
Ndis Navigator
6 days ago
**Overview**:
**Work Type**:Fixed-term - Part-time
**Salary**: Salary not specified
**Grade**:Education Support - Level 1, Range 4
**Occupation**:Health and allied health
**Location**:Melbourne - Northern suburbs
**Reference**:1489313
**Selection Criteria**:
- SC1: Demonstrated highly developed interpersonal skills and communication skills.
- SC2: Demonstrated capability to establish and maintain collaborative relationships between people with disability and their parents and carers, other organisations or agencies and the wider community.
- SC3: Demonstrated understanding of issues facing students with disability and their parents/carers.
- SC4: Experience in building the capacity of others to navigate complex systems.
- SC5: Demonstrated knowledge of the operations of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) and operations of specialist schools.
**Role**:
- Objectives will, generally, be clearly defined; guidelines will be broad and day-to-day direction mínimal. Management responsibility extends to ensuring appropriate support levels are maintained across the school. Range 4 generally provides key support and timely advice to the leadership team and school council and liaises with the general school community, the Department and other government agencies and service providers.
- Specialised professional roles will carry a high level of independence and accountability where suitable scope is provided to achieve objectives.
- An education support class position supports the educational services being provided to students, but must not include duties of teaching as defined in clause 2.6.1 of the Education and Training Reform Act 2006 (Vic) or its successor. Supervision of students cannot be required except where it is an integral part of the employee¿s position or involves supervision of students individually or in small groups, in controlled circumstances, where the responsibility for students remains clearly with a teacher.
**Responsibilities**:
- The NDIS Navigator will carry out the following with a high level of autonomy (within broad guidelines), professional leadership and mínimal day-to-day direction:
- provide support and advice for parents and carers to build their capacity to understand, advocate for and access appropriate NDIS funded support services available to their children
- develop and maintain relationships with parents, carers, school staff and local services to enable productive working relationships between schools, parents, carers and the NDIS
- support collaborative practices between NDIS funded services and the school including by providing appropriate information, documentation and/or logístical support for approved NDIS-funded therapist on-site visits. (School to edit/amend if they do not allow NDIS therapists to delivery therapy on school site)
- working collaboratively across their school, the NDIS Navigator will support families and carers to resolve issues experienced with the NDIS through appropriate channels.
- The NDIS Navigator will not:
- contact the National Disability Insurance Agency or NDIS funded agencies on behalf of families or carers except in limited circumstances, following consultation with the principal
- act as an advocate for families, carers and students in matters that are the responsibility of the school.
- The NDIS Navigator role is not a teaching role or a clinical role and is not designed for direct intervention, individual student case management or crisis management. The role will not implement or perform supports and adjustments in schools.
- In some circumstances the NDIS Navigator may need to consult with the principal to prioritise families that have more complex needs that require additional support.
**Who May Apply**:
- Relevant experience in the NDIS, disability, youth or education sectors is desirable but not essential.
**EEO AND OHS Commitment**:
**Child Safe Standards**:
- Victorian government schools are child safe environments. Our schools actively promote the safety and wellbeing of all students, and all school staff are committed to protecting students from abuse or harm in the school environment, in accordance with their legal obligations including child safe standards. All schools have a Child Safety Code of Conduct consistent with the department's exemplar available at:
**DE Values**:
- The department's employees commit to upholding the department's Values: Responsiveness, Integrity, Impartiality, Accountability, Respect, Leadership and Human Rights. The department's Values complement each school's own values and underpin the behaviours the community expects of Victorian public sector employees, including those who work in Victorian Government Schools. Information on the department values is available at:
**Other Information**:
- Children and young people with disability can require a greater degree of parental or family involvement in their education and care than their peers without disability. Parents and
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