Learning and Development Lead
Job No:
S145
Location:
Community and Aged Care - Greenslopes
* Are you a Registered Nurse seeking a new direction in your career?
About Us
Spiritus is an Anglican not-for-profit organisation providing caring and supportive services in partnership with government and other support organisations, to respond to identified needs in our community.
Our staff connect with people on every step of their lives' paths, responding with compassion, creativity, commitment and courage to the needs of the infirm and those most at risk in our communities.
Every day the passionate staff and volunteers of Spiritus are working to respond to growing community demand for our services.
Spiritus is committed to social and community welfare issues and aged and community care needs, particularly with respect to disadvantaged members of the community.
Whether it is providing nursing care and domestic assistance in the home, physiotherapy to enable the return of mobility, emergency accommodation for victims of domestic violence, working with foster carers in the care of vulnerable children, a safe caring environment for frail elderly people, wound care for homeless, skills training for young unemployed people or parental education and counselling, Spiritus is there, providing the best quality care available.
The work of Spiritus stretches from Cairns to Coolangatta, from Birdsville to Brisbane and reaches people of all ages with a variety of needs.
You are invited to reflect on our Vision, Mission and Value statements on our web site!
About the Role
The new Spiritus Community and Aged Care leadership structure includes an interesting and challenging opportunity for an experienced Registered Nurse with a strong background and interest in Adult Education to join the Practice Development and Quality team, as Learning and Development Lead.
Reporting directly to the Group Manager, Practice Development and Quality, this role will develop and implement a contemporary learning and development framework and curricula for all care service activities across Community and Aged Care, based on current and emerging health care trends and evidence-based research. A key outcome of this role will to ensure that all Community and Aged Care staff with client and resident contact are fully competent to carry out care activities.
Other key responsibilities include:
- Develop and implement a Learning and Development Plan and Calendar for Community and Aged Care that reflects high quality and contemporary learning and development programs, and includes a methodology for capturing all care-related training activities across the stream;
- Lead a group of Practice and Development Consultants to deliver learning and development functions, including skills gap analysis, development of training units, delivery of training and assessment of competencies.
In addition to responding to the questions below, this role requires the applicant to provide comprehensive responses to the key selection criteria below. Please include your responses in your resume document to attach when you have completed your application. A pop-up window will appear after you click the "Submit Application" button to allow you do this.
Key Selection Criteria
- Current registration with the Queensland Nursing Council, and an ability to demonstrate and apply contemporary nursing practice in a clinical setting.
- Demonstrated advanced clinical nursing skills.
- Tertiary qualifications in Adult Education, or a willingness to undertake these.
- Extensive experience in Adult Education, or Training and Development in Health, Aged Care and/or Community Services.
- Demonstrated ability to develop, implement, and deliver quality education frameworks and curricula.
- Advanced organisational and planning skills in relation to education programs.
- Demonstrated mature interpersonal/communication skills (written and oral) including stron analytical skills and report writing skills and the ability to motivate and influence staff and peers in the achievement of organisational goals.
- High level IT skills in relevant Microsoft Office packages.
- Demonstrated hands-on experience in delivering training.
- Strong leadership skills.
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Possession of a current unrestricted Queensland drivers licence.
To access a copy of the position description, please visit www.spiritus.org.au click on the Join Our Team tab across the top of the page and then click on the Current Work Opportunities With Spiritus. Underneath the role overview will be a link to download a copy of the position description.
For further information about this role, please contact Sally Saeri via email ssaeri@spiritus.org.au
Applications close Friday 19 March 2010