Bereavement Navigator - Adults in the Community (Mount Gambier)

Position: Bereavement Navigator

Working Location: Mount Gambier

Classification: DGP5, RN2, PO2 (dependent on qualification and experience)

Job Status: Full Time, up to 1.0 FTE

Pay: $89,267 - $102,510 per annum (Pro Rata + Super + Leave Loading + Salary Packaging)

Applications Closing Date: 5pm, Monday 16th February 2024.

Thank you for your interest in applying for the position of Bereavement Navigator with FocusOne Health. FocusOne Health is a purpose led, Not for Profit, organisation with strong organisational values and culture. To find out more about our organisation, please visit www.focusonehealth.com.au/about.

The Palliative Care Connect Bereavement Navigation Service, funded under the SA Palliative Care Navigation Pilot, will strengthen the identification and management of grief and bereavement needs, promote awareness, and normalise discussions surrounding death and dying matters in community settings across South Australia. This Pilot will run until June 2025.

Bereavement Navigators will provide appropriate information, service linkages, and advocacy to consumers requiring grief and bereavement supports, their families, caregivers, and healthcare professionals statewide via a centralised telephone line and telehealth. 

Bereavement Navigators will also provide age-group specific face-to-face services in the following locations: 

• Paediatrics: metropolitan Adelaide
• Adolescents and young adults: Riverland (based in Berri) 
• Adults in the Community: Mount Gambier 

Bereavement Navigators will also engage with government and private organisations, community stakeholders, healthcare providers, and support networks to increase grief and bereavement capabilities, and identify and manage grief and bereavement in the Community. 

Candidates with relevant qualification in health/allied health (or other related qualification) and/or 3-5 years of related professional experience, along with essential skills such as communication, problem-solving, and adaptability, and demonstrated cultural, spiritual, and emotional competency to effectively engage with clients from diverse backgrounds and communities, accommodating varying levels of health literacy, while maintaining safe practices and environment, are encouraged to apply. 

FocusOne Health offers a supportive environment, working with a team of dedicated and professional practitioners and organisational specialists, to support your professional development.

We are committed to achieving a diverse workforce and strongly encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. 

The successful applicant will be remunerated in accordance with FocusOne Health’s EBA dependent on skills, experience, and qualifications. We offer flexible terms and conditions and attractive salary packaging arrangements. For more information about salary packaging, please visit Discover salary packaging - Community Business Bureau (cbb.com.au). 

Comprehensive onboarding and induction to the role will be provided to the successful applicant. 

We reserve the right to appoint to the role prior to the application closure date.

Applicants are required to address the Selection Criteria of the Job Description in their cover letter in order to be considered. 

Please visit www.focusonehealth.com.au/careers to view the Job Description.

Your application addressing the selection criteria and current resume, including contact details for 3 referees, are to be emailed to ****@focusonehealth.com.au 

Further information can be obtained by contacting James Cheesman, Clinical Governance Manager at FocusOne Health on (08) 8582 3***.