Manager - Infant Child and Family Health and

Location: Melbourne | Eastern Metropolitan

Job type: Full time

Organisation: Monash Health

**Salary**: Salary not specified

Occupation: Education and Training, Health and Allied Health, Family Violence Workers, Medical

Reference: 57536

**About Monash Health**

**About Monash Health in the Community**: Helping people live their best lives

As Monash Health in the Community, we actively engage with people to improve and maintain health, independence and well-being. We do this by coordinating and/or providing integrated, multidisciplinary care across multiple settings within the local community. Our aim is to help clients live their best lives by enabling them to access the support they need, when they need it.

Working with clients across the age spectrum, Monash Health in the Community provides a continuum of care, supporting clients through all stages of non-acute care from prevention through to rehabilitation.
- We provide services to support clients in their homes, community based facilities and dedicated Monash Health Community hubs
- We provide quality care focused on the person in the context of their life
- We are interdisciplinary and innovative with a can-do attitude
- We view change and challenge as great opportunities.

**Job summary**

**Infant Child and Family Health and Wellbeing Hub**

The Infant Child and Family Health and Wellbeing Hub is a new service that will provide therapy that considers all aspects of an infant's or child’s life. These services will provide wellbeing support, peer support and care coordination to help with different kinds of challenges including developmental, behavioural, and mental health concerns. This service has funding for community health, mental health, and family support services. The Infant, Child and Family Health and Wellbeing Hub will sit alongside ELHMS - Monash Childrens and the Child and Family Program - Monash Health Community

As this is a new service, as part of the recommendations of the Mental Health Royal Commission, there will be two phases of service delivery. The first phase will be an upstanding of an interim model of care taken from the needs of both existing mental health and community health paediatric services within Monash Health that meet the objectives of the Hub. The second phase will run in parallel to phase one and will consist of a new codesigned model of care for the ongoing service delivery of the Hub. Within the first 12 months there will be time allocated to workshopping the new model of care with other team members, consumers, and stakeholders.

This role is for the Community Health Manager within the Infant Child and Family Health and Wellbeing Hub. The Community Manager and the Mental Health Manager will be responsible for managing the Hub’s business within Monash Health, supporting a multidisciplinary team to deliver high-quality care. Both managers will have a split role, consisting of shared operational governance and clinical load. The manager(s) are responsible for leading the current services, understanding the developmental and mental health landscape, and seeking to grow and remodel the service to meet population needs. The managers will be required to build responsive policies, procedures and processes for the service and to ensure staff are provided with high-quality supervision and professional development.

**Purpose**:

- Effective leadership & management of teams.
- Positive, flexible, and consistent approach to change to achieve continuous quality improvements.
- Development of strong networks, relationships, and partnerships with internal and external
- stakeholders.
- Effective management of available resources to maximise operational efficiencies.
- Responsive approach to service demand/capacity.
- Continually refine and implement systems and processes to support Best Practice patient care and timely access

**You Are Also**:

- Dedicated to safe best practice & quality care
- Committed to delivering patient centered care & a patient advocacy
- Enthusiastic, compassionate & able to work collaboratively

**What You Need**:

- Tertiary and/or post graduate qualification in a health-related profession
- Member or eligible for membership of professional association
- Current Victorian driver’s licence or equivalent.
- _ Higher qualification in management (Desirable)._
- _ Research active (Desirable)._

**In Return**:
This is a unique and exciting career opportunity to actively contribute to the direction and success of the Hub. You will be part of a dynamic changing environment that will have future growth.

Monash Health is a great place to work

Our employees enjoy a range of benefits including:

- salary packaging options that increase your take-home pay
- a comprehensive Health and Wellbeing program
- free flu vaccinations
- private health insurance at discounted rates
- health imaging services
- + more

Monash Health is Victoria’s largest public health service and proudly provides healthcare