Team Leader, Early Parenting Centre

Location: Western Region | Ballarat

Job type: Full time

Organisation: Grampians Health

**Salary**: Salary not specified

Occupation: Nursing

Reference: 18277

**About the role**
Grampians Health will deliver a day stay and residential (home stay) service in a new purpose-built Early Parenting Centre in Lucas, Ballarat Victoria.

EPCs are dedicated facilities to support mothers, fathers, parents, carers, families and their children up to four years of age. EPCs deliver a suite of core services through a nurse-led multidisciplinary care team.

High quality and safe EPC service delivery is best achieved through a workforce built on a:

- Strong nursing leadership team, including Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Nurses, that provides leadership and clinical oversight and support for the multidisciplinary clinical team; and
- Collaborative multidisciplinary clinical team founded on a nursing backbone (MCH Nurses, registered nurses, registered midwives, enrolled nurses), complemented by allied health such as social workers and psychologists and other specialist staff such as Aboriginal heath care workers and General Practitioners.

The service will provide flexible targeted services including group sessions, day stay, 4-night stay program, outreach and telehealth targeted to enhance the parent-child relationship and support parents with strategies to achieve their parenting goals.

**Skills and experience**
- Oversee clinical services whilst on shift, and take responsibility for the provision of clinical nursing leadership to staff in providing person centred care
- Facilitate the provision of clinical services to admitted families
- Fulfill in charge responsibilities and work closely with the NUM and Maternal and Child Health Clinical Nurse Consultant
- Work autonomously to conduct thorough telehealth assessments ensuring beneficial, holistic patient care
- Ability to work a rotating roster across the EPC consisting of days and nights
- Provide expert clinical advice in relation to access, triage, assessment and treatment processes

**Culture & Benefits**
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 and purchase leave opportunities
- Salary packaging for living expenses such as rent/mortgage plus meals, entertainment & holidays
- Access to discounted health club membership
- Staff rewards and recognition programs

**About Grampians Health**
Grampians Health provides healthcare to a large region at our campuses based in Ballarat, Dimboola, Edenhope, Horsham and Stawell.

Our mission is to deliver sustainable healthcare tailored to evolving community and workforce needs. We strive to enhance services and careers, providing quality healthcare to rural and regional communities. Joining Grampians Health means being part of a diverse team, with a variety of career opportunities in acute, maternity, mental health, allied health, aged care and support services.

**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 Vikki Doddamani, Nurse Unit Manager on 0467 680 464 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._