burnout is reduced.
· Engage with participants, frontline workers, external agencies, and other employees to ensure that a person-centered active support (PCAS) model is being utilized within services. The SM plays an important role in monitoring and measuring PCAS through participants progress towards achieving goals, internal audits, site visits, team meetings and internal/external feedback.
· Network and engage with stakeholders to promote MADEC services and seek testimonials and feedback.
· Opportunities for improvement will be discussed with the Senior Leadership Team (SLT) and included in MADEC’s continuous improvement actions.
· Ensuring that incidents and behaviors occurring during the provision of services are reported as per MADEC policies.
· Follow up actions for incidents and behaviours will be completed by Coordinators.
· Lead and engage investigations for critical incidents occurring with disability.
· Provide support as part of MADEC’s Senior Leadership Team (SLT)
· Working with the MADEC Board and organisation to develop a strategic plan.
· Implementing strategic plan and objectives.
· Achieving the organization’s key performance indicators.
· Ensuring the needs of clients are met.
· Managing the resources and finances of the organisation.
· Ensuring fair and equitable practices.
· Establishing effective communication with staff and clients.
· Overseeing and monitoring operational plans and activities; and
· Developing and modelling the values and culture of the organisation.
· Complete general administration tasks associated with your role including but not limited to:
· Email management.
· Maintaining registers.
· Internal audits.
· Reporting.
· Other Duties
· Ensure a personal understanding of all relevant policies and procedures and ensure compliance.
· Support a team environment and follow through on tasks delegated to you.
· Undertake other duties commensurate with the position as reasonably directed.
· Perform on call duties as rostered.
· Liaise with stakeholders, participants, families, and workers to coordinate supports for your participants.
· Key Point of contact for all participant supports and appointments.
· Engage with participants, seek feedback about quality of services, action concerns and establish open lines of communication.
· Ensuring that participants and teams are working towards achieving NDIS goals and that supports are focused on building individual capacity.
· Ensuring continuity of supports for individuals by ensuring that support schedules are within NDIS price guide requirements, budget constraints, and agreed upon services within the NDIS Service Agreement.
· Completing NDIS Progress Reports in line with participant NDIS Plan Reviews.
· Approving and monitoring client activity risk assessments.
· Regularly review and update Client Care Plans and Safety Plans for Management approval.
· Attend stakeholder meetings scheduled for your participants.
· Work collaboratively with participant stakeholders to achieve positive outcomes.
· Oversee the Community Access Program at MADEC including 1:1 supports and events.
· Research and provide suggestions for new activities and experiences for community access participants to engage in.
· Coordinating a minimum of 12 ‘VIP’ events per year for participants to enjoy.
· Work collaboratively with the Community Development Manager to oversee the provision of these events incl. event plan, risk assessment, coordination of event, etc.
· Frontline Practice Leadership.
· Review incidents and behaviours on a daily basis to ensure that reportable incidents are actioned within required timeframes by DCYJMA or NDIS Commission.
· Review behaviours to identify trends and support needed by frontline workers to improve their practice.
· Provide relevant behaviour practitioners with a summary of behaviours on a weekly basis.
· Restrictive practice reporting via PRODA will be completed monthly or at the NDIS Commissions request.
· Identify trends and support needed by frontline workers to improve their practice.
· Completed ‘pulse check’.
· Ensure that all participants have documents outlining their care needs e.g. Care Plans, Safety Plans, Shift Plans, Medication Records, CHAP, P-CEP’s.
· Ensure that your team read, understand, and follow this support framework.
· Ensure that your team document the supports they provide to individuals by case-noting each shift.
· Raise concerns promptly if you see anything that violates a person’s human rights or makes them feel unsafe.
· Work with your team and the organisation to identify ways to do things better. Feedback will be provided regularly to the organisation through participation in surveys, working groups.
· Demonstrate a commitment to workplace health and safety.
· On Call Duties as per On Call Roster.
· Personal understanding of all relevant policies and procedures and ensure compliance.
· Participate in all meetings / training as directed by superiors.
· Support a team environment and follow through on tasks delegated to you.
· Network and maintain positive relationships with stakeholders to maintain MADEC’s reputation and expand services.
· Undertake other duties commensurate with the position as reasonably directed.
All duties included related to Front line Support Work and Team Leader.
· Working across location identified as Complex Mental Health.
· Provide Support to Team Leaders of locations.
· Attend all staff meetings.
· Attend stakeholder meetings.
· Provide Observation Supervision and give feedback.
· Frontline Practice Leadership (FPL)
· Focus Staff Attention on Quality of Life
· Facilitating Teamwork and Team Meetings
· Person-Centred Active Support
· Documented Support
· Quality & Safeguarding
· Positive Behaviour Support
· Reporting on RP and training staff to use identify.
· Working with Behaviour Practitioners to reduce the use of RP
· Ensure a personal understanding of all relevant policies and procedures and ensure compliance.
· Provide regular feedback through surveys and other reporting mechanisms.
· Participate in all meetings / training as directed by superiors.
· Support a team environment and follow through on tasks delegated to you.
· Undertake other duties commensurate with the position as reasonably directed.
· Frontline Practice Leadership (FPL)
· Focus Staff Attention on Quality of Life
· Facilitating Teamwork and Team Meetings
· Person-Centred Active Support
· Documented Support
· Quality & Safeguarding
· Positive Behaviour Support
· Reporting on RP and training staff to use identify.
· Working with Behaviour Practitioners to reduce the use of RP
· Ensure a personal understanding of all relevant policies and procedures and ensure compliance.
· Provide regular feedback through surveys and other reporting mechanisms.
· Participate in all meetings / training as directed by superiors.
· Support a team environment and follow through on tasks delegated to you.
· Undertake other duties commensurate with the position as reasonably directed.
· Arrange daily activities for Programs that are capacity building and inline with participants NDIS goals.
· Develop monthly calendar for Programs.
· Record keeping. Progress notes, shift plans, attendance records.
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