Care Coordinator Grade 3

Job Requisition ID: 3601
- Legal Entity: Monash Health
- Location: Clayton, VIC, AU, 3168
- Employment Type: Full Time
- Posting Date: 10 Feb 2025

**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.

To see first-hand what our colleagues think about working here, take a look at the following short videos**:monashhealth.org/careers**.

**Embark on a rewarding career and be part of a team where your dedication makes a difference in people’s lives.**

**About the Role**:
As the Grade 3 Care Coordinator, you will be an experienced and skilled Social Worker with consolidated psychosocial assessment and planning skills and use evidence to inform practice to enable you to effectively manage complexity in a fast paced Emergency Department. This position will provide support across Casey, Clayton, and Dandenong Emergency Departments, with a flexible roster that includes weekends, as well as early and late shifts (0800-1630 and 1300-2100), offering both direct and remote support.

Key areas of responsibility will include:
**Expert Knowledge Required**: Strong understanding of service systems such as Family Violence, Child Protection, My Aged Care, Addiction Medicine, NDIS, Mental Health, and the recovery model, ensuring high-quality, evidence-based service delivery.

**Collaborative Work Environment**: Ability to work within a diverse team of Allied Health clinical experts, including physiotherapists, occupational therapists, speech pathologists, social workers, and podiatrists, to provide patient-centred care and achieve exceptional outcomes.

**Clinical Leadership & Care Coordination**: Lead discharge planning, care coordination, and liaise with external service providers to enhance patient care during vulnerable times.

**About Us**:
The Monash Health Emergency Department Care Coordinator team is a dynamic service made up of dedicated, highly skilled transdisciplinary Allied Health clinicians.

You will be part of a well-integrated leadership team with an emphasis around positive culture and proactive management. This role provides opportunities for growth and development with a focus on excellent patient centred care and team development.

**About You**:
To ensure your success in this role you will bring the following demonstrated skills, experience and knowledge:

- Transdisciplinary clinical experience or the desire to develop transdisciplinary skills within the Emergency Department environment
- Advanced clinical reasoning skills with experience in providing clinical education and staff supervision
- The ability to work collaboratively in a multidisciplinary team
- Ambition to grow your clinical skills and expand your knowledge
- Proactive and team oriented attitude
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills
- Significant Emergency Department and/or acute hospital clinical experience
- Advanced discharge planning skills
- Leadership &/or service development experience

Mandatory requirements of the role:

- Bachelor of Social Work or Masters Social Work Qualifying OR Master of Social Work, OR equivalent as assessed and approved by the Australian Association of Social Workers (AASW).
- Eligible for ordinary membership of AASW or written evidence of eligibility for AASW membership for overseas qualifications is required.
- Accredited Social Worker and/or Accredited Mental Health Social Worker: As approved by the AASW.
- Completion of a post graduate qualification in relevant field or working towards.

If you like a job where no two days are the same, and you make a difference in our community, then this is the role you seek.

**In Return**

This role will see you being a part of the wider Monash Health Allied Health team, with access to all the benefits that offers: professional development, support, a well networked team with broad and specialised clinical experience.

This role is well supported by the Grade 4 ED Care Coordinator Team Leader and will see you work collaboratively with a fantastic group of people who are inclusive, passionate and share a vision to provide excellent, evidence-based care for patients and their families.

For a confidential discussion and to explore the opportunity further,** please call Karl Lincke on 0414 307 542.**

**Position Description can be found**here** and**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 will be screened upon receipt and selection activity may commence prior to the closing date.

**Applications close: 4 March 2025