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Melbourne, VIC, AU

The position of Practice Leadership Learning Partner is responsible for partnering with Melba’s Senior Practitioner, Outcome Specialists and the Chief Home, Community and Living Officer to support and build Practice Leader capability at MelbaAchievements:Support Personal Relationships and Intimacy Practice Leadership Program - included co-production and.

Primarily responsible for partnering with Outcomes, Practice & Quality and PeopleCulture to uplift and maintain leadership capability at Melba.The role also supports other People & Culture projects as required. Reported directly to the Chief People & Culture Officer with dotted reporting line to the General Manager Practice, Quality and Safeguards.

Providing human-centred workforce development and change management consulting services to clients in the Community Services Sector Services include: Learning Needs Analysis, Co-design/Co-production, Learning Design/Development (Blended), Learning & Project Evaluation/Reporting, Competency-based training, Group Facilitation, Content design/development.

Workplace Mentoring Advisor for the HATSEEP Project. Engaged to support the capability uplift of emerging and existing community sector leaders across aged care, disability and mental health. This is part of a workplace learning pilot for the Advanced Diploma of Community Sector Management.Designed and facilitated mentoring PD and reflective practice.

Canterbury, Victoria, Australia

Collaborated with the Authorised Program Officer to map change impact, conduct stakeholder empathy mapping and design a 3-stage NDIS Transition Learning Program to support changes to reportable incidents, restrictive practices and behaviour support. Resulted in practice uplift in RP identification and ARP/URP reportingCollaborated with the National.

Healesville, Victoria, Australia

Interpret NDIS plans and support requests in line with NDIS rules and operational guidelinesCoordinate funded and mainstream supports for NDIS participantsLiaise with support teams (including allied health professionals, NDIA and mainstream organisations) to help participants achieve their goalsCreate support coordination service agreementsBuild.

• Newly created role. Reported initially to the Executive General Manager Knoxbrooke Enterprises and then to the Manager - Supported Employment Services - 1 Direct report (TSO)
• Coordinated productivity based (supported wage system) assessments - including liaising with external assessment contractors and internal operations teams.
• Retained oversight over remuneration for the supported workforce (approximately 120 staff across two sites) - liaising with Operations Managers and the Executive General Manager to coordinate sign-offs for wage.
• Conducted development discussions with supported employees. Oversaw development plans and delivery of support programs
• In collaboration with Operations Managers oversaw all assessment criteria and related documentation for supported employee work tasks.
• Oversaw partnership with Box Hill Institute and coordinated supported employee engagement with vocational training initiatives (Cert II Work Education - Process Manufacturing, Cert II Work Education - Horticulture.

Reported to the Executive General Manager. Worked with the General Manager, Operations and Disability Services Teams to scope and implement a new Training and Support Function within Knoxbrooke Enterprises to help supported employees realise their full potential at work. This included designing a practice framework, process documentation and toolkits to.

Maternity leave position - Plan, implement and coordinate the PTA Program under the broad direction of the Director (Medical Student Programs) within the Eastern Health Clinical School. The Patient Teaching Associate (PTA) program is an innovative education model designed to assist the development of patient-centred clinical skills in students. It provides.

Projects have included:Leadership development coaching across private sector and government 360 feedback & development discussions with senior leaders as part of a national 360 degree feedback project with a large organisation in the energy sector.Executive Development Centre Assessor - large scale leadership development initiatives for senior leaders at.

Outer-East

Supported the roll-out of the NDIS through participant (end to end) and community sector engagement. Access, Pre-planning, Planning, Implementation, Support Coordination and Reviews. Facilitated functional capacity assessments and discussions to identify participant goals and support needs. Built NDIS plans. Liaised with a wide range of external.

Cheltenham

Facilitated co-produced learning programmes aimed at developing the mindsets and skills required to live a mentally healthy and meaningful life. Programs are built around a strengths based model of Recovery and include: Food & Mood, Assertiveness Skills, Understanding Anger, Understanding Self Harm, Understanding and Planning for the NDIS. Programs have.

