Job Description:

• Excellent benefits including salary packaging

• Challenging and rewarding work environment

• Friendly and supportive team environment

• Fixed term part time 16 hours per week from 4 August 2025 - 28 November 2025 and then an increase to 32 hours per week from 1 December 2025 - 21 August 2026.

About the Role
You will work within a flexible multidisciplinary structure that ensures the delivery of high-quality assessment and management services to Memory and Geriatric clients making sure that the clients and families needs are met in a timely manner. The role is currently based at St Georges Hospital Kew. You will conduct triage comprehensive pre-clinic assessments develop the clients care plan and provide ongoing education and service linkage for clients and families as appropriate.

You will be the patient and familys contact person throughout their journey

Classifications for this position will range from classification range VG3 - VG6 ($104135.20 - $118981.20 per annum).

Your Contribution

• You will have a Bachelor of Allied Health discipline (eg Social Work Occupational Therapist Speech Pathologist) or equivalent or Bachelor of Nursing with minimum of 7 years of Allied Health Aged Care or Nursing experience with dementia and/or psychiatric illness in aged clinical populations in a community based multidisciplinary setting.

• Extensive knowledge and experience of dementia syndromes and psychiatric illness in aged clinical population and their management.

• Detailed knowledge of dementia and aged care service systems and community supports for clients/carers.

• Demonstrated ability to work in multidisciplinary teams at an advanced level.

• High level of understanding of the impact of a diagnosis of dementia on the individual and their families

• Highly developed assessment skills Ability to provide post diagnosis education counselling and future care planning to families/ carers.

• Highly developed individual family work and crisis intervention skills

• Highly developed interpersonal skills. These should incorporate qualities of excellent communication (verbal and written) and skills in collaboration negotiation and conflict management

• Current National criminal history check or willing to obtain

What we offer
Salary Packaging Increase your take home pay!
Employee Assistance Program
Culture of continuous improvement

About CDAMS and Geriatric Medicine Clinics - Health Independence Program (HIP)
The CDAMS & Geriatric Medicine Clinics are part of the HIP Specialist Clinics. Services may be provided in the clients home or in the centre. The role involves interaction with GPs medical specialists clients family and carers other SVHM and HIP services.

Working at St Vincents
St Vincents Hospital Melbourne (SVHM) is a leading teaching research and tertiary health service. SVHM provides a diverse range of adult clinical services and is driven by values of Compassion Justice Integrity and Excellence.

Application

Please attach your resume and cover letter to your application.

Shortlisting for this position will commence immediately. We encourage you to apply promptly as the advertisement may close early should a suitable applicant be sourced.

We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and abilities. Inclusion is essential to our mission and diversity reflects the community we serve.

Please visit our website for further information regarding our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Employment at SVHM

SVHA has a duty of care under work health and safety legislation to eliminate and/or control the risk of transmission of vaccine preventable diseases in healthcare settings. You may therefore be required to undergo mandatory immunisations/vaccinations (including flu vaccinations). Please contact us if you would like to know more.

Contact

Jade Birks

Vicki McCracken

This position is part of the Health Independence Program (HIP). The intent of HIP is to deliver improved outcomes for cliennts and to support hospital demand management and flow through delivering integrated and coordinated care to clients across the hospital and community interface reducing duplication and fragmentation of services and ensuring client centred care planning.

SVHM HIP consists of integrated hub sites across several locations including in Fitzroy Kew North Richmond and Fairfield.

This position will be part of HIP Access Rehab and Clinics stream based in the Cognitive Dementia & Memory Service (CDAMS GMC) Team. This position may be required to work at any of the HIP hub sites or programs. This will be at the discretion of the HIP manager and will take into consideration appropriate skills and training.

HIP at SVHM is delivered in partnership with North Richmond Community Health (NRCH)

• Act as key contact for memory clients and geriatric medical clinic clients
• Provide efficient high quality triage and timely assessments treatment plans and management of clients throughout the continuum of care in the most appropriate location based on the clients needs.
• Provide high quality education counselling and future planning to clients carers and families
• Use a wide range of clinical skills to enhance the client and familys experience of this clinic and achieve positive client and family outcomes
• Assess manage and discharge all assigned clients according to procedures and relevant protocols.
• Communicate client issues effectively with other team members and lead / chair multidisciplinary team meetings.
• Timely liaison of issues with team members and identify and implement solutions
• Supervision guidance and support to Grade 2 Key Workers

• Provide cover for Memory & Geriatric Medicine Team Leader in terms of ensuring smooth day to day operation of service efficient use of resources allocation of clients and problem solving issues.
• Establish develop and maintain strong and positive working relationships within the HIP team referral sources participating agencies and other service providers.

