Aboriginal Family Support Worker

Location: Melbourne | Eastern Metropolitan

Job type: Full time

Organisation: Monash Health

**Salary**: Salary not specified

Occupation: Health and Allied Health

Reference: 55696
- Aboriginal Family Support Worker - New Infant Child and Family Health and Wellbeing Program Monash Health Community - Full Time

**This is designated position under s.12 Special Measures of the Equal Opportunity Act 2010. Only Australian Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people are eligible to apply**

**About Monash Health**

**About Monash Health in the Community**: Helping people live their best lives

As Monash Health in the Community, we actively engage with people to improve and maintain health, independence and well-being. We do this by coordinating and/or providing integrated, multidisciplinary care across multiple settings within the local community. Our aim is to help clients live their best lives by enabling them to access the support they need, when they need it.

Working with clients across the age spectrum, Monash Health in the Community provides a continuum of care, supporting clients through all stages of non-acute care from prevention through to rehabilitation.

We provide services to support clients in their homes, community based facilities and dedicated Monash Health Community hubs.
- We provide quality care focused on the person in the context of their life;
- We are interdisciplinary and innovative with a can-do attitude;
- We view change and challenge as great opportunities.

**Infant Child and Family Health and Wellbeing Hub**

The Infant Child and Family Health and Wellbeing Hub is a new service involving Community Health, Early in Life Mental Health Services, and external service providers. These services will provide therapy that considers all aspects of an infant's or child's life. These services will provide wellbeing support, peer support and care coordination to help with different kinds of challenges including difficulty in attending school and mental health concerns. The Infant, Child and Family Health and Wellbeing Hub will sit alongside ELHMS - Monash Childrens and the Child and Family Program - Monash Health Community

**About the Role**

To provide paediatric Aboriginal clients in the Infant Child and Family Hub with a holistic and culturally appropriate?journey through the hub. This should consider the social determinants of health which impact the Aboriginal Community. The role will also involve assisting and supporting clients and their families to navigate the health system. You will also be working with the multi-disciplinary?team in the care of Aboriginal children and their family whilst they are in the Hub.

You will function as a member of a dynamic multidisciplinary team and will work closely with team members to promote an integrated and holistic service. This challenging role offers a mix of case work, group work and linkage work to other community services.

The Aboriginal Family Support Worker will be required to work in any clinical area at any or all campuses of Monash Health as and when required. Such a requirement may be a temporary arrangement, on an ad hoc basis, or a permanent change.

Please refer to the Position Description attached for full details.

**You Are Also**:

- Dedicated to safe best practice & quality care
- Committed to delivering patient centered care & a patient advocacy
- Enthusiastic, compassionate & able to work collaboratively

**What You Need**:

- Working With Children's
- Police Check
- Driving License
- Australian working rights

**What's in it for you?**

You will be part of a dynamic changing environment that will have future growth. You will also have access to a range of corporate benefits, including salary packaging options that can significantly increase your take-home pay.

**How to Apply**

Monash Health recognises the value of equal employment opportunity and is 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.

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.