Diabetes Educator

• Two positions - Diabetes Connect Program and Diabetes Multidisciplinary Team (MDT) service
• Part Time (0.4FTE) Fixed term until 30 June 2025 (Connect Program) and Part Time (0.8 FTE) until 2nd March 2025 (MDT)
• $57.51 per hr + 11% super + Salary Packaging Benefits
• Classification dependent on health profession
• Deer Park and Wyndham Vale locations with onsite parking

We are One Team IPC Health, we are passionate, creative and we make a difference.

We deliver innovative high-quality services that are client centred, collaborative, coordinated and demonstrate value through measured impact. We are a not-for-profit community health service committed to working with the rapidly growing areas of Melbourne’s middle and outer West, where population will grow by 400,000 in the coming 15 years. By year 2035, we anticipate that the total population served will be approximately 1.2 million.

The Opportunity

Connect Program

IPC Health has received Department funding until June 2025 to provide a Diabetes Connect Program. Diabetes Connect is a community-based integrated care pathway focusing on improving health and wellbeing outcomes for people with type 2 diabetes and improving coordination between primary, community and acute care services. The multidisciplinary team will comprise of Diabetes Educators, Wellbeing Coordinators, Service navigators, Podiatry and linked medical, nursing and allied health services.

We are looking for Diabetes Educators to:

Join the Connect Program or MDT Team

Work in partnership with clients and their families/carers to provide health education, therapeutic management and support services as required for diabetes prevention and/or management within a chronic condition self-management framework. The Diabetes Educators will work within a multidisciplinary team to address identified education and self-management opportunities with the clients.

To succeed, you will need

A post graduate qualification in Diabetes Education from a recognised university and have registration with AHPRA.  You will also need to be a credentialed Diabetes Educator or working towards status of Credentialed through the ADEA credentialing program.

What next?

If you are passionate, creative and make a difference, we want to hear from you. All you need to do is visit our careers page, read the role’s Success Profile and submit your resume, cover letter and a document outlining how you meet our minimum ‘to succeed’ criteria.

To find out more about the role, please contact Nicole Durovic, Senior Clinician Diabetes Education, via email **************@ipchealth.com.au

Applications close 15th March 2024 at midnight

Our Story

We are One Team IPC Health. We are passionate we go above and beyond, demonstrating understanding and respect for our communities and each other. We make a difference we act with purpose, measure our results and celebrate our achievements. We are creative we learn, experiment and innovate.

At IPC Health, we are visionaries for community health and wellbeing. We are changemakers. Innovation in action is at the heart of everything we do, because we know that innovation can create amazing change and have an incredible and far reaching impact for individuals, our communities, and for our industry. We prioritise those who face obstacles to getting health services tailored to their needs and work with and for them in a deeply connected way. This enables us to acutely understand their needs and challenges. We live and breathe our passion to create new and better ways to deliver holistic health services for our vastly different and diverse clients and communities – so that they can thrive and experience greater health and wellbeing both individually and together.

We are committed to maintaining a barrier-free environment for all and welcome individuals of diverse backgrounds, including but not limited to, those from the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, Culturally and Linguistically Diverse and the LGBTI communities to apply for our job opportunities.

If you require a reasonable workplace adjustment to support you during the interview process please email *******@ipchealth.com.au with your request. Reasonable workplace adjustments are changes that are necessary and achievable to enable a person to efficiently perform their role to the best of their abilities. A reasonable workplace adjustment can be requested at any time in the recruitment process or as a part of employment with IPC Health.