Community Development Worker - Community
Clayton, VIC, AU, 3168
Monash Health is a great place to work
Monash Health is Victoria’s largest and most comprehensive health service. For more than 170 years, Monash Health and its predecessors have provided safe, high-quality healthcare and service for people at every life stage.
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Our Journey:
Primary Care Support Team, as part of the Community Assessment and Response Directorate offers a variety of programs that assist individuals to manage chronic health conditions, covering Greater Dandenong and Cardinia Casey, focusing on the assessment and delivery of client focused care.
The team consists of Allied Health Assistants, Care Coordinators, Community Development Workers, Counsellors, Diabetes Nurse Educators, Dietitians, Exercise Physiologists, Psychologists, Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists, Recreational Therapists, Social Workers, and Podiatrists. The team is committed to working with communities, families and individuals who have poor health outcomes and to providing high quality, multidisciplinary programs which embrace client centred care, evidence based practice and the Social Model of Health.
We are looking for a Care Coordinator on a part time, 0.6EFT (3 days per week) fixed term basis until 28/02/2026.
A Day in the Life:
Monash Health Primary Care Support is a dynamic service with dedicated, highly skilled multidisciplinary team. The Care Coordinator will provide individual evidence-based assessment and intervention to clients with a wide range of clinical presentations, often presenting with multiple co-morbidities. The successful candidate will work in collaboration with the multidisciplinary team and be responsible for holding a clinical caseload which will involve assessment, care coordination, systems navigation, secondary consultation, service development and innovation.
About You:
You will bring:
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Experience managing complex clients with multiple comorbidities
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Enthusiasm for working in a multidisciplinary team
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Demonstrated commitment to best practice care
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Ambition to grow your clinical skills and expand your knowledge
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Your proactive and team player attitude
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Your strong communication and interpersonal skills
What you need:
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Current and ongoing employment screening, including but not limited to, National Police Check, employee Working with Children Check (WWC)
- Appropriate professional registration/affiliation with peak body
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Demonstration of appropriate competencies and skills
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Current Victorian Drivers Licence
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Tertiary qualifications in Nursing, Allied Health or equivalent
In Return
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A supportive and cohesive team within a larger multidisciplinary setting
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Professional development support and mentoring
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Continual opportunities to use your drive for innovation to develop services to meet the changing landscape within the broader healthcare system
For a confidential discussion and to explore the opportunity further, please call Nataliya Shkuratova on 0407 961 386.
Position description can be found here
Role Statement Attachment can be found here
We recognise the value of equal employment opportunity. We are committed to patient safety, promoting fairness, equity and diversity in the workplace and to Child Safe Standards. At Monash Health we are relentless in our pursuit of excellence and work to our six guiding principles and our five ICare values.
How to Apply
Applications are accepted via the Monash Health online EHub system. For information including how to apply and probity check requirements, please click here for the ‘Application Guide’
Applications will be screened upon receipt and selection activity may commence prior to the closing date.