NKPD code: 1343
Aged care services managers plan, direct, coordinate and evaluate the provision of residential and personal care services for elderly people. Aged care services managers perform the following main tasks: - providing overall management and directing the provision of residential and personal care for elderly people; - directing, supervising and evaluating the work of medical, technical, administrative, support, service and other staff; - establishing objectives and defining evaluative and operational criteria for the units they manage; - directing or conducting recruitment, hiring and training of staff; - developing, implementing and monitoring procedures, policies and performance standards for medical, technical, administrative and service staff; - directing and coordinating medico-social programmes and care for elderly people; - directing administrative activities such as budget planning, report preparation and control of expenditure on supplies, equipment and services; - consulting with other health and social service providers, boards of directors and funding bodies to coordinate the provision of services; - advising government authorities on measures to improve health and social services; - representing the organisation in negotiations, at meetings, seminars, public hearings or forums. Examples of occupations in this unit group: – Manager, residential home for the elderly with health care – Manager, residential home for the elderly without health care – Coordinator, community care for elderly people Excludes: – Manager/Head, health establishment – 1342 – Director/Manager/Head, medical establishment – 1342