NDIS Senior Clinician
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- Fixed Term Part-time (28 hours per week)
- Social Worker/Occupational Therapist - Senior Clinician (Grade 3)
- Secondment Cover until 31/10/2025
- Specialist Dual Disability (Mental Health/Intellectual Disability) Bed Based Community Unit
- Located at Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital
Austin Health is the major provider of tertiary health services, health professional education and research across three campuses in the north-east of Melbourne and state-wide. We have a highly engaged, diverse and collaborative workforce that is unified by our purpose, which is to help people live healthy and fulfilled lives.
Would you like to be part of an exciting purpose-built unit, working as part of a team with time and resources to focus on the specific recovery needs of consumers? Join our team as secondment cover until 31/10/2025
About TSU:
The Transition Support Unit is a state-wide service that provides rehabilitation and recovery focussed support to people experiencing mental illness and intellectual disability, in a medium/long term residential care setting.
About the role:
The Allied Health NDIS Senior Clinician will contribute discipline specific knowledge and skill to the multidisciplinary team in providing recovery focused care to consumers. The role involves provision of assessment and clinical interventions, active liaison with community service providers and care coordination to support consumer engagement with community and discharge planning.
About you:
You will be someone who has excellent communication skills, with a strong commitment to excellence in patient care. You are someone who wants to make a difference for patients; you’ll bring energy and drive to your work.
Ideally, you will have:
- Excellent communication skills
- Demonstrated clinical experience in relation to assessment, care planning and provision of clinical interventions (specific to discipline – OT or Social Work)
- Knowledge and experience in consumer centred care; supported decision making; and the recovery model
- A keen interest in working in a specialist dual disability service
Our Benefits:
Working at Austin Health means enjoying a strong sense of purpose, engaging in meaningful work every day. There are variety of rewarding benefits for staff within the Mental Health Division including:
- Professional development opportunities
- Discipline specific supervision, embedded as part of support structure overseen by dedicated Discipline Seniors
- Greater take-home pay through generous salary packaging
- A suite of wellness initiatives designed to support you, including discounts on fitness memberships and health insurance, and a comprehensive wellbeing program
- Onsite childcare, easy access via public transport, car parking and end of journey facilities for cyclists
Work with us!
We are committed to cultural safety and health equity for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander People. We celebrate, value, and include people of all backgrounds, genders, identities, cultures, bodies, and abilities. We welcome and support applications from talented people identifying as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander, people with disability, neurodiverse people, LGBTQIA+ and people of all ages and cultures.
If you feel this role is right for you, we encourage your early application. Applications will be reviewed as they are received, and interviews may take place prior to the closing date. This means we reserve the right to close a job ad prior to the advertised closing date.
All appointments are made subject to a satisfactory National Police Check and if required, a Working With Children Check. If you require any reasonable adjustments to the recruitment process, you are welcome to reach out to the hiring manager: Nigel Mitton at Nigel.MITTON@austin.org.au.
Interested in finding out more about this opportunity? Read the position description for further details.
Application closing date: 23 November 2024