• Ensure optimal use of clinical capacity regularly monitor capacity including for any gaps that may occur due to late changes/ cancellations to client appointments.

• Actively lead quality improvement initiatives (includes working groups projects audits continuous improvement initiatives) to improve the service and Health Independence Program
• Achieve set activity targets and complete activity statistics by end of working week or end of month (whichever comes first)

General Obligations

• Perform duties of the position to best of their ability and to a standard acceptable to SVHM.
• Comply with all SVHM policies procedures by laws and directions.
• Treat others with respect and always behave professionally and in accordance with the SVHM Code of Conduct.
• Only access confidential information held by SVHM when this is necessary for business purposes maintaining the confidentiality of that information once accessed.
• Participate in the annual SVHM performance review process.
• Participate in student placements as appropriate to clinical role.
• Display adaptability and flexibility to meet the changing operational needs of the business.
• Comply with applicable Enterprise Bargaining Agreement provisions.
• Display a willingness to develop self and seek to improve performance.

Clinical Quality and Safety Obligations

• Attend clinical orientation upon commencement.
• Maintain clinical registration participate in supervisory relationships adheres to professional development expectations and maintains any required indemnity cover.
• Always work within approved scope of practice under supervision by more senior clinical staff as appropriate.
• Take personal responsibility for the quality and safety of work undertaken.
• Take all necessary care and precautions when undertaking clinical procedures.
• Complete annual clinical competencies.
• Maintain skills and knowledge necessary to safely and skilfully undertake clinical work.
• Consult with peers and other experts and refer to other healthcare workers when appropriate and in a timely manner.
• Collaborate and clearly communicate with patients/clients and the healthcare team.
• Participate in clinical risk management and continuous quality improvement activities as part of day-to-day work.

Person Centred Care Obligations

• Ensure consumers receive information in an appropriate and accessible format.
• Actively support consumers tomake informed decisions about their treatment and ongoing care.
• Ensure consumers are aware of their rights and responsibilities and how to provide feedback.
• Participate in the active engagement clients and their family/carers in order to obtain feedback and evaluation of HIP service.

Health and Safety Obligations

• Protect the health and safety of self and others complying with all health and safety related policies procedures and directions.

• Complete required Fire and Emergency Training annually.

• Complete required Workplace Culture and Equity Training annually.
• Complete other mandatory training and locally determined requirements.

The incumbent of this position will be expected to possess the following core capabilities:

Capability

Demonstrated behaviour

Personal

Personal effectiveness

Takes responsibility for accurate timely work results

Learning Agility

Identifies personal development needs and seeks information from a range of sources

Outcomes

Patient/Resident/client centred

Strives to meet and exceed expectations demonstrating sound judgement

Innovation and Improvement

Contributes to improvement by reviewing strengths and weaknesses of current processes

Strategy

Driving Results

Manages own work load to deliver results

Organisational Acumen

Understands the interdependencies between units/departments

People

Working with and Managing others

Takes responsibility for ensuring productive efficient teamwork

Collaboration

Works collaboratively within and outside the team

• Bachelor of Allied Health discipline or equivalent or Bachelor of Nursing or equivalent
• Post graduate qualifications highly regarded

• Current registration with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) (if required)
• Eligibility for membership of relevant discipline association
• Evidence of ongoing education/professional development relevant to cognitive dementia and memory services and/or Aged Care.

• Victorian Licence

• Minimum 7 years of Allied Health Aged Care or Nursing experience with dementia and/or psychiatric illness in aged clinical populations in a community based multidisciplinary setting.
• Extensive knowledge and experience of dementia syndromes and psychiatric illness in aged clinical population and their management.
• Detailed knowledge of dementia and aged care service systems and community supports for clients/carers.
• Demonstrated ability to work in multidisciplinary teams at an advanced level.
• High level of understanding of the impact of a diagnosis of dementia on the individual and their families
• Highly developed assessment skills Ability to provide post diagnosis education counselling and future care planning to families/ carers.
• Highly developed individual family work and crisis intervention skills
• Highly developed interpersonal skills. These should incorporate qualities of excellent communication (verbal and written) and skills in collaboration negotiation and conflict management
• High level computer skills
• Highly developed organisational planning and problem solving skills

Closing Date:

Reconciliation Action Plan:

At St Vincents we acknowledge the importance of creating a work environment that is welcoming safe equitable and inclusive for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Employees. As part of our Commitment to Reconciliation and Closing the Gap in employment related outcomes we encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples.

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Code of Conduct:

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