- Part Time or Full Time Ongoing opportunity + TRP Starting from $107,143 pa including super (Pro Rata Part Time) + Salary packaging benefits
- Brimbank/Melton locations + Flexible hybrid working model
- Excellent leadership opportunity to support the co-design of Infant Child and Family Health and Wellbeing Hub!
We are One Team IPC Health, we are passionate, creative and we make a difference.
We are leaders and changemakers in community health — a team of innovative and passionate health and wellbeing professionals, delivering holistic services through personalised care and empowerment. We support healthy and empowered communities through innovative prevention and care.
The Opportunity
IPC Health have partnered with Western Health and the Royal Children’s Hospital to co-design and lead the Brimbank Melton Infant Child and Family Health and Wellbeing Hub!
The Hub will provide a ‘one-stop-shop’ supporting infants, children and families, delivering services like psychology and psychiatry, allied health, family supports and paediatric care. People with lived experience will also form an important part of the Hub’s workforce. The service will support children aged 0-11 who are experiencing developmental, behavioural or emotional challenges and their families, and will focus on early intervention and providing age-appropriate care.
Based at a new site in Brimbank or Melton, the Hub will offer a holistic and family centred specialist intake assessment including autism and developmental assessments, helping families identify their needs and access the right services within the Hub, or with partner community health services or family services in the broader service system.
The Hub will not just treat, but also aim to build family capacity and capability!
The Team Leader of the Infant, Child and Family Health and Wellbeing Hub will be responsible for facilitating a collaborative, high functioning service delivery team which spans across three agencies and a variety of disciplines.
Expand your leadership capabilities in this newly designed role where you will lead a multidisciplinary team to delivery family centred care as well as deliver services in your field of expertise within the Hub. In this diverse role, you will be responsible for ensuring delivery of operational plans are executed timely, oversee shared team accountability relating to key activities, and management of qualitative and quantitive reports for funding agencies. With a risk management focus, you will identify project and program risks and implement risk management strategies. This exciting role will see you contribute to the co-design, co-planning and co-delivery activities to build the Hub to achieve a high functioning and meaningful service for our community.
This opportunity is a 0.8 – 1FTE Ongoing position with flexibility to consider Part Time with a minimum 0.8FTE commitment. The role is classified under either enterprise agreement depending on your relevant field and qualification
- Community Health Centre (Stand Alone Services) Social and Community Service Employees Multi Enterprise Agreement 2017.
- Victorian Stand Alone Community Health Centres, Health Professionals Multi-Employer Agreement 2017-2021
- Nurses and Midwives (Victorian Public Sector) (Single Interest Employers) Enterprise Agreement 2020-2024
You will make a difference by
- Leading a multidisciplinary team to deliver family centred, evidenced based care, identifying opportunities to enhance workforce capability in responding to community needs
- Inspiring growth, creative thinking and deep understanding of community and client needs amongst team members and key stakeholders
- Leveraging partnerships to resolve complex issues
To succeed, you will need
- A tertiary qualification in Allied Health, Nursing or Social Work or relevant certification as a Lived Experience Worker
- Demonstrated experience leading multidisciplinary teams in a public health setting
- Demonstrated experience working with families, children and diverse community members
- Demonstrated experience in stakeholder engagement
- Strong understanding of the social determinants of health
- High level of emotional intelligence and leadership capability to effectively coach and strengthen team collaboration, encouraging team members to develop new ways of working and adopt shared accountability
- A current and valid Victorian driver’s licence
What next?
All you need to do is read the role’s Success Profile, submit your resume and answer a couple of questions.
To find out more about the role, please contact – Danielle Barth, Senior Manager Community Care on 0422 320 150.
Applications close 11 October 2022.
We are committed to maintaining a barrier-free environment for all and welcome individuals of diverse backgrounds, including but not limited to, those from the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, Culturally and Linguistically Diverse and the LGBTI communities to apply for our job opportunities.
If you require a reasonable workplace adjustment to support you during the interview process please email [email protected] with your request. Reasonable workplace adjustments are changes that are necessary and achievable to enable a person to efficiently perform their role to the best of their abilities. A reasonable workplace adjustment can be requested at any time in the recruitment process or as a part of employment with IPC Health.