Regional Carer Support Advisor - Latrobe Valley

Carers Victoria is the peak body for unpaid carers in Victoria. Our purpose is to advance understanding of Victoria’s unpaid carers and improve their access to assistance. Our teams provide services and advice for carers living in Victoria including education workshops, programs, and events across the state.

The Position 

The Regional Carer Support Advisor will organise and deliver a new suite of local group programs of activities to connect and support unpaid carers in specific regional communities.

This is one of three new roles that Carers Victoria is establishing in regional Victoria, so we are looking for someone with strong organisational skills, the ability to work with carers from diverse backgrounds to effectively support their engagement in local respite activities and the ability to build and sustain strong relationships with local providers and potential referrers will be pivotal.

Key aspects of the role include:

• Organising, promoting, coordinating, and facilitating various kinds of local, group-based carer respite activities for unpaid carers in target catchment/s.
• Developing local referral and support networks to build effective partnerships that benefit carers, maximise impact of new Carers Victoria programs in those catchments and support overall integration of local supports.
• Effective assessment of carer support needs utilising established tools - primarily via phone-based assessments - including risk and safety assessments, linkage to local support services and associated management of identified in-scope carer needs. This will include responding to calls via the Carers Victoria Statewide Advisory Service.
• Gathering data and reporting on activities, including both output and outcome measures, using established tools and frameworks.

The Offer

• This role will be heavily based in Latrobe Valley, with the successful candidate delivering face to face group programs, attending meetings with local stakeholders and participating in other face to face activities across the catchment.
• Phone and desk-based elements of the role can be completed from home and/or an agreed local location. Carers Victoria will supply the necessary IT to support that arrangement. There might be some opportunities to work remotely to connect and contribute to the greater team.
• Part-time position at 0.4 FTE, with some flexibility to negotiate hours and days of work.
• $86,000 gross pro rata salary + super + not-for-profit salary packaging available.
• Contract until June 2025

Further Information

If you would like more information about this role, please email [email protected] using the subject line: Regional Carer Support Advisor - Latrobe Valley enquiry via EthicalJobs.

Please note: the successful applicant will be required to undergo pre-employment checks including but not limited to a national police check, Working with Children Check and reference checks.

Carers Victoria is an equal opportunity employer and encourages applications from people from culturally diverse backgrounds, linguistically diverse people, Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander peoples, members of the LGBTIQA+ communities and people with disabilities.

Carers Victoria is committed to maintaining a diverse workforce that reflects the diverse needs of the people we support. We draw pride and strength from our diversity and actively foster an inclusive workplace that celebrates the contribution made by all our people. Carers Victoria is also committed to protecting the best interests and safety of children and vulnerable people.