Melbourne, Australia

• Learning/Communication Content Design/Development | Program Facilitation | Organisational Coaching | Feedback & Assessment | Project ManagementProject highlights:
• NDIS Psycho-social disability project | Mind Australia – Drew on co-production approach to design 9 week pilot program
• ‘Working for Everyone’ project | Brotherhood of St Laurence - In response to research findings, designed and developed content to create an interactive online reporting tool and suite of online resources to support.

Coldstream

Role Scope: Reporting to the CEO, responsible for driving organisational culture through the effective recruitment, induction and coordination of paid and volunteer staff. Provided leadership coaching to senior managers and counselling/meditation services to staff. Responsible for assisting the CEO with IR matters, training and development and other.

Overview - The Talent Management Practice consists of a team of organisational psychologists, career advisers and coaches and consults to organisations nationally in the effective attraction, retention, development and transitioning of staffRole scope:Reporting to the Operations Manager, responsible for managing a caseload of coaching and outplacement.

Overview: Plum Financial Services is an Australia Corporate Superannuation Administrator employing over 160 staff encompassing customer service centres, insurance and benefit processing teams, account representatives and other corporate functions.Role scope: Reported to the Operations Manager, contracted to conduct a strategic needs analysis of the.

Overview: Sarina Russo is a private national Job Network and Recruitment Firm providing employment services under government contract based on Centrelink referral.Role scope: Reported to the Operations Manager, responsible for meeting KPI's relating to placement of job seekers referred from Centrelink through job search training, case management/coaching.

Project-managed the implementation of FSR (Financial Services Reform) into the business including auditing for compliance and overseeing change management aspects of the project.

Overview: Mercer Wealth Education and Communications managed all of the employee education programs and communications associated with corporate superannuation funds under administration, including communications at point of outsourcing associated with large-scale change management projects.Role scope: Reported to the Director. Joined in 2000 as a.

• Financial Writer (AXA) – 2 mths – Technical writing for annual reports, retail and wholesale reporting and investor newsletters
• Project Coordination (Anti-Cancer Council) – 4 mths – Designed and wrote work procedure manuals. Project coordination for the 5th World Congress of Psycho-Oncology and to support patient services trainers
• Project Coordinator (Cisco Systems | Trowbridge Consulting)
• Project Coordinator (Goldman Sachs IPO Communications - London) – 4 months – event management and project coordination

Overview: DollarPlan Financial Group is a national boutique financial planning practice, which hold's it's own licence and operates out of Melbourne, Sydney and Canberra. Role Scope: Reported to the Director. Joined the business in 1998 to assist in running the non-financial planning aspects of the business including coordination of business operations and.

Clients included: Maroondah City Council, Australian Ballet, Opera Australia, Festival in the FoothillsRole scope: Australian Ballet & Opera Australia (Sydney) - contracted to design a training program to induct new box office staff for up and coming ballet and opera season - focusing on system training (PASS2)Maroondah City Council/Festival in the.

• Direct reports: 8 staff
• Team Management: Recruited, managed and trained a box office team of 8 staff incuding managing associated wages & telemarketing budgets and coordinating employment paperwork.
• Onboarding | Training | Volunteer Coordination: Designed and delivered induction and onboarding training, coordinated volunteer staff helping out with mail outs and other administrative duties.Selected for a secondment.

Bachelor, Economics (Double Majors: Law And Economics)

Activities and Societies: Theatre Club

Fd Diploma, Financial Planning

PS 146 Qualified

3Q Practitioner Training (Iq,Eq,Sq)

Cert Iv, Workplace Training & Assessment

Solutions Focused Coaching & Tools For Talent

Peter Geyer And Associates

Enneagram Studies

Life Coaching & Business Coaching

Graduate Diploma Of Psychology (Psych 1B Completed)

Describe key concepts underlying core psychology topics, including: personality, motivation, emotion, sensation and perception, and social.

Accredited Safety Intervention Trainer