Practice Advisor

**Permanent full time position**:

- ** $90,439 per annum plus super and salary packaging up to $18,550**:

- ** Flexible work arrangements - including working from our Osborne Park Office & from home**

**About us**

At the heart of Avivo is our steadfast belief that everyone matters.

Avivo is a not-for-profit community organisation that supports people with a disability, people who experience mental ill health and older people across Western Australia. We exist to make real what matters to the 3500+ people and families we support each year.

Central to our culture is self-determination and personal responsibility - we are social justice pioneers. We’re a contemporary organisation that continues to explore what it takes to work in a way that doesn’t just deliver a service but creates a better world.

We are champions of individualised support, autonomous teams, contemporary technology, and meaningful community connection.

**About the role**

The **Practice Advisor
- Family & Carer Support** delivers integrated family and carer practice and process support within Avivo in a way that helps teams to make real what matters to our customers.

This position supports teams to develop and deliver quality support to people who require family and carer support using a person-centred approach. As a Practice Advisor you will proactively monitors the health of Avivo’s services and supports teams as well as provide practice, process and operational expertise with the goal to build capability in family and carer support.

**Responsibilities include**:

- Coordinate and undertake innovations, projects or programs of work that have operational significance contributing to Avivo’s strategic direction.
- Collaborate and partner with Area and Business Support teams to identify opportunities for efficiencies and improvements.
- Work with Area and Business Support teams to investigate the financial viability of family and carers services and explore opportunities for customers to utilise their funding effectively.
- Ensure that Avivo’s funder compliance expectations are met, including funder reporting
- Development and delivery of events/workshops that facilitate networks of support for carers
- Develop internal and external partnerships to promote mental health programs across the metropolitan and regional communities that stimulate referrals and support families and carers
- Gather and share data on customer experiences
- Where required work in projects or programs of work related to Aged Care or Disability

**What we need from you**:

- Qualification in human services, related discipline, or evidence of working towards completion
- In depth knowledge and experience in family and carer support services and mental health
- Excellent interpersonal, written, and verbal skills
- Demonstrated ability to work autonomously (with mínimal supervision) but also within a team
- Displays attitudes and behaviours that demonstrate Avivo’s vision and values

**What's in it for you**:
We believe our people are our greatest resource and the sustainability of our workforce depends on how well we utilise our people's skills and abilities.If you're ready to join a small-but-mighty team that delivers results that help make a real difference, we want to hear from you.
- A salary of $90,439 per annum plus super
- Option to Salary Package up to $18,550 to reduce taxable income - meaning you can legitimately pay less tax and increase your take-home pay
- Laptop and mobile phone provided
- Development opportunities and supportive team
- Flexible working options including working from home to support a great work life balance

**To be considered for this role you must provide a current resume and cover letter addressing the selection criteria.**

Avivo strongly encourages applicants to be fully vaccinated against Covid-19 including the seasonal flu vaccination.

**Last but not least, Avivo v**alues a diverse workforce with different life experiences, skills and backgrounds including people with disability, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, LGBTQIA+ and people from all cultural and linguistic backgrounds.