Care Navigator

**Description**

**Employment Type**: Full-time, Permanent.
**Classification**: Health Professional Officer 4/ Psychologist Level 4 (PN 64199)
**Salary**:$121,389 - $136,035 (Plus 11.5% Super)
**Note**:This role will be filled at either Health Professional Level 4 or Psychologist Level P4 depending on qualifications and experience, in line with the Enterprise Agreement.
**Location**:Canberra Health Services
**Section**:Liaison & Navigation Service
**Closing Date**:6 December 2024

**What can we offer you**:

- Competitive pay rates and excellent working conditions within a tertiary hospital.- Salary Packaging with many options that provide full fringe benefits tax concessions.- Flexible working conditions.- 11.5% Superannuation.- Access to Employee Assistance Program.- Access to discounted gym membership.- Access to onsite Physiotherapists.- Access to onsite cafes, staff cafeteria, pharmacy and gift shop.-
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**About the Role**:
The Liaison and Navigation Service (LaNS) provides liaison, navigation, care coordination and complex case management for people with complex health and psychosocial needs.

LaNS improves a consumer’s experience and their health outcomes through information sharing, integration of care across primary, secondary, and tertiary services, and coordination across health and community services. It focuses on the provision of the right care, at the right time, at the right place, by the most appropriate provider in partnership with the consumer and their care supports. This includes a focus on providing care outside the acute setting with outreach to clients in the ACT community.

The service is comprised of a multidisciplinary team that assists consumers and their supports to navigate the multiple services involved in their care. The service provides and supports patient-centred, trauma-informed, strengths-based, integrated, and coordinated care. It works closely with acute and community services, and across health and psychosocial services, to reduce the challenges consumers and their supports face when required to access multiple services, to ensure the highest quality of care.

The Care Navigator will undertake assessment from an interdisciplinary perspective and coordinate treatment/therapies and psychosocial supports to ensure the facilitation of timely and safe access. The role will work with consumers and their care supports to provide case management, system navigation, advocacy, support, and connection with appropriate services. It will champion person-centred care and actively promote the needs of consumers for navigational support.

This unique role is an opportunity to build relationships with consumers and their supports, GPs, diverse acute and community services, and external agencies, to anticipate and reduce the challenges that people with complex health and psychosocial needs, and their supports, can face. It is an opportunity to ensure the highest quality of care, information and support is provided when consumers and their supports need it, to optimise their health and wellbeing and assist them to navigate the complexities of their care.

The role will be a point of coordination with external health and human services, and work with CHS services and current specialty care coordinators to support consumers and improve the formal networks and pathways for information sharing, coordination, and ED avoidance.

The Care Navigator will work to develop the clinical scope of the role with the intention to undertake practical clinical support and interventions to support consumers to stay well in the community, and to work directly with outpatient and community services to minimise the need for acute care presentation.

The Care Navigator will take on a key role in the ongoing review and development of the service, working collaboratively with colleagues, consumers, and external agencies to contribute to and guide the ongoing co-design of this innovative patient-centred service.

As a member of the LaNS team you will remain committed to, and focused on:

- Placing people with complex health and psychosocial needs, and their families, at the centre of their own care.- Involving the consumer and their supports in care planning.- Anticipating and removing barriers to care.- Assisting consumers and their supports to make sustainable connections to the services and supports they need.- Helping to solve problems, coordinate care, and improve the flow of information between the care team and the consumer and their supports.- Listening to consumers and their supports and acknowledging that they are experts in their own health.**For more information regarding the position duties click here for the **_Position Description._**

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- Undergo a pre-employment National Police Check.- Prior to commencing this role, a current registration issued under the _Working with Vulnerable People (Background Checking) Act 2011_ _is required.- Comply with Canberra Health Services Occupational Assessm