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• Skilled and committed, enthusiastic team
• Active collegial, group of Children's Grade Threes
• Opportunity for talented leader
About Peninsula Health
Peninsula Health provides public healthcare services to residents of the Mornington Peninsula.
Our hospitals and emergency departments are located at Frankston and Rosebud, and we provide a wide range of community health, dental, rehabilitation, mental health, palliative care ad aged care services from campuses at Frankston, Hastings, Mornington and Rosebud.
Person centred care is at the heart of everything we do, guided by our values of Services, Integrity, Compassion, Respect and Excellence.
For more information on Peninsula health please feel welcome to visit our website http://www.peninsulahealth.org.au/
Position Summary
The Children’s Services Team Leaders work closely together to support the Children’s Services team staff to deliver high quality, child-centred and family focused child development services for families in the City of Frankston and the Mornington Peninsula Shire. The two team leaders take a primary focus over one City or Shire. We aim to deliver safe, personal, connected and effective care to every person, every time. This position supports staff to deliver clinical services to children, families and groups, and engage in capacity building and local partnerships. The incumbent ensures preventative, responsive and innovative client engagement and interventions are fundamental to staff practices. Services delivered derive from a range of funding sources and models. As a Senior Clinician, the Team Leader also provides clinical supervision to Grade 1 & 2 Clinicians of the same discipline where relevant in the team structure.
Key Responsibilities
• In conjunction with the Children’s Team Leadership team, comprising other team leaders and program manager, develop and deliver integrated, collaborative services for children in the catchment and ensure a cohesive and integrated team approach across local teams.
• Provide operational leadership for the multidisciplinary team across multiple campuses.
• Provide senior clinician level expertise in your profession to same-profession team members, either as clinical lead or in negotiated role with the clinical lead.
• Provide clinical supervision to Grade 1 &2 clinicians and students of the same profession in accordance with the Allied Health policy where relevant.
• Initiate and lead relevant quality activities and research projects.
• Utilizing evidence-based current best practice interventions, manage a clinical caseload providing short-term individual services to children and families with a variety of presentations in a family-centred manner.
• Contribute to sector and organizational leadership.
• Support a child safe organisation by valuing, respecting, and listening to children and young people and by undertaking screening for suitability to work with children and vulnerable people and to comply with relevant state/territory legislative requirements.
Essential Criteria
• Tertiary qualification in allied health or medical science discipline.
• Hold and maintain current practicing membership of the relevant professional body and/or full registration with AHPRA where available.
• Demonstrated capacity for operational leadership and supervision in early years/children’s services.
• Sound understanding and demonstrated application of the social model of health.
• Demonstrated capacity to effectively lead and organise a multidisciplinary team of health professionals.
• Broad understanding of a range of both therapeutic and sector capacity-building approaches applicable to the community health setting and to child health.
• Ability to support staff in capacity building, promote professional competence and foster positive team relations.
• Highly developed communication skills including negotiation, conflict resolution, supporting change processes and creative problem solving.
• Excellent time management and adaptability
• Demonstrated initiative, innovation and ability to contribute to the development of new/improved services through quality or research activities.
• Excellent skills using data and reporting on service outputs and outcomes.
• Holder of a current ‘Working with Children Check’ ,willingness undergoing police check
Benefits
• Opportunity to influence child development outcomes with active partnerships across the sector
• Career and professional development training available
• Salary packaging
How to apply
To apply for this position via Seek, please click on 'Apply for this Position' which will re-direct you to our careers page. From our Careers page, to apply or to continue with your application from Seek please click on 'Apply Now' and follow the below steps to finalise your application:
Existing Account Users:
1. Click 'Sign in' and follow the prompts to upload your Resume, document addressing the Key Selection Criteria and Cover letter
New Account Users:
1. Click 'Register' to create an account
2. Once registered, click 'Sign in' in the top right hand corner
3. Type in the reference number (located at the top of the ad)
4. Re click 'Apply Now’ and follow the prompts to upload your Resume and Cover letter
If you experience any issues signing in or registering to our careers page, please feel welcome to contact our HR Hotline on 03 9784 2700.
If you have any questions specific to the positon you are applying for, please feel welcome to contact the hiring manager via the contact details below.
Other Information
• Ensuring the health and safety of our patients, visitors and staff is at the heart of everything we do. As part of this commitment, all new members of our team must complete a National Criminal History Records Check, meet the immunisation requirements of their role and demonstrate evidence of current work rights to work in Australia prior to commencement. You may also be required to provide a Working With Children Check card. To find out more about our quality employment standards and to prepare your application to join our team please visit: https://www.peninsulahealth.org.au/careers/working-preparing-employment/
• Peninsula Health is committed to providing positive employment opportunities and outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and welcome employment applications from candidates of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander background.
• Peninsula Health believes in the strength of a diverse and inclusive workforce where each person’s uniqueness is valued. Peninsula Health believes that by embracing the diverse life experiences and perspectives of our people, we will provide high-quality health care to all members of our community – regardless of gender, age, ethnicity, cultural background, disability, religion or sexual orientation.
• Peninsula Health ensures the safety and wellbeing of Victorians living with a disability and will conduct an additional pre-employment check prior to making an offer of employment to a potential employee. This safeguard strengthens existing pre-employment screening processes to better protect people with disability who access disability services.
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