We’re excited to welcome an Internal Residential Aged Care Placement Clinical Assistant/Allied Health Assistant to our Social Work team. The Aged Care Placement Assistant role presents an opportunity to improve patient outcomes and enhance hospital efficiencies by streamlining the discharge of patients into residential aged care homes (RACHs) and/or home. The role focusses on assisting with building and maintaining strong relationships with local RACHs, collaborating with multidisciplinary teams and helping patients transition smoothly to appropriate care settings as described in the RACH discharge guideline. This role will further support the Hospital and Health Service (HHS) to facilitate timely identification of residential aged care home placements suitable to the needs of patients admitted in acute, sub-acute and interim care beds and transition patients back to the community.

Job details

We're excited to welcome an Internal Residential Aged Care Placement Clinical Assistant/Allied Health Assistant to our Social Work team.

The Aged Care Placement Assistant role presents an opportunity to improve patient outcomes and enhance hospital efficiencies by streamlining the discharge of patients into residential aged care homes (RACHs) and/or home. The role focusses on assisting with building and maintaining strong relationships with local RACHs, collaborating with multidisciplinary teams and helping patients transition smoothly to appropriate care settings as described in the RACH discharge guideline. This role will further support the Hospital and Health Service (HHS) to facilitate timely identification of residential aged care home placements suitable to the needs of patients admitted in acute, sub-acute and interim care beds and transition patients back to the community. 

Sunshine Coast Health is in southeast Queensland and extends through the coastal and hinterland areas from Caloundra in the south and Gympie in the north. 

Sunshine Coast Health is a values-based organisation. We are committed to the maintenance of a culture in which we treat our colleagues with respect as we do our patients, consumers and the community. We respect, protect and promote human rights in our decision-making and actions.

Key Responsibilities include:

• Assisting multidisciplinary teams with building and maintaining relationships with local RACHs.
• Maintaining updated records of relevant contacts within local RACHs to enable relationships between the HHS and RACH.
• Working cooperatively and effectively with patients, their families, carers, and other relevant stakeholders, as part of a multidisciplinary team, to provide high-quality, patient-centred care
• Actioning instructions from the primary clinician responsible for the patient to confirm the patient's clinical needs and ensure RACHs presented to the patient are suitable to accommodate their needs.  

Remuneration value up to $9866 p.m., comprising salary between $2624.50 - $2759.10p.f., employer contribution to superannuation (up to 12.75%) and annual leave loading (17.5%) (CA3) (Two Fixed Term Temporary Full-Time positions available for six months). Applications will remain current for the duration of the vacancy. Please note: only applications from candidates will be accepted (applications that may result in an agency fee will not be considered).

Why work for us?

We offer rewarding career opportunities across a wide range of clinical and non-clinical areas across our health service and pride ourselves on providing a work environment that is safe, satisfying, flexible, and promotes a healthy work-life balance.
As a Queensland Health employee, you will benefit from a higher than standard employer contribution to Superannuation of up to 12.75%, access to salary packaging, flexible working arrangements and competitive salary rates with annual incremental increases.
We are committed to providing a diverse and inclusive workplace for our people and our community. We encourage people of all genders, races, ages and abilities to apply for roles within our Health Service.
You can find out more about why it's so great to work at Sunshine Coast here: https://www.health.qld.gov.au/sunshinecoast/careers  

As a Sunshine Coast Health employee, you will receive competitive remuneration and have access to:
• A wellness program;
• Generous superannuation;
• Flexible work arrangements;
• Career training and development; and
• Salary packaging.

Check out the latest updates here:
https://www.sunshinecoast.health.qld.gov.au/   

Further information

We are committed to building inclusive cultures in the Queensland public sector that respect and promote human rights and diversity.

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Documents

Before applying for this vacancy please ensure you read the documents below.

• Information for Applicants, SCHHS (PDF, 1.79MB)
  Application Kit
  
  SC648836_RD (PDF, 397KB)
  Role Description