• Servicing Metropolitan Melbourne
• 12 month Fixed Term
• Full Time
• Highly engaged and professional team
• Supportive and flexible working environment

Are you a proactive, skilled, flexible team player with previous NDIS Support Coordination experience and qualifications in Allied Health or equivalent discipline? 

Do you want to work in a forward-thinking workplace where 84% of employees are engaged? And where 97% of staff know how their work contributes to the goals of the organisation? (source: Leisure Networks Staff Survey, Dec 2019)

This is a fantastic opportunity for you to be innovative and to make a real difference to the lives of the people we work with and their families.

We are looking for someone with experience and qualifications in Social Work, Allied Health or equivalent discipline with relevant field experience as per the NDIA quality and safeguarding framework requirement.

Support Coordination is an NDIS funded support that is designed build capacity and support NDIS Participants to strengthen informal supports, exercise choice and control over their lives using their NDIS funding and linking to community and mainstream services and supports.

A Support Coordinator will work with an individual and their support networks to determine how their funds will be most appropriately spent and what services and supports need to be engaged.

Specialist Support Coordinators are responsible for providing intensive, time limited support coordination to participants with complex needs, behaviours of concern, medical needs, or other high risk circumstances, or where the National Disability Insurance Agency has deemed it reasonable and necessary to fund Specialist Support Coordination in their plan. The Specialist Support Coordinator works with these participants to resolve points of crisis, assists in risk management procedures, provides informed choice and decision making to the participants about a wide range of services and supports, interfaces with mainstream and community services and ensures a high quality of integration of service delivery for these participants.

The Specialist Support Coordinator will utilise their qualified expertise, knowledge and experience to guide staff and lead the delivery of innovative and person-centred supports.

Support Coordination is about:

• Facilitating expansive conversations about what is possible with a person’s NDIS funds;
• Connecting to mainstream and funded services and supports;
• Building capacity to exercise choice and control; and,
• Supporting customers to navigate the NDIS and find providers that are the best option for them.

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