Koori Liaison Officer

**Work in an environment that offers**:

- Support for career progression and development
- A valued role supporting mental health and wellbeing of aboriginal children and adolescents involved with CAMHWS.
- Excellent clinical exposure across a range of specialties

**The Position**

**Job Reference**: 1394

**Position Title**:Koori Liaison Officer
**Classification**:YA36-YA45
**Salary per fortnight (exc. super)**:$2,451.60 - $2,978.80
**Hours per fortnight**:up to 80 hours _(includes ADO every 4 weeks)_
**Employment Status**:Ongoing Full Time, Part Time hours considered

**Closing date**:**20/02/2025

In context of the Victorian Royal Commission into Mental Health recommendations, putting children, young people and families at the centre of their healthcare, focus is on improving the cultural safety and responsiveness of mainstream health services. To support this, Koori Mental Health Liaison Officer positions have been funded across Victorian Infant, Child and Youth Mental Health and Wellbeing Services. These roles will provide Aboriginal children and young people and their families with focused cultural, social and emotional wellbeing support throughout connection with the health service.

Key features of the role:

- Working within the mental health and wellbeing team, this role will support CAMHWS clinicians to deliver timely, responsive, high quality and culturally safe mental health care.
- Support in building cultural capability of the service to ensure provision of culturally sensitive engagement, assessment and therapeutics.
- Support children, adolescents and their families in engaging with the mental health service through partnering and advocacy
- Liaise and work closely with other services involved in the child and families care.
- Support culturally safe care in partnership with Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisations (ACCHOs), promoting avenues of continuous shared care, supported transitions, primary and secondary consultations.
- Establishing linkages with Elders, Aboriginal people with lived experience and peer workers with the aim to
- improve the responsiveness and access to mental health services for Aboriginal children, adolescents and their families/ carers
- support the delivery of clinical, cultural and spiritual health journeys
- support the receipt of timely and responsive, high quality and culturally safe mental health care
- facilitate a partnership approach between ACCHOs and mainstream mental health services.

**This position is reserved for people of Aboriginal and/ or Torrest Strait Islander origin.**

**This action / activity constitutes a special measure under section 12 of the Equal Opportunity Act 2010.**

This role will be supported with cultural supervision and cultural support. The role will maintain close liaison with other Statewide Infant, child and youth mental health service KMHLO to share learnings and provide support.

If the successful applicant does not hold the listed required qualification or similar, they will be will be supported to enrol and commence relevant course of study within 6 months of commencement of the position.

**Working with Bendigo Health**

Bendigo Health are a leader in regional health care, combining outstanding services with a strong education, training and personal development culture.

Created by our community in the 1850s, we have a long, proud history of delivering excellent care to our community.

Our organisation is diverse, welcoming and committed to delivering our vision of Excellent Care. Every Person, Every Time.

Bendigo Health has around 5000 staff and a catchment area covering a quarter of the size of Victoria. The three main campuses of Bendigo Health are in Bendigo, with many services extended to regional settings including areas such as Mildura, Echuca, Swan Hill, Kyneton and Castlemaine.

We offer a fantastic range of benefits for our staff, including:

- Staff health and wellbeing programs
- Career development and education opportunities
- Generous salary packaging opportunities, to increase your take-home pay each fortnight
- Flexible Working Arrangements
- Use of staff gym and pool and access to other fitness facilities through fitness passport program

If successful for a position at Bendigo Health you must provide evidence of your full immunisation record as part of the on boarding process.

**Your New Division**

The Mental Health Service provides psychiatric care and treatment across a large catchment area in Victoria stretching from Swan Hill in the north of the state to Gisborne in the south. Family sensitive practice is central to our models of mental health care and best practice ensures the identification, inclusion and support of families, carers and children.

**Bendigo Region**

Bendigo is one of Victoria’s largest regional cities making it a great city to live and work in. Bendigo provides services for the region’s population of over 320,000 and so the city offers excellent schools, shoppi