AddressAbout the Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission
The Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission (the Commission) was formed on 1 January 2019. The role of the Commission is to protect and enhance the safety, health, wellbeing and quality of life of people receiving aged care.
The Commission is the national end-to-end regulator of aged care services and the primary point of contact for consumers and providers in relation to quality and safety. Our vision is to support a world-class aged care system driven by empowered consumers who enjoy the best possible quality of life.
We aim to build confidence and trust in aged care, empower consumers, promote best practice service provision, promote quality standards and hold providers to account for their performance against the expected standards of care. We seek to promote an aged care system that develops safer systems of care, inculcates a culture of safety and quality, and learns from mistakes, while providing the oversight that can assure the community that aged care services are operating as they should, including working on continuous improvement.
Meet some of our people and learn more about the Commission and our Regulatory Strategy on our website www.agedcarequality.gov.au
About the Team
The SIRS is an initiative to help prevent and reduce the risk and occurrence of incidents of abuse and neglect of older Australians receiving Commonwealth-subsidised aged care and services. It commenced in residential aged care on 1 April 2021 and was extended to home services on 1 December 2022.
The SIRS has 2 key components:
- incident management responsibilities
- reportable incident obligations.
The aim of SIRS is to:
- build the capability of providers to prevent or reduce the occurrence of serious incidents and improve quality and safety.
- require providers to review incident information to drive improvements in quality and safety.
- enable the Commission to better detect, triage and respond to risk across all its functions by utilising SIRS notifications alongside the range of intelligence held by the Commission.
For more information on the SIRA program go to www.agedcarequality.gov.au/sirs
Position Duties
Reporting to an Assistant Director (EL1) in the SIRS Operations, you will be responsible for:
- leading a team of 4-5 team members, including exercising HR delegations.
- support the team through ongoing management of WHS risk mitigation.
- building and sustaining capability of team members to undertake their roles effectively, efficiently, and safely.
- creating a positive and collaborative culture that encourages and acts on feedback.
- making regulatory decisions as outlined in the operational delegation instrument.
- representing your team in decision making forums internal governance forums to identify and implement improvements to the operation of the SIRA program.
- encouraging innovation and manage and lead team/s through changes in business and process improvement.
- contributing to business planning, design of training, developing job aids and other supports
- build and maintain effective working relationships with other teams in the Commission to identify and respond to risk.
Position Eligibility Requirements (Selection Criteria):
To be successful in this role you will need to demonstrate the following:
- Strong leadership skills while responding to sensitive and at times confronting information.
- Demonstrated leadership experience supporting and building the capability of team members to undertake their roles effectively, efficiently, collaboratively and safely.
- Experience exercising HR delegation and sound understanding of the Enterprise Agreement and standard guidelines and procedures.
- Sound understanding of the Commission’s risk frameworks and guidelines and SIRA specific legislation, guidelines and procedures.
- Demonstrated strong communication skills including, preparing reports and briefings.
- Demonstrated ability to build internal partnerships to deliver on the SIRA program.
- Demonstrated experience inputting into governance forums to identify and implement improvements.
- Demonstrated capability in making regulatory decisions.
- Commitment, energy and drive to see that goals are achieved.
- Ability to remain positive and responds to pressure in a calm manner.
Other considerations when applying:
- Capacity to travel when business needs dictate the requirement.
- Willingness be flexible with your working hours to accommodate for varying time zones
- Exposure to or interest in clinical assessment.
Position Notes:
- Salary offered will be between $92,970 - $104,883 per annum depending on skills and experience. In addition, 15.4% superannuation will be paid.
- Only candidates who hold Australian citizenship can apply. Appointment is conditional on successfully completing a national police check. For more information, please visit www.apsc.gov.au/citizenship-aps
- Non-ongoing opportunity will be offered for an irregular/intermittent term. Opportunities will be offered for varying periods up to 12 months with the option to extend to a total of 24 months.
- Merit Pool established through this selection process may be used to fill this or future ongoing or non-ongoing vacancies.
In your application, please provide a statement of claims against the position eligibility requirements (selection criteria) in no more than 600 words, including what strengths you would bring to the role, and a copy of your CV.
Please complete the application and submit by 30 June 2024, 11:59PM AEST.
Please contact our recruitment team on (02) 9633 3*** or ***********@agedcarequality.gov.au for assistance with accessing our website or with lodging your application.
Specific questions about the roles can be directed to Giovanna Stonehouse by emailing ***************@agedcarequality.gov.au with Position title in the subject line.
Diversity and Inclusion
The Commission is committed to fostering a workplace with flexible work arrangements to support a diverse, respectful and inclusive culture for all staff.
The Commission recognises the richness of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures and is committed to the implementation of our Reconciliation Action Plan. The Commission values the unique knowledge and experience of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander employees which strengthens and supports our focus on protecting and enhancing the safety, health, wellbeing and quality of life of aged care consumers.
Further information:
For further information about the Quality Commission, office locations and other related resources, please visit https://www.agedcarequality.gov.au
For more information on the Australian Public Service, please visit http://www.apsc.gov.au/publications-and-media/current-publications/cracking-the-code/factsheet-4 and http://www.apsc.gov.au/publications-and-media/current-publications/cracking-the-code.
