Allied Health Assistant

Location: Melbourne | Eastern Metropolitan

Job type: Not provided

Organisation: Monash Health

**Salary**: Salary not specified

Occupation: Health and Allied Health

Reference: 55734

Monash Health Community Rehabilitation is excited to announce a part time 4 day position for a Grade 3 Allied Health Assistant with the Dandenong/Springvale Community Rehabilitation teams.
- Work as part of a inter-disciplinary team
- Play an key role in the supporting the team enhance the client's journey in Monash Health Community
- Enviable professional and leadership development opportunities available

**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 access to 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 client 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

**About The Role**

We are advertising for a Grade 3 AHA to join the Dandenong/Springvale Community Rehabilitation Teams for 4 days a week (0.8 EFT). The role will involve individual and group work under the delegation of Allied Health Professionals, working at the centre, using telehealth, and visiting clients in their homes. You will be a vital member of the intra
- disciplinary team, assist our clients to meet their rehabilitation goals.

**About You**

You are an enthusiastic and experienced Allied Health Assistant with a passion for assisting clients to live their best lives. You relish the opportunity to work with clients in the community and are ready to work flexibly with the Community Rehabilitation Teams.

**What You Need**:

- Certificate IV (Allied Health Assistant), or equivalent
- Greater than 3 years AHA Experience in health care or aged care setting
- Current Victorian Driver's Licence
- Experience in a hospital/rehabilitation or appropriate community setting
- A positive approach
- Ability to work independently
- Dedicated to safe best practice and quality care
- You are an advocate for Monash Health's Strategic Guiding Principles

***What We Offe**r**:

- access to Monash Health in-house learning portals to further expand your acute clinical skills & knowledge base
- a supportive learning environment
- ongoing supervision and professional development
- avenues to further develop your leadership skills
- access to benefits including salary packaging to increase your take home pay, access to onsite staff car parking and the Employee Assistance Program.

**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.