National Disability Insurance AgencyAccess Assessor
May. 2024Australia, GeelongRole Purpose
• The APS4 Access Assessor is a team membership position that will work within defined parameters relating to their area of responsibility. The role will be required to apply well-established policy, principles, practices and procedures to achieve outcomes that supports and contributes to NDIA’s objectives to “build a world-leading National Disability Insurance Scheme”.
• The role will be required to provide operational and administrative support that is informed and directed by sound knowledge in assessing areas and may undertake some research and analysis activities.
• The APS4 Access Assessor will have a considerable level of contact with internal and external stakeholders and will be required to communicate with and provide advice on a range of matters to resolve moderately complex enquiries.
Duties and responsibilities
Duties and responsibilities include:
• Reviewing and assessing information to make an eligibility decision and eligibility reassessment in accordance with policy and legislation.
• Researching and reviewing decisions with regard to routine and moderately complex cases with the assistance of staff at higher classification level.
• Responding to phone and email enquiries about access and eligibility, providing thorough information and effective support to internal and external stakeholders.
• Managing incoming correspondence.
• Undertaking a range of data entry and high quality record keeping.
• Advising participants in relation to the outcome of their eligibility decision and eligibility reassessment, their rights and their obligations.
• Supporting Team Leaders to implement improvement strategies to address local quality issues, and deliver on branch goals and strategic objectives.
(Note): the key responsibilities of the role are based on current priorities and may change over time.
Skills required for the position
Skills required include:
Leadership and Accountability
Practical and procedural knowledge across a technical or specialist area.
Responsible for managing competing requests, demands and priorities.
Management Diversity and Span
With reference to appropriate guidelines, procedures and precedents activities may include preparing/assessing/awarding payments for administered programs or facilitating and ensuring correct payments are made by customers.
Job Context and Environment
Apply judgement, knowledge and limited discretion in interpreting and applying legislation, instructions, guidelines and procedures.
Work is moderately complex, relates to a limited range of activities and tasks and requires the application of well-established principles, practices and procedures in combination.
Independence and Decision-Making
Objectives, priorities and deadlines are defined with some latitude in selecting the most appropriate method to complete tasks and how precedents, procedures and guidelines are interpreted and Decisions are within defined parameters and related to an area of responsibility.
Lateral thinking is required to generate viable options and the implementation of solutions.
Stakeholder Management
Liaise with stakeholders and assist to resolve moderately complex issues.
A level of tact, discretion or persuasion is necessary.