Carer Consultant

**Job no**: 840247
**Work type**: Part time
**Location**: Adelaide Metro Northern
**Categories**: Allied and Scientific Health
- **Northern Adelaide Local Health Network - Lyell McEwin Hospital - Elizabeth Vale**:

- **Salary**: $65,606 - $69,919 p.a. **(pro rata)**- OPS 3**:

- **Permanent Part-Time - 22.5 hours per week**

**About Us**:
The Northern Adelaide Local Health Network (NALHN) provides care for more than 400,000 people living in the northern metropolitan area of Adelaide and boasts newly redeveloped wards and Emergency and Outpatient Departments, with plans for the addition of more brand-new facilities in the near future. NALHN provides a full range of high-quality medical, surgical, maternity, diagnostic, emergency and support services. NALHN offers a range of primary health care services across the northern metropolitan area of Adelaide, with a focus on providing preventive and health promoting programs in the community, and transition and hospital substitution and avoidance programs targeted at chronic disease and frail aged.

With a workforce of almost 6,500 employees, NALHN works to ensure quality and timely delivery of health care, whilst building a highly skilled, engaged and resilient workforce based on a culture of collaboration, respect, integrity and accountability.

Our core values of respect, integrity and accountability underpin our commitment to provide excellence in care, innovation, creativity, leadership and equity in service provision and health outcomes to the Northern area communities.

At NALHN Everyone Has a Story, Everyone Matters, Everyone Contributes and Everyone Grows.

**Benefits of working at NALHN**:
From salary packaging to flexible working arrangements, a large range of opportunities for movement and career progression, you’ll find there are lots of benefits of working with Northern Adelaide Local Health Network.

Salary packaging is an option for saving money by paying for some of your everyday expenses from your salary before it is taxed.

Across SA Health there are always opportunities for you to develop your skills and career at any of our metropolitan or regional sites.

Relocation assistance may be available for successful applicants from interstate or overseas.

**About You**:
Are you dedicated, compassionate and enthusiastic looking for an opportunity to join a dynamic, growing healthcare network where you will be part of a supportive team delivering high quality care to the community? If so, then this could be the opportunity for you. This position will offer you professional growth opportunities within a supportive and inclusive culture.

**About the Role**:
An exciting opportunity is presented to work within the Northern Adelaide Local Health Network as a Care Consultant within the Older Persons Mental Health Unit

The Carer Consultant works collaboratively with all staff as a member of the mental health Multidisciplinary Team under the supervision of the Senior Social Worker of the designated health unit.

The Carer Consultant utilises their ‘Lived Experience’ of caring for a person with mental illness or dementia to assist families in understanding the following:
People with serious mental illness or dementia are not ill in isolation. The illness also has an impact on their families and significant others. The extent to which family members are involved in treatment and support can be complex and the decision of the person with mental illness is of paramount importance.

Services are providing family inclusive contact throughout the phases of contact with consumers ensuring the opportunities for family involvement occur early, are ongoing and are embedded characteristics of the support provided for consumers.

‘Lived Experience” means caring for a family member who is or has been a recipient of a program of a Mental Health Service.

The Carer Consultant by utilising their ‘Lived Experience’ should in conjunction with Mental Health Staff:

- Contribute to a multi-disciplinary assessment of the strengths, challenges, and goals of the person with a mental illness and key family members, recognising the importance of the family context.
- Contribute to care planning and coordination of elements of a person's treatment and support, to facilitate recovery and to maintain good relationships with the family/carer.
- Provide family members/carers with written information about the illness, and appropriate community resources including information about respite options.

The South Australian public sector promotes diversity and flexible ways of working including part-time. Applicants are encouraged to discuss the flexible working arrangements for this role.

**Check(s)**
- DHS Aged Care Sector Employment Screening

**Immunisation Risk for this position is - Category A (direct contact with blood or body substances)**

SA Health Services are required to implement the Addressing vaccine preventable disease: Occupational assessment, screening and vacc