Support Coordinators - Multiple positions across Melbourne region
The Neami Group, Australia
Job Description
We are looking for experienced NDIS Support