Positive Ageing Officer

Temporary, Part-Time (parental leave cover), 3 days per week
- Salary Circa: 97K per annum (pro rata) + superannuation
- Convenient Preston location, close to public transport

Join a specialised team within Council’s Supported and Connected Living Department to connect and engage older people experiencing significant difficulty accessing aged care services
- Temporary, Part time (parental leave cover) - 3 days per week
- Salary circa 97k (pro rata) + super
- Convenient Preston location

At Darebin, diversity, equity, and inclusion are at the core of how we work. Our commitment to these values is unwavering, they are central to our mission, to our impact and to help us better serve our community. We know that having varied perspectives and lived experiences helps generate better ideas to enable a diverse, inclusive and connected community.

**About Darebin City Council**
Located in Melbourne’s northern suburbs, Darebin City Council is home to one of the largest, most diverse communities in terms of culture, language, religion, socio-economic background, occupation, and housing needs. The city has one of the largest populations of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander residents in metropolitan Melbourne. Our Vision is for a community that works together to advance community life.

**About the Role**
As a Positive Ageing Officer, you will provide service navigation support to help connect older people in the community to aged care services.

You will also provide care coordination and navigation to Carers eligible for the Government funded Support for Carers program. The emphasis of the role for the parental leave period will be to:

- Deliver the Care Finder program in the Northern Region with consortium partners
- Provide specialist and intensive assistance to help connect people with relevant supports in the community
- Support people to engage and interact with My Aged Care for screening and eligibility of aged care services and referring for assessment
- Conduct high level check-in with clients and follow up support once services have commenced
- Network with Care Finder partnering Councils and external agencies
- Provide care coordination and navigation support to Carers eligible for Support for Carers funding
- Maintain client records and data to facilitate required monitoring, reporting and evaluation

**Skills & Experience**
- Tertiary qualification in allied health or relevant profession (e.g. social work, health/community services or social sciences) and or/ substantial experience working with diverse older people or people with complex support needs
- Demonstrated knowledge of and experience in strengths-based approaches providing information, decision-support, linking, advocacy and casework for older persons with vulnerable profiles and complex needs
- Sound working knowledge and ability to navigate My Aged Care service system
- Understanding of Aged Care reforms and impact on aged care service system in Victoria
- Understanding of Age-Friendly principles and social determinants of health in older age

**Other requirements**
- A current Victorian Drivers Licence
- A current employee Working with Children Card

**Culture**
As a progressive leader in Local Government, Darebin City Council is passionate about social inclusion, sustainability, engagement and service excellence. We are proud of the diversity of our workforce and recognise the strength this provides in meeting the needs of the community we serve.
We are committed to upholding a positive and supportive work environment that values the contribution of all employees and treats all employees with dignity and respect.

**Benefits**
We offer a range of benefits to our employees including opportunities for personal and professional development, flexible work practices, Employee Assistance Program, recognition and reward program - Appreciate Great and a variety of generous paid and unpaid leave options.

**How to Apply**

We’re also happy to adjust our recruitment process to support your accessibility needs.

Contact Kristin Godby, Senior Care Finder Services on 9470 8266 for a confidential discussion.

**Applications close on Tuesday 17 September 2024 at 12 noon**.
- Darebin is committed to providing a safe working environment that embraces and values child safety, and thorough ‘Safety Screening’ processes apply. To work at Darebin City Council, you will be required to supply proof of work rights, a Victorian Employee Working with Children Check and comply with Child Safety standards. All employees are required to undertake an Australian Criminal History Check and may be required to complete a Functional Health Assessment. Council requires all employees to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 as outlined in the Staff Covid-19 Vaccination Policy._

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