Job description
Reference Number 59224
Employment Type Part Time Ongoing
Entity Monash Health
Department Child and Family Program - Monash Health Community
Location Monash Health Community
Position Summary
Good supervision structure
Inservice Training both discipline and Multidisciplinary
Ability to gain experience from experienced Paediatric Clinicians
About Monash Health in the Community: Helping people live their best lives
As Monash Health in the Community, we actively engage with people to improve and maintain health, independence and well-being. We do this by coordinating and/or providing integrated, multidisciplinary care across multiple settings within the local community. Our aim is to help clients live their best lives by enabling them to access the support they need, when they need it.
Working with clients across the age spectrum, Monash Health in the Community provides a continuum of care, supporting clients through all stages of non-acute care from prevention through to rehabilitation.
We provide services to support clients in their homes, community based facilities and dedicated Monash Health Community hubs.
We provide quality care focused on the person in the context of their life;
We are interdisciplinary and innovative with a can-do attitude;
We view change and challenge as great opportunities.
Child and Family Program including Healthy Mothers and Healthy babies and School Readiness
The Child and Family Program is comprised of numerous disciplines that focus on the assessment and delivery of child and family focused care. The program consists of Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists, Speech Pathologists, Dieticians, Exercise Physiologist, Podiatrists and Psychologists, Counsellor, Social Worker, Family Support worker and Community Development worker. The team is committed to working with communities, families and individuals who have poor health outcomes and to providing high quality, multidisciplinary programs which embrace child and family centred practice, evidence based practice and the Social Model of Health.
About the Role
The Grade 1/2 Paediatric Occupational Therapist will work within the community health directorate and will be required to provide an efficient, high-quality service across the region in various settings. You will function as a member of a dynamic multi-disciplinary team, working closely with team members from the Child family program to promote an integrated and holistic service.
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