ACSA National Board
Board Mission
The ACSA Board is accountable for: Setting the strategic direction for the organisation Articulating that through a strategic plan Ensuring sufficient and appropriate resources are available to implement the organisation's business and meet the strategic objectives Establishing processes that provide for excellence in organisational governance Ensuring that Aged & Community Services Australia is effectively represented, by Board members or appointees, in significant meetings with relevant groups.
Board Values
The ACSA Board values accountability, simplicity, transparency and integrity. At a practical level, this means the Board operates in a manner which involves: Mutual respect Honesty Robust debate Hard work.
Current Board Members
Rob Hankins - President
Rob Hankins is the Chief Executive of ECH Inc, a charitable organization and one of the largest aged care service providers in South Australia.
His organisation offers older South Australians places to live and receive services that are integrated throughout the city and some regional areas. There are dozens of scattered sites where residents live in homes or units designed with older peoples' needs in mind. ECH provides an array of services to these residents as their needs dictate. At the point at which they can no longer live independently, ECH also provides 7 locations where Low and High Care services are available in specially designed buildings.
Rob graduated with Bachelor of Commerce and Master of Business Administration. He was born and raised in South Africa, immigrating to Australia via the USA in 1979. He has been involved in acute care hospital management in Sydney, Adelaide, Brisbane and South Africa, and in the early 1990s spent several years managing a charitable organization providing acute care, independent living units and high care on the same campus.
He is a Member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and has served on several state industry association boards and committees. He is currently the chairman of ACS SA&NT.
Ray Glickman - Vice-President
Ray Glickman has held the position of CEO at Amana Living for some six years following a career in local government where he was most recently the CEO of the City of Fremantle.
Ray is an award-winning leader. In 2002, he led the City of Fremantle to win the Alcoa Leadership Award as WA’s leading best practice Council, and in recent years he has led Amana Living to National Awards – ACSA’s National Organisation Award for Excellence and ACAA’s National Employer of Choice Award.
Ray has Masters degrees in Business, Applied Social Studies and Psychology & Philosophy. He is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Management and a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.
Ray is the President of the Fremantle Chamber of Commerce, Chairman of Aged & Community Services WA, a National Director of Aged & Community Services Australia, Deputy Chairman of Therapy Focus Inc and the former Chairman of the WA Maritime Museum Advisory Committee.
Ray has made presentations at numerous conferences around Australia in recent years, and is the co-author of ’50 Ways to Achieve Staff Cover’.
Jill Savell
Jill is the Statewide Director of Southern Cross Care (Tas.) Inc. a leading Aged Care Provider of residential and community care services which is also one of the State's largest employers. The Community Care Division delivers a range of package care to clients living in their own homes including an in home diversional therapy service to those living with dementia.
Her career in Aged Care spans 30 years and includes experience as Nurse Educator and Director of Nursing. Jill believes the move to community care 10 years ago has been the most challenging and rewarding part of her career. Her rounded experience is soundly backed by tertiary qualifications which include a Master of Education, Health Economics, Management and Aged and Social Planning. Jill is also a Fellow of the Royal College of Nursing Australia.
Jill is currently the Vice President of Aged and Community Services Tasmania and a member of the Aged and Community Services Australia Community Care Committee.
Chris Rigby
Chris Rigby has recently been appointed as the General Manager of Scalabrini Villages. Prior to joining Scalabrini he had been the Managing Director of Catholic Healthcare Limited since its inception in 1994. He was also Managing Director of Hawkesbury District Health Service Limited.
Prior to Catholic Healthcare, Chris established the John Plunkett Centre for Medical Ethics at St Vincent's Darlinghurst and the Australian Catholic Health Care Association in Canberra.
Chris began his career in health care as a lecturer in Bioethics at the Australian Catholic University.
Ian Hardy, AM
At the end of 2001 Ian completed a two-year term as President of the national aged-care peak body Aged and Community Services Australia (ACSA).
He is a member of the Board of the Adelaide Northern Medicare Local, and is a former member of the Boards of the Repatriation General Hospital in Adelaide and the International Association of Homes and Services for the Ageing (Washington DC), the South Australian Ministerial Advisory Board on Ageing and the State Disability Advisory Board. He was a member of the Reference Group for the Commonwealth’s Hogan Pricing Review of aged care and of the Australian Government’s Ministerial Advisory Committee on Community Care.
He has spoken at conferences throughout Australia and in New Zealand, Singapore and Spain, and lectured at universities in Ravensburg, Vienna and Berlin.
In 2003 he was awarded a Centenary Medal and in 2004 was the recipient of an Individual Award for Excellence given by Aged and Community Services Australia. In 2005 Ian was awarded the honorary title of University Fellow by the University of South Australia, and in 2007 a Federal Minister’s Award for Excellence in Leadership and Management in Aged Care.
In 2008 he was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) “for service to the community, particularly in the area of aged care as a leading contributor to the development of better services, and for support for opera”. He recently undertook a Churchill Fellowship tour to investigate “consumer-directed” aged care in the UK, Europe and Japan.
