Ndis Program Lead

**Overview**:
**Work Type**:Fixed-term - Full-time

**Salary**: Salary not specified

**Grade**:Grade not specified

**Occupation**:Health and allied health

**Location**:Melbourne - CBD and Inner Metro suburbs

**Reference**:2963

**Are you a current Austin Health employee?**
- **Make an impact on the lives of patients, their families and carers supporting NDIS readiness across the service**:

- ** Fixed term, full time opportunity (parental leave cover until June 2026)**:

- ** Applications encouraged from Social Worker/Occupational Therapist/Psychologist Grade 3, Registered Psychiatric Nurse Grade 4**

Austin Health is the major provider of tertiary health services, health professional education and research across three campuses in the north-east of Melbourne and statewide. We have a highly engaged, diverse and collaborative workforce that is unified by our goal to help people live healthy and fulfilled lives.

**About the Mental Health Division**
- The Mental Health Division provides mental health assessment and interventions for people experiencing mental illness, and their family and carers. Working from a recovery-orientated model, the Mental Health Division provides an array of hospital-based, community and specialist services for infants, children, young people, adults and aged people throughout Victoria. All mental health services work within a clinical framework that promotes recovery-orientated practice and supported decision-making. The Mental Health Division has a highly supportive and collaborative team culture, based on the foundations of the Austin Health values.

**About the role**
- As the NDIS Program Lead in the Mental Health Division, you will be the key contact with the NDIA local office and LAC partner, supporting NDIS-readiness across the service.

A regular day will see you:

- Working alongside the clinical workforce to solve problems and drive NDIS outcomes for consumers of our services
- Building and maintaining strong partnerships with external agencies & stakeholders.
- Strengthening our clinical workforces’ capacity to support consumers and carers through the NDIS pathway.
- Playing a key role in addressing any issues relating to communication or decision making for consumers and service providers of NDIS.

**About you**
- You will have a relevant health qualification with current AHPRA registration (where applicable), and specific experience requirements for nurses, psychologists, social workers, and occupational therapists.

You’ll further bring with you:

- Strong knowledge of the NDIS, Disability Legislation and support services.
- Demonstrated clinical experience in relation to assessment and planning.
- Skills to build workforce capacity and competency through delivery of NDIS related training & education activities.
- An authentic commitment to person-centred care that drives positive outcomes for consumers, their families and carers.
- Strong communication, organisational and time management skills.
- Commitment to working collaboratively across a multidisciplinary team and with multiple key stakeholders.

**Our benefits**
- Working at Austin Health means enjoying a strong sense of purpose, engaging in meaningful work every day. Our people also receive a variety of rewarding benefits, including:

- Greater take-home pay through generous salary packaging, for living expenses, meals, and holiday accommodation.
- A suite of wellness initiatives designed to support you, including discounted fitness memberships and special offers on health insurance, and a comprehensive wellbeing program.
- Onsite childcare at Austin Hospital, easy access via public transport and car parking options.
- Mentoring and career development opportunities.

**Work with us**

**Interested in finding out more about this opportunity? Read the**position description** for further details.**

**Application closing date: Monday 18 August 2025**

- Applications close Monday 18 August 2025 at 11.59pm

Posted
- 28 July 2025