Allied Health Assistant

**Posted**:
02/01/2025

**Closing Date**:
30/01/2025

**Job Type**:
Permanent - Part Time

**Location**:
Melbourne - Northern Region

**Job Category**:
Healthcare

**Great People. Great Careers. Excellent Healthcare**

DPV Health is a leading healthcare service provider in Melbourne’s northern growth corridor, delivering a wide variety of clinical, community health and wellbeing services.

Our People are the foundation of DPV Health; they are what make our organisation thrive and the ones who create meaningful change in people's lives. Over 700 professionals support and deliver excellent health care to our community at DPV Health. We are always looking for passionate, driven, great people to join our team and make a lasting impact. That is why we foster a workplace culture that is as rewarding as it is inclusive. We are committed to supporting Our People to lead fulfilling lives, no matter who they are, or where they are from - or where they are going.

Our workplace culture is committed to DPV Health values and celebrates workforce diversity reinforcing the positive approach we have to the way people contribute, communicate, engage and interact. Our People deserve to feel empowered and supported as they pursue their professional goals, learn new skills, and achieve meaningful milestones in their work. At DPV Health, we foster an environment that promotes greater growth, innovation, and collaboration, so you can feel elevated every day.

Our employee benefits, connect, recognise, and support Our People, acknowledging and valuing everyday contributions to the success and culture at DPV Health. We strive to ensure that Our People thrive at work and in all personal and professional pursuits. We invest in Our People, proudly offering a diverse range of opportunities including knowledge sharing, ongoing learning and development, leadership development, connectedness, and celebration; these are key pillars in our culture.

Job Description

**Greatness starts here**

We have an opportunity for a Paediatric Allied Health Assistant to join our Child Health team which covers the Hume and Whittlesea LGAs. Some of the responsibilities for this role include:

- Assisting in the delivery of individualised, quality, treatment, screening and support programs with clients, carers and relevant stakeholders (centre
- based)
- Assisting Paediatric Allied Health clinicians in the preparation and running of online and onsite groups.
- Ensuring client file documentation supports the standards for documentation and the quality improvement requirements within the agency
- Maintaining regular, timely and accurate statistical input into relevant client databases
- Ordering and Monitoring of Equipment and Consumables
- Participation in and input into regular monthly meetings

Desired Skills and Experience

**To be considered for this rewarding role you will have**:

- You are suitably qualified (Cert III or IV Allied Health Assistant)
- You have a minimum of 1 years’ experience in pediatric allied health assistant role.
- Basic understanding of typical and atypical childhood development.
- You have experience working with a variety of people that may include culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds and/or people with a disability.
- You have experience liaising with other health professionals.
- Basic understanding of different funding bodies (i.e., community health funding and NDIS).
- You have excellent written, communication and IT skills, including Microsoft Office suite.
- You have excellent organizational skills and the ability to prioritize tasks.
- Experience with patient record management systems.

**The fine print**
- Full driver license
- Level 2 First Aid Certificate

**Our Talent Experience**

We kindly request you include a covering letter, addressed to Despina Tsiflidis, detailing your motivation for joining DPV Health and highlighting the qualities you bring to this position.