Transition Care Program Allied Health Assistant

Location: Melbourne | Southern Metropolitan

Job type: Part time

Organisation: Monash Health

**Salary**: Salary not specified

Occupation: Health and Allied Health

Reference: 59852

Grade 2 or 3 AHA - Transition Care Program, permanent 0.8 EFT (4 days a week or 5 days a week with shorter hours)
- Are you looking for the next step in your career?
- Are you wanting a professionally rewarding role with great work - life balance including school hours?
- Do you want to develop your skills across multiple disciplines?

**About Monash Health**

**About Us**

The Transition Care Program (TCP) is a major policy initiative between the State and Commonwealth Governments.

The TCP aims to minimise the number of older people experiencing inappropriate extended hospital lengths of stay, being prematurely admitted to residential care and/or prevent unnecessary presentations or admission to the Emergency Department. The program provides short term support and active management for older people at the interface of the acute/subacute and aged care (i.e. Community and residential) sector. The program is goal orientated to optimise the patient’s functional capacity and to finalise and access their longer term care arrangements or maintenance at home. By offering case management, low intensity therapy and personal support, TCP allows older people more time and support in a non-hospital environment to complete their restorative processes, optimise their functional capacity and finalise their long term care arrangements.

**About the Role**

The Grade 2 or 3 TCP Allied Health Assistant will work closely and collaboratively with the interdisciplinary team, the Senior Clinicians and the TCP Manager to provide clinical care to the TCP clients across both the bed-based and home-based settings.

The Allied Health Assistant will work with mínimal supervision to implement therapeutic and related activities to deliver quality services to clients. The position aims to provide a flexible and responsive service that works to meet each client’s identified Transition Care goals. The Allied Health Assistant has extensive knowledge of physiotherapy, occupational therapy and dietetic practice and has highly developed skills in working with carers and families. The position involves working across TCP’s Home Based/Community Program and the Bed Based Program.

**This role will mainly be based in Cranbourne**, with travel across sites as needed.

**About You**:

- Experience working in a health-related field and/or acute inpatient, rehabilitation, TCP, community or aged care
- Demonstrated ability to show initiative and work as a team member within the interdisciplinary team
- Experience working within the public healthcare sector
- Dynamic and flexible

**What you need**:

- Cert IV Allied Health Assistant
- Current driver's licence
- Relevant experience in the health sector (ideally with exposure to physiotherapy, occupational therapy and dietetics).

**Monash Health will offer**:

- salary packaging
- friendly and supportive culture
- opportunity to experience various teams
- on-going supervision and professional development

Monash Health recognises the value of equal employment opportunity and is committed to patient safety and promoting fairness, equity and diversity in the workplace. At Monash Health we are relentless in our pursuit of excellence and work to our six guiding principles.

**How to Apply**

Monash Health recognises the value of equal employment opportunity and is committed to patient safety and promoting fairness, equity, and diversity in the workplace. At Monash Health we are relentless in our pursuit of excellence and work to our six guiding principles.

Offers of employment can only be made once all required probity checks have been completed. These include:

- reference checks;
- a clear Police Check conducted within the last three months;
- a current Victorian Employee Working with Children’s Check (or proof of payment for same);and
- proof of immunisation.

A request to conduct probity checks does not guarantee that an offer of employment will be made.

Under the Victorian Public Health orders, all employees working within the Public Health system must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and Influenza and are required to provide acceptable evidence of their vaccination status. The current orders require evidence of three doses for COVID-19.