Care Coordinator

**EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT CARE COORDINATOR**

**Hours: 112 hours per fortnight available**

**1200-2030 shifts**

**FIXED TERM: Part time and Full time hours**

**About Grampians Health**

Grampians Health was established 1 November 2021, bringing together Edenhope and District Memorial Hospital, Stawell Regional Health, Wimmera Health Care Group and Ballarat Health Services to deliver safe, sustainable, healthcare tailored to changing workforce and community needs, for the long term.

This partnership follows years of strong collaboration and close partnerships between the four health services. Together, we will deliver better healthcare, enhance services and advance careers, closer to home, now and into the future.

A career with Grampians Health means you are connected and are part of a team providing quality healthcare to rural and regional communities.

Our communities are diverse - as is our workforce, with expert clinical staff from across the world choosing to live and work in our beautiful region.

Grampians Health provides acute, maternity, mental health, allied health, aged care, administration and support services. This means your career will be as diverse and rewarding as you strive to be.

**About the role**

The Ballarat Health Services Emergency Department services the Grampians region for all urgent medical needs. Consisting of 25 beds, with 12 short stay units and 3 resuscitation bays.

BHS offers a mix of Emergency Department skill sets with triage, resuscitation cubicles, acute cubicles, minor injury - fast tracks, and short-stay unit. Open 24-hours, there is a variety of rotating shifts.

We pride ourselves on being a supportive environment for new nurses, offering The Next Step program and post graduate studies are just a few of the ways help you grow and develop With a great leadership team whom are very approachable, this is a great place for your career.

No one day is ever the same in Emergency Department

**Key Responsibilities**
- Assist with improving flow through the ED
- Mental health patient follow up
- Review patients who did not wait to be seen
- Facilitate efficient and cost effective primary access to an integrated system of community based services
- Facilitate safe and timely discharge to the community
- Provide person-centred care that encourages and supports consumer and carer participation

**Skills and experience**
- Current AHPRA Registration
- Minimum 2 years experience as an EDCC and/or relevant acute/community based services

**Grampians Health Culture & Benefit**

At Grampians Health, we recognise our staff are our greatest asset. We are committed to providing a safe and healthy environment for our staff, patients, residents, visitors, volunteers and contractors at all sites.
- Flexible work arrangements
- Salary packaging for living expenses such as rent/mortgage plus meals, entertainment & holidays
- Discounted on-site parking
- Access to discounted health club membership
- Staff rewards and recognition programs

**Ballarat Region**

Ballarat is the largest centre in Western Victoria and the states fastest growing inland city. Dubbed Australia’s most liveable city in 2020, Ballarat is home to first class education, fine dining and boutique shopping. Uniquely located within easy access to Melbourne, Geelong, Bendigo and the Western district, Ballarat is blessed with some of Australia’s most significant heritage buildings and natural landscapes.

**How to apply**

Click **APPLY** or contact Grant Berriman (Nurse Unit Manager) on 03 5320 6455 for a confidential discussion.

All employees must be willing and able to wear Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) when required, which at a minimum is a surgical mask. Additional PPE requirements are role-dependent.
- Grampians Health is a child safe organisation, committed to the safety and wellbeing of all children and young people._

**Selection Criteria**
- Essential : Have you received three doses of a COVID19 vaccine? If no, please provide further detail regarding doses received, booking dates and/or other relevant information.