Community Care Partner

mercyagedcare; Melbourne; On-site; AUD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Mercy Health in Victoria is seeking a dedicated Community Care Partner to join the South East region in a full-time capacity. You will deliver care management activities enabling older people to live safely and independently at home, within a rights-based, person-centred framework.

Collaborating with participants, supporters and interdisciplinary teams, you will coordinate tailored, responsive and inclusive support, with duties spanning care planning, service coordination and risk-aware,

Qualifications

• Excellent time management, organisational and communication skills.
• A compassionate, flexible and positive approach to effective client care and management.
• The ability to nurture friendly, respectful relationships and contribute to a collaborative team environment.
• NDIS Screening Check is required or in the process of obtaining.

Responsibilities

• Care planning: including reviewing care plans and budgets.
• Service planning and management: including working with clients, their registered supporters and formal carers delivering care within the government guidelines.
• Monitoring, reviewing and evaluating care: with a focus on wellness and re-enablement but also identifying risks and supporting culturally safe care.
• Support and education: including helping clients and their supporters to make informed decisions or access other ageing-related programs.

Skills

Time management

Organisation

Communication

Compassion

Teamwork

Job description

Employment Type: Full Time

Hours: 38 Hours

Location: South East Region

Contact: Fuemana Christina Fuemana Email [e-mail]

Where there's life, there's Mercy.

Where there's care, there's You.

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For over a century, our incredible teams have provided care for people when they need it most. Our people feel great pride in this, and they value the security and stability we offer. But it also means so much opportunity - to build on all that's gone before, to grow your impact and gain experience that's hard to find elsewhere.

As a for-purpose organisation with over 10,000 dedicated, compassionate people, we continue to offer more services and deeper care than ever before. With Mercy, you'll have the chance to make an impact and gain experience that's hard to find elsewhere.

At Mercy Health, it's all about taking what we have and making it better.

To do that, we need you.

Join us at Mercy Health, and help our teams deliver even greater outcomes.

About the opportunity

The Community Care Partner is a full-time position based in the South East region.

The Community Care Partner under the Support at Home Program, is responsible for delivering care management activities that enable older people to live safely and independently at home.

Working within a rights-based, person-centred framework, the Care Partner Community collaborates with participants, their supporters, and interdisciplinary teams to coordinate tailored, responsive and inclusive support.

Working within a Shared Care Team, the Care Partner Community role will include:

• Care planning: including reviewing care plans and budgets
• Service planning and management: including working with clients, their registered supporters and formal carer's delivering care within the government guidelines
• Monitoring, reviewing and evaluating care: with a focus on wellness and re-enablement but also identifying risks and supporting culturally safe care.
• Support and education: including helping clients and their supporters to make informed decisions or access other ageing-related programs.

The Care Partner Community has a key role in planning and overseeing care service delivery across all support streams, including the End-of-Life Pathway, and Assistive Technology and Home Modifications (AT-HM), and work closely with the Clinical Care Partners and Senior Care Partner when a participant's needs require advanced clinical input or complex care planning.

What you'll bring

You're resilient, compassionate and have a whole lot of heart. Most importantly, you are committed to delivering exceptional patient-centred care.

To thrive in this role, you will have:

• Excellent time management, organisational and communication skills, with the ability to adapt and problem solve
• A compassionate, flexible and positive approach to effective client care and management.
• The ability to nurture friendly, respectful relationships and contribute to a collaborative team environment

You will also be required to provide evidence of, or in the process of obtaining:

• A current NDIS Screening Check.

Ready to help us shape the future of healthcare?

Join us and make a meaningful difference in people's lives - and your career.

We acknowledge the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung peoples, traditional Custodians of the Land in which our Head Office is based, on traditional lands of the Kulin Nation and recognise their deep connections to the land, sea, and culture.

We extend this acknowledgment to the many Traditional Lands that we operate across Australia and pay our respects to Elders past and present.

The team at Mercy Health is as wonderfully diverse as the patients, residents, clients and communities we support. We're proud to be recognised as an Employer of Choice for Gender Equality by the Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA). Mercy Health strongly encourages applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, and people of all ages, sexualities, genders, abilities and cultural backgrounds.