Moreton Bay, Queensland, Australia
The Home Care Workforce Support Program (HCWSP) is an Australian Department of Health-funded grant. Consortium member Skills Hubs, along with COTA and Skills Generation, have been awarded the contract to deliver the Commonwealth’s Home Care Workforce Support Program across Queensland. Skills Hubs is a not-for-profit organisation with a focus on enhancing people's skilling and career opportunities by engaging with organisations, the community and the VET sector. A key aim of the program is to build the capacity of the sector to attract, train and retain quality staff to work in home and community settings with aging people who wish to continue to live in their own homes safely and well for as long as possible. It is a big and important project that has its origins from the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety’s final report. I'm excited to be here. If you're a HCP provider in the Ipswich, Somerset, Lockyer Valley or Scenic Rim regions, give me a call. I'd love to connect and explore how I might be able to help you attract, train and retain skilled staff for your home and community care workforce.
This is a diverse senior role working with NDS, the national peak body for non-government disability service providers, in a program funded by a Queensland Government grant. The role includes: Policy analysis and development; researching and preparing policy submissions, position papers, tender responses and reports on behalf of NDS; developing, coordinating, delivering and evaluating capacity building and professional development deliverables including projects, webinars, workshops and training materials and consultancy; identifying and developing new organisational business opportunities; providing consultation and advice to disability providers; responding on behalf of NDS to sector queries for information around NDIS policy and practices; representing NDS in industry forums, networks and collaborations and more.
This role involved working as a member of a team at Mercy Community to deliver the NDIA-funded Exceptionally Complex Support Needs ILA Grant in Qld. The role involved developing, coordinating and implementing deliverables around developing the support coordination sector in Qld including webinars Communities of Practice and other networking and CPD opportunities. My role is primarily focused on removing building and facilitating relationships across the sector, breaking down barriers for NDIS participants with exceptionally complex needs, leading and contributing to knowledge exchange, best practice guides, market research, identification of sector patterns and trends and ongoing program monitoring and evaluation. Building the capacity of the support coordination workforce in Qld is a key objective of the grant. I am also involved in providing support subject matter expertise support to Support Coordinators via public presentations, consultancy and resource development and delivery, and delivery of a Crisis Referral Line for NDIS participants who are facing a sudden and unexpected failure of their disability-related supports after hours.
Team leader of small support coordination team. Provision of NDIS support coordination services to caseload of complex participants with psychosocial disability and co-morbidities. Training and support of support coordinators.
As a Community Development LAC I was one of the SME's in NDIS access in the Ipswich office offering expert support to participants and their families seeking access to the NDIS. Delivering information and support to sector stakeholders. Developing and delivering community development programs including scoping studies and programs to promote community access and community attitudes to disability.