Job Summary
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- Job posted on: 14th Feb 2020
Full-time fixed term position available until 31 December 2020.
Reporting to the Parkville Hub Manager, the Enhanced Care Coordinator will work alongside the Parkville Hub leadership team providing increased capacity to engage and support young people with complex needs to seek and maintain their treatment within an enhanced primary care setting.
The Enhanced Care Coordinator will work closely with GP’s, Psychiatrists, and allied health contracted staff to facilitate coordinated care and treatment for young people experiencing complexity in regards to their mental health presentation. Working with the leadership team, this role will provide assessment, care planning, referral, advice and consultation services to young people, their families/carers and community professionals/agencies, and will have involvement in service development. The role will focus with community linkages and engaging young people in their own environments.
Please refer to the Position Description https://bit.ly/2SH3ysh for other duties, skills and experience required for this position.
Skills & Experience
Orygen is the world’s leading research and knowledge translation organisation focusing on mental ill-health in young people. Find out more on our website.
headspace is the National Youth Mental Health Foundation providing early intervention mental health services to 12-25 year olds, along with assistance in promoting young peoples’ wellbeing. This covers four core areas: mental health, physical health, work and study support and alcohol and other drug services. Find our more on the headspace website.
Orygen is an equal opportunity employer. We are dedicated to attracting, developing and retaining our staff irrespective of gender identity, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability and age. Applications are encouraged from all sectors of the community. We strongly encourage applications from the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community.
Orygen is committed to providing an inclusive work environment that supports employees to achieve their career goals without compromising their life goals. With this in mind Orygen offers a range of employment benefits including generous paid leave, flexible work arrangement, access to NFP salary packaging and an employee assistance program.