Community Development Worker

**Enterprise Agreement / Classification**
- Allied Health Professionals (Victorian Public Sector) (Single Interest Employers) Enterprise Agreement 2020-2021 - COMM DEV WKR CL2AYR7 - XV16
- Allied Health Professionals (Victorian Public Sector) (Single Interest Employers) Enterprise Agreement 2020-2021 - COMMDEVWKR CL2AYR11 - ON14

**Hours per Fortnight**

**Position Summary**

**Work in an environment that offers**:

- An opportunity to work with a leading regional health service
- An opportunity to further your career
- An opportunity to support the growth in demand for services

**The Position***

**Position Title**: Community Development Worker - Carer Support Services
- **Classification**: XV16 - ON14
- **Salary per hour (exc. super)**: $37.12 - $43.12
- **Hours per fortnight**: 64 hours
- **Employment Status**: Part Time Fixed Term
- **Other requirements**: COVID-19 Vaccination

**Role Description**
- This position develops and monitors a program of community development and service enhancement activities for carers throughout the Loddon Mallee Region. These activities support unpaid carers in their caring role, and are designed in collaboration with carers and other regional stakeholders, based on service gap analysis and consultation. The role will also have direct carer contact.
- The position is based at the Bendigo office and requires regional travel for consultation, initiative establishment, network meetings and CSS team meetings.
- This is a fixed term position and will report to the CSS Team Leader.

**Bendigo Health**
- Our 700 bed state of the art hospital was built in 2017. We are a leader in regional health care, combining outstanding services with a strong education, training and personal development culture. We have all of the latest technologies allowing our 5000 staff to deliver
- _Excellent Care to Every Person, Every Time._ Remuneration is in accordance with Victorian Public Health Enterprise Agreements and generous salary packaging arrangements are offered to all staff. Bendigo Health offer:

- Flexible Working Arrangements
- Salary Packaging
- Financial relocation support available for eligible applicants
- Reimbursements for the cost of obtaining any required pre-employment checks (Police Check, WWCC and/or NDIS Worker Screening Check)
- Staff health and wellbeing programs
- Access to recommended immunisations
- Smoke free environment
- If successful for a position at Bendigo Health you must provide evidence of your full immunisation record as part of the on boarding process.

**The Team**
- The Community and Public Health Services Division has a primary focus on improving the health outcomes of the communities in our region. With a range of local and regional programs supporting place-based health promotion, prevention, care and support, they work collaboratively with other Divisions and regional partnerships and networks to support quality outcomes. The Division has a strong leadership role in the Loddon Mallee Region and is committed to ensuring processes are in place to deliver on our Division.

**Bendigo Region**
- Bendigo is one of Victoria’s fastest growing regional cities making it a great city to live and work in. Bendigo provides services for the region’s population of over 300,000 and so the city offers excellent schools, shopping and cultural precincts, sporting facilities and various tertiary facilities. We can offer generous flexible working arrangements - giving you more time to enjoy the fantastic restaurants, beautiful parks, walking trails and wineries within our region.

**Diversity and Inclusion**
- Bendigo Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We embrace diversity and social inclusion and encourage people from a diverse cultural background, people with disabilities and or Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander people to apply.

**Selection Criteria**
- Essential : Tertiary qualifications in Community Development, Public Health or equivalent, or significant work history with a transferable role
- Essential : Excellent communication, negotiating, problem solving and interpersonal skills, including experience in group facilitation
- Essential : Sound understanding of and ability to work with the issues affecting carers
- Essential : Sound understanding of the regional health and community service system and the impact of reform
- Essential : Demonstrated understanding of service enhancement principles and demonstrated capacity to guide implementation of community development activities that enhance respite opportunities for carers
- Essential : Demonstrated skills in project development and co-design principles to optimise responses to service gaps
- Essential : Experience and confidence with information technology
- Essential : Ability to work unsupervised and to prioritise tasks to meet deadlines and schedules as required
- Essential : Demonstrated organisational skills, including time management and willingness to work to agreed processes
- Desirable : Und