Apply: Disability Plan Coordinator (Brisbane and Ipswich)

Reference: BH-173083-3
About the Client:

Government agency tasked with making life easier, accessible, and equitable for thousands of individuals and families across Australia. Currently seeking multiple Disability Planners to join their busy team for a casual 12-months temporary assignment.


About the Role

As a Disability Planner, you will support the planning network through the delivery of core initiatives and projects to enhance capacity and capability to engage meaningfully with participants. In addition, your key duties are as follows:
  • Analysing participant records using a range of policies, practice guidance and legislation to make funding decisions in relation to participant plans to help reduce overspending
  • Working with participants and their representatives via telephone communication, to identify current circumstances and spending patterns
  • High quality record keeping, including competency with IT systems, adhering to process guidelines and standard operating procedures
  • Research and review decisions and manage moderately complex cases with the assistance of staff at higher classification level
  • Completing administrative and data entry tasks relating to participants
  • Contributing to the achievement of key performance indicators, including planning targets

 
About You

To be successful in this role, you must have:
  • Previous experience in a Planner, Support Coordinator, Local Area Coordinator, Disability Employment Consultant, or similar roles
  • Background in disability or public sector is highly regarded
  • Strong communication and interpersonal skills (written and verbal)
  • Ability to manage difficult conversations
  • Competent IT and data analytical skills
  • Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
  • Proficiency in using MS Office products
  • Strong problem solving skills and ability to manage multiple tasks with strict deadlines


Benefits
 
  • ASAP Start Date pending clearance
  • Casual 12-months Temporary Assignment 
  • Full-time hours, Monday to Friday
  • $43.82 per hour + super
  • Multiple locations available:
    • Brisbane, QLD
    • Ipswich, QLD
    • Bundaberg, QLD


*** Please note the successful candidate for the role must hold Australian Citizenship and be willing to complete federal police check **


At Chandler Macleod, we are committed to fostering a diverse workforce where everyone is welcome. We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, women, people living with a disability and the LGBTIQA+ community.

You can read more about our commitment to diversity and inclusion at https://www.chandlermacleod.com/diversity-and-inclusion
Company Background:

Chandler Macleod is a highly regarded and well established recruitment organisation, part of RGF Staffing and Recruit Holdings, the fourth largest staffing network in the world! We partner with over 3500 companies globally providing job hunters with endless opportunities to find and succeed in their work.

Chandler Macleod knows what it takes to recruit, select, and retain the best people. We’re in the business of understanding how people tick because we’ve been digging deep into people’s needs and motivations since 1959.

We uncover the ‘BestFit™’ for employers and job hunters alike by looking beyond the CV’s and JD’s. This allows us to match candidates to jobs that bring out their best and discover people that can make businesses boom.

We’re a team of flexible thinkers and detail obsessors, who believe that the right fit can lead to a happier life. Because when you really get people, you really open up a world of opportunity.

There are several brands that make up Chandler Macleod, these include our Staffing business, our Consulting business, our xPO Talent Solutions business and our Managed Services business.

You can learn more at our website: www.chandlermacleod.com

We are Chandler Macleod. We get people.

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