Age Well Planner

4 months ago

Coburg, Australia Merri-bek City Council Full time

**Temporary Part time role - 4 days / 30.4 hours per week to 30 June 2025**:

- **Salary: $99k - $108k + Super (pro-rata)**:

- **Ability to transfer or take LSL (Long Service Leave) within Local Government**

**About Merri-bek City Council**:
Merri-bek City Council is a progressive council of 175,000 residents: one community, proudly diverse. Our council area sits within the banks of the Merri Creek and the Moonee Ponds Creek, and includes Brunswick, Coburg, Fawkner, Glenroy, Gowanbrae, Hadfield, Oak Park and Pascoe Vale. Our city is vibrant and energetic, known for its active community, cultural diversity, creative industries and the arts. Our long-term vision has ambitious goals for environmental sustainability, social justice, community wellbeing, and creating great places. With the Civic Centre located in Coburg, 8 kilometres north of Melbourne’s CBD, there are excellent public transport options and great food and cafés right at the doorstep.

Merri-bek Council strives to be a contemporary, innovative and collaborative organisation with a deep commitment to engaging and supporting the Merri-bek community. Our organisational vision is to be one team, brave and diverse, making a difference.

We pride ourselves on being an inclusive and welcoming workplace. We offer flexible and hybrid work options and genuinely care about providing our staff work/life balance. With the Civic Centre located in Coburg, 8 kilometres north of Melbourne’s CBD, there are excellent public transport options and great food, cafés, parks and a cinema right at the doorstep. Merri-bek is a great place to live, work and play.

**About the role**:
We have an exciting part-time temporary opportunity for an Age Well Planner/ Care finder to join the team. Split role between both Age Well and Care Finder, be a part of the development of the New Merri-bek Navigation Service as well as be apart of the Care Finder Program which operates across council boundaries with Darebin and Moonee Valley.

The Age Well Planner will be responsible for supporting Merri-bek residents to be able to access the services they need, by increasing their knowledge of My Aged Care, developing an Age Well Guide, providing regular "Ask us Anything" sessions in the community as well as one on one support via the phone or in person and at our local events and festivals. As well as regular evaluation and reporting of progress. In Care finder role work with older people referred via the Care Finder program with work across council boundaries within Darebin and Moonee Valley Council areas.

**Skills and experience require to perform the role**:

- Demonstrated ability to provide support to navigate the service system for older people experiencing homelessness, mental health issues, drug, and alcohol issues, elder and systems abuse, neglect, financial disadvantage, and cognitive decline
- The ability to facilitate integrated service coordination and identify new opportunities that will assist individuals to access relevant and appropriate services
- Ability to recognise older community members who may have a range of complexity indicators that require specific assessment or service responses
- Knowledge of current Victorian and Commonwealth aged care programs, services and supports for people over 65 years of age.
- High level cultural competency with diversity awareness

**What the role can offer**:

- Extensive opportunities for training & career development
- Salary sacrifice options
- A real sense of work-life balance & flexible work options
- Employer-supported study assistance schemes
- Wellness programs

**Further support offered for our staff**:

- Up to 20 weeks primary & up to 5 weeks secondary parental leave
- Purchase leave
- Ceremonial leave
- Gender affirmation leave
- Family violence leave

**For further information about this position please contact Shiona Novkovic-Heaven on 9240 2338**.**

**Applications close: 11:30pm, Monday, 16 September 2024.**

**How to apply**:

- Please note that some documents relating to this position may reference Moreland City Council. We are in the process of updating the councils new name of Merri-bek City Council.

Merri-bek is focused on diverse representation of the community we serve. With this we value lived experience that could contribute to the shaping of this role and in turn will continue to provide representation and growth of safe and inclusive work culture.

**Our Commitment**:
In May 2021, Merri-bek Council adopted a revised Statement of Commitment to Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung People and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities of the municipality. The statement recognises the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung people as the traditional owners of the lands and waterways of our municipality.

Merri-bek City Council is committed to being a Child Safe Organisation and has zero tolerance for child abuse. We believe children and young people have the right to be and feel safe and that their safety and wellbeing is th

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