Care Coordinator

**Title**:Care Coordinator (ITC)**:

- Requisition ID: 1785
- Location: Lilydale, VIC, AU, 3140
- Job Posting Date: 11 Oct 2024

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**Care Coordinator - Integrated Team Care (ITC)**
- Temporary Part Time - potential for ongoing
- Based at Healesville Hospital
- Generous Salary Packaging

**Eastern Health**
Eastern Health is one of Melbourne’s largest public health services. We provide a range of emergency, surgical, medical and general healthcare services and have a proud history of serving a diverse community.
Our Healthier Together promise underpins our strategic plan - which is to serve the growing and changing needs of our community and to care about and develop our staff. We believe our people make the difference.

**About the role**
The Integrated Team Care (ITC) program supports Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who live with complex chronic health conditions to access the health caree they need. This program is funded undert the Indigenous Australians HEalth Care Programme.

The program aims to:

- Better treat and manage chronic conditions amoung Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people,
- Improve the health of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people with chronic conditions,
- Improve access to culturally appropriate mainstream primary health care services,
- Foster collaboration and support between mainstream and Aboriginal and torres Strait Islander health sectors

**About you**
To be successful in this role you will possess:

- Ability to assist and support Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to understand their chronic halth conditions and how to manage them
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills (written and verbal)
- Ability to manage administrative components of the role, not limited to data entry and developing perfromace reports
- Comprehensive understanding of culturally appropriate health care, or willingness to learn
- Ability to prioritise workload and demonstrated organisational skills
- Current WWCC, valid Victorian Driver's License, and clear police check
- Relevant qualifications in Allied Health, Aboriginal Health Worker, or similar
- Experience working in health sector and/or community services
- Ability to work with various stakeholders to advocate for/on behalf of patients.

Vaccination against infectious disease is a mandatory requirement of this role. An offer of employment is conditional on you providing evidence that you are currently vaccinated against COVID-19 with booster & Influenza, prior to commencing employment.

**What we offer**

Eastern Health offers a variety of fantastic Employee Benefits, view the extensive range here
- Diverse and engaging career opportunities
- Friendly & supportive team
- Flexible working hours
- Salary packaging options
- Career progression in our teaching hospitals

**Next Steps**

**Good to know**:

- We are an equal opportunity employer and actively promote equality for people of all races, ethnicities, gender identities, sexual orientations, and for people living with disability - within the communities we serve and our Eastern Health team.
- We provide a culturally safe and welcoming environment for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander employees.
- As a child-safe organisation, we ensure child safety and wellbeing is embedded in our everyday culture.
- Vaccination and screening for immunity to vaccine-preventable disease is a mandatory requirement of this role.
- Advertising may end before the closing date.

Contact Person: Sarah Gales

Contact Number: 5957 1100

Job Posting End Date: 30/06/2025

Just contact the Hiring Manager in the advertisement or call the Talent Acquisition Team on (03) 9955 7555 (Option 1) | Medical Workforce Unit on (03) 9895 3469. [TA for Non Medical roles, MWU for Medical roles]

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