National Disability Insurance Scheme

**Overview**:
**Work Type**:Ongoing - Full-time

**Salary**: $103,885 - $109,824

**Grade**:Grade not specified

**Occupation**:Health and allied health

**Location**:Melbourne - CBD and Inner Metro suburbs

**Reference**:13583

**National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) Navigator Grade 3 Senior Allied Health Clinician (multidisciplinary)**
- Work for Australia’s leading Children’s Hospital
- Excellent employee benefits including salary packaging, clinical supervision and continuing professional development opportunities
- Supportive and dynamic team

**About the Role**
- This is a Permanent position at 0-8-1.0 FTE (60.8-80 hours per fortnight) within the Allied Health team at the Royal Children's Hospital.
- You will be responsible for providing high quality case management/co-ordination through the autonomous use of expert clinical skills and knowledge of NDIS legislation, processes, services, and assessments to liaise with internal RCH teams and external community services including the NDIS itself. You will provide professional leadership across the multi-disciplinary team and work in partnership with consumers, the Disability Liaison Officers (DLO), and the NDIS Hospital Liaison Officer (HLO), to identify and address any changes or new NDIS support requirements for RCH NDIS participants to support their care at home.

**What you’ll achieve**:

- Specialist clinical knowledge and skills within the area of NDIS processes including, legislation, assessments, health and NDIS funded services to enhance outcomes for NDIS participants.
- Support RCH NDIS initiatives, in collaboration with the NDIS services at RCH as required.
- Provide and enable comprehensive multidisciplinary discharge planning to facilitate a safe, efficient and effective transition from the hospital setting to the home/community destination

Classification for this position will range from Grade 3 Year 1 to Grade 3 year 4 Multidisciplinary Allied Health Clinician (base salary from $103,885.00 to $109,824.00 per annum, plus superannuation)

**Your skills and experience**:

- An accredited qualification in one of the Allied Health Therapy or Science professions.
- Eligibility for professional registration with AHPRA (where required) or appropriate professional body (where applicable).
- Relevant qualifications in disability and or significant experience in the disability health sector including NDIS/NDIA.
- Excellent working knowledge, experience and competency with NDIS processes and legislation.
- Extensive experience in hospital Allied Health practice, with an interest in best practice disability services and supports, innovation, clinical documentation, and multidisciplinary collaboration.

If this sounds like you, click here to view the position description.

**About the Allied Health Department at the Royal Children's Hospital**
- The Royal Children’s Hospital’s (RCH) vision is **a world where all kids thrive.** The Allied Health team provides integrated multidisciplinary care across the acute inpatient and outpatient setting and work collaboratively across the organisation to improve the patient’s physical and psychosocial functioning. The Allied Health Directorate sits within the Division of Ambulatory Services.

**What we offer**:

- Salary Packaging - Increase your take home pay
- Professional development and a culture of continuous improvement
- Flexible work options available

**Other requirements**:

- Current National Criminal Record Check, or willing to obtain
- Valid Working with Children Check
- Current NDIS Worker Screening Check, or willing to obtain
- Compliance with RCHs “Staff Immunisation - Prevention of Vaccine Preventable Diseases” procedure

**Application process**
- To apply, you will need a resume and a tailored cover letter outlining your skills, experience, and suitability for the position in line with the requirements of the position description.
- Why work at the RCH?

RCH enjoys high employee engagement and is committed to staff safety and a positive culture through enactment of our Compact. We offer the opportunity to work in world-class facilities, surrounded by Royal Park and only a short tram trip from the heart of Melbourne city.
- We also offer discounted staff parking, salary packaging, and an award-winning health and wellbeing program.

It is a requirement of your employment that you be vaccinated against Influenza annually for Category A and B roles, in compliance with any public health orders in place at the relevant time, unless you have a medical exception in line with those public health orders, which has been accepted by The Royal Children’s Hospital. Applicants will be required to provide their Australian Government Immunisation History Statement, it is a requirement of the RCH to collect, record and hold vaccination information.

It is also a requirement of your employment that you comply with any direction given by The Royal Children’s Hospital that you be vaccinated against, or prove im