Case Manager

Location: Melbourne | Southern Metropolitan

Job type: Full time, Part time

Organisation: Monash Health

**Salary**: Salary not specified

Occupation: Health and Allied Health, Nursing

Reference: 57714

Exciting full time or part time permanent Case Manager positions in the Transition Care Program (Dandenong North and Kingston, travel to Cranbourne (sometimes required).
- Are you passionate about supporting the care of older people?
- Would you like flexibility with your start and finish times and some work from home on occasions?
- Do you want a professionally rewarding role, working with a fabulous team of like-minded individuals?
- And do you really want to make a difference to people's lives, while also really enjoying your work/life balance?
- Are you interested in working with a team that are dedicated to research, evidence translation and improving service delivery?

Then this might be the role for you....

**About Monash Health**

**About the Transition Care Program**

The Transition Care Program (TCP) is a major policy initiative between the State and Commonwealth Governments.

The TCP aims to minimise the number of older people experiencing inappropriate extended hospital lengths of stay, being prematurely admitted to residential care and/or prevent unnecessary presentations or admission to the Emergency Department. The program provides short term support and active management for older people at the interface of the acute/subacute and aged care (i.e. Community and residential) sector. The program is goal orientated to optimise the patient’s functional capacity and to finalise and access their longer term care arrangements or maintenance at home.

The TCP can be provided as a bed based or as a home based service. By offering case management, low intensity therapy and personal support, TCP allows older people more time and support in a non-hospital environment to complete their restorative processes, optimise their functional capacity and finalise their long term care arrangements.

**About the Role of Case Management**

The TCP case management role will work closely and collaboratively with the geriatrician, interdisciplinary team, the Senior Clinicians and the TCP Manager to provide high level case management to the TCP clients across both the bed-based and home-based settings. This role will be predominantly be based in Dandenong North with some flexibility to work from Kingston. The role may also be required to work from Cranbourne depending on service need. Fleet cars are available for travel between sites.

The case manager will work closely with the local team to deliver quality services to clients through strong clinical expertise. The position aims to provide a flexible and responsive service that works to meet each client’s identified Transition Care goals. The position involves working across TCP’s Home Based/Community Program and the Bed Based Program.

**About You**:

- Highly developed case management and/or clinical skills as a nurse or allied health professional
- Experience working in a health-related field and/or acute inpatient, rehabilitation, TCP, community or aged care
- Demonstrated ability to show initiative, work independently and also work as a team member within the interdisciplinary team
- Experience working within the public healthcare sector

What You Need:

- Relevant Degree
- Current registrations
- Relevant clinical experience
- Current driver’s licence

Monash Health will offer:

- salary packaging
- friendly and supportive culture
- opportunity to experience various teams
- on-going supervision and professional development
- Vaccination requirements for roles in our Residential Aged Care facilities will be confirmed at interview stage and you should bring evidence.

How to Apply

Offers of employment can only be made once all required probity checks have been completed. These include:

- reference checks;
- a clear Police Check conducted within the last three months;
- a current Victorian Employee Working with Children’s Check (or proof of payment for same);and
- proof of immunisation.

A request to conduct probity checks does not guarantee that an offer of employment will be made.

Under the Victorian Public Health orders, all employees working within the Public Health system must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and Influenza and are required to provide acceptable evidence of their vaccination status. The current orders require evidence of three doses for COVID-19.