See the Person, See the Possibilities

About The Role

Scope has an exciting and unique opportunity for an Operational Trainer to work within our Learning & Engagement Team. This is a new casual role, delivering learning and training in all phases of the employee/learning journey of a Disability Support Worker and includes:

• Role model and continuously embed a culture of adult learning, encouraging self-directed learning
• Design & deliver learning that is targeted and tailored to achieving identified learning outcomes based on Adult Learning Principles
• Promote and role model best practice service provision for new and existing employees in key capability areas of Direct Support Work
• Deliver training and assess for competency in key manual handling activities of disability support work, particularly people moving tasks
• Support the development and delivery of activities for the prevention of manual handling injuries as a priority area, including O’Shea manual handling training program implementation
• Support the delivery of the Onboarding Program in a range of key practice areas of a Disability Support Worker (e.g Manual Handling, Person Centred Practice, Positive Behaviour Support)
• Deliver learning on a as-needs-basis that supports best practice in key capability areas of Disability Support Work

About You

You will be passionate about learning and providing employees with the knowledge, skills and expected behaviour to be best practice workers that are person-centred in all that they do. Ideally you will have:

• Experience in designing and delivering highly engaging learning or training programs based on adult learning principles
• Hands-on experience being a Best Practice Manual Handling Practitioner (desirable)
• Experience in key support areas of Disability Support Work (eg. Administering Medication, Infection Prevention, or clinical service provision, supporting individuals with Behaviours of Concern (desirable)
• Experience training or coaching a frontline workforce in Best Practice Manual Handling OHS and other training programs, ideally in a disability service environment (desirable)
• Demonstrated success in the development of safety cultures that promote workplace health & safety while supporting the achievement of organisational goals
• As a person you will have a 'Can do' attitude, ability to manage your time and workload effectively and efficiently and enjoy working in and being an active part of a team

Scope as an Employer

Successful candidates will enjoy a range of staff benefits including flexibility to suit your work-life balance, continuous development and training, competitive remuneration and salary packaging and purchased annual leave scheme. You will also get the unique chance to work in a sector that is seeing the biggest social reform since the introduction of Medicare.

Take your career on a journey with Scope and work proactively with us to achieve our mission!

Please direct enquiries to John McConachie on jmcconachie@scopeaust.org.au 

If at any time you require us to adjust our recruitment process to meet your individual needs please email careers@scopeaust.org.au, this includes support completing your application online.

Please note, the successful applicant will be required to hold a NDIS Worker Screening Check Clearance and a Working with Children Check. If you have lived or worked for a continuous period of 12 months or more in another country within the last 10 years, a certified International Police Check from that country or countries will also be required.

At Scope, the ongoing safety and wellbeing of our employees and customers is a priority. One of our commitments in response to Covid-19 was to implement a policy requiring all our employees regardless of the job to be fully vaccinated. Full vaccinated under Scope’s policy is 3 doses of a Covid-19 vaccine. Please note that should you be offered a position at Scope; a condition of that offer would be to provide proof that you have had at least 3 doses of a Covid-19 vaccine.

Scope Australia is committed to maintaining a diverse workforce that reflects the diverse needs of the people we support. Scope Australia is an equal opportunity employer and encourages applications from people with a disability, and from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, and the LGBTIQA+ community.