Allied Health Assistant

Location: Melbourne | Southern Metropolitan

Job type: Full time, Part time

Organisation: Monash Health

**Salary**: Salary not specified

Occupation: Education and Training, Health and Allied Health, Family Violence Workers, Medical

Reference: 60868

**Working in Healthcare has never been more important or meaningful**

**About Monash Health**

**Our Journey**

The Monash at Home - Aged and Rehabilitation Care service, previously GEM at Home, launched in December 2020 and is a fundamental part of the broader Aged and Rehabilitation Division, providing safe and high-quality home-based subacute level care for individuals with complex medical, functional, and often cognitive issues, who require comprehensive, medically led multidisciplinary assessment and optimisation.

The service is seen as an alternative to hospital-based subacute care, designed to facilitate an earlier discharge from acute care and/or to avoid a subacute hospital stay entirely. Patients within the service receive at least daily visits from a member of the multidisciplinary team and access to 24-hour telephone support.?The model of care aims to provide short term, high quality, safe and effective patient-centred care to individuals within the primary Monash Health catchment. The Program is entering an exciting phase of growth which will include, but not limited to, increasing the clinical service capacity and extending the geographical catchment.

These roles are located in the south eastern suburbs of Melbourne, Victoria servicing various Monash Health sites.

**A Day in the Life**

The Grade 3 Allied Health Assistant (AHA) with the Monash at Home - Aged and Rehabilitation Care service, is responsible for providing strong leadership to the AHA team and actively contributing to the leadership group and promoting the profession both internally and externally to the organisation. The AHA facilitates independence, assists the team to ensure safety and quality of life of clients through a commitment to client focused, excellent care, collaborative practice and evidence-based knowledge. The AHA is responsible for working with the inter-professional team to provide this care through creating strong partnerships within and outside of Monash Health. Key elements of the role include:

- Provide strong leadership to the Monash at Home - Aged and Rehabilitation Care AHA team in areas of workload, quality improvement and professional development
- Represent the Monash at Home - Aged and Rehabilitation Care AHA team on the Monash Health AHA Leadership Group
- Work with mínimal supervision to implement therapeutic and related activities
- Demonstrate a sound knowledge of medical conditions, terminology, disease, and ageing process.
- Understand the basic theoretical principles of the work undertaken by their supervising Allied Health Professional

**About You**

You are passionate AHA with exceptional clinical knowledge and assessment skills, and ability to work with a range of stakeholders. You demonstrate this passion in delivering clinical care in the community setting and through working within a team in this field. You have a proven ability to deliver successful, timely outcomes?across service delivery, and you are an effective communicator who builds rapport rapidly, and whilst you can work autonomously, you are also a strong team player.

On a personal level, you can also demonstrate:

- Your forward-thinking approach to care - your ideas matter to us
- Enthusiasm for working in a multifaceted role
- Advanced clinical reasoning skills
- Ambition to grow your clinical skills and expand your knowledge
- Your proactive and team player attitude
- Your strong communication and interpersonal skills

**What you need**:

- Certificate IV Allied Health Assistance or equivalent as outlined in the Monash Health Credentialing Standards or in consultation with the Allied Health Assistant Advisor
- Greater than 2-4 years AHA experience in a hospital setting
- Current driver’s licence without restriction

**In return**:

- A supportive and cohesive team within a larger interdisciplinary setting
- Genuine career progression pathways
- Continual opportunities to use your drive for innovation to develop services to meet the changing landscape within the broader healthcare system
- For a confidential discussion and to explore the opportunity further, please call Jacinta Sadler, Allied Health and Psychology Manager - 0438 068 750_

**How to Apply**

We recognise the value of equal employment opportunity and we are committed to patient safety and promoting fairness, equity and diversity in the workplace. At Monash Health we are relentless in our pursuit of excellence and work to our six guiding principles and our five iCare values.

**Applications that are submitted via the Monash Health online Mercury System (e-recruit) are only accepted.