Quality and Care Associate (Aged Care) - Care & Living with Mercer

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Mercer is seeking candidates for the following position based in Melbourne:

Quality and Care Associate (Aged Care) - Care & Living with Mercer

Care & Living with Mercer (CaLM) is a unique service helping ageing Australians and their carers understand and more easily access aged care and living options. The guidance and advice is made available to Australians through their employer or Superannuation fund as a benefit, via selected financial advisors or to consumers directly. CaLM has the goal of being the most widely used service of its kind in Australia.

As the Quality and Care Associate you will be primarily responsible for maintaining an up-to-date database of carefully vetted Aged Care providers. This is primarily achieved by building and maintaining connection with care providers, visiting aged care facilities, reaching out to provider contacts and systematically updating the database. The Quality and Care Associate supports a team of Care Consultants by assisting with Plan Reviews, reporting and generating provider information that is accurate and fit-for-purpose.

What is in it for you?

At Mercer, we recognise that our most important asset is our people. We offer benefits and programs that support career development such as professional development support, exam and study assistance and global rotation opportunities which will support and nurture you with every opportunity to reach your full potential.

We also recognise the value of healthy, happy colleagues and promote a culture of care and wellbeing, offering benefits such as flexible working and much more!

• Flexible work arrangements
• Leading training and development program
• Professional environment where your career path really matters and is supported in our global organisation
• Great team environment with energetic and supportive colleagues
• Genuine work life balance

Key Responsibilities:

• Perform due diligence of vetted aged care providers:
  • Manage and maintain the process for conducting due diligence of providers that Care & Living with Mercer will recommend to customers, including updating the due diligence spreadsheet and input fields as required
  • Manage and maintain the database of vetted providers and their associated status (recommend, do not recommend, on hold)
  • Work in partnership with the Care Consultant team to initiate provider due diligence when required for customers and update provider due diligence records when Care Consultants have new information, based on interaction with providers
  • Build relationships with providers’ contacts to build and develop the knowledge, brand and trust of Care & Living with Mercer with these contacts
• Information library: Maintain correct and up-to-date content of the Information Library with changes provided by DCM Media, as well as any changes requested by the Product & Operations Leader
• Customer Plan actions: Maintain the content of the Plan actions and related information based on changes requested by the Care Consultant Leader and Product & Operations Leader
• Periodic reporting: Collect required reporting data from Care Consultants and report in format required for other functions within Care & Living with Mercer, such as Client Growth Leader and Marketing Manager
• Periodically support completion of customer Plan reviews with Care Consultant team members
• Stay abreast on industry news and developments that may impact Care & Living with Mercer’s services

What you need to have: 

• Administration experience, ideally in Aged Care
• Ability to build strong relationships with providers through regular visits, phone interaction and emails
• Excellent verbal and written communication, particularly with negotiation and persuasion
• Outstanding customer service

What makes you stand out:

• Aged care industry experience
• Experience in Allied Health
• Sales experience

About us:

Mercer believes in building brighter futures by redefining the world of work, reshaping retirement and investment outcomes, and unlocking real health and well-being. Mercer’s approximately 25,000 employees are based in 43 countries and the firm operates in 130 countries. Mercer is a business of Marsh McLennan (NYSE: MMC), the world’s leading professional services firm in the areas of risk, strategy and people, with 85,000 colleagues and annual revenue of over $20 billion. Through its market-leading businesses including Marsh, Guy Carpenter and Oliver Wyman, Marsh McLennan helps clients navigate an increasingly dynamic and complex environment. For more information, visit mercer.com. Follow Mercer on LinkedIn and Twitter 

Marsh McLennan is committed to creating a diverse, inclusive and flexible work environment. We aim to attract and retain the best people and embrace diversity of age, background, disability, ethnic origin, family duties, gender orientation or expression, marital status, nationality, parental status, personal or social status, political affiliation, race, religion and beliefs, sex/gender, sexual orientation or expression, skin color, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

Marsh McLennan is committed to hybrid work, which includes the flexibility of working remotely and the collaboration, connections and professional development benefits of working together in the office. All Marsh McLennan colleagues are expected to be in their local office or working onsite with clients at least three days per week. Office-based teams will identify at least one “anchor day” per week on which their full team will be together in person. Note: the changes to our hybrid work policy do not apply to officially designated remote workers and are subject to any works council or local legal requirement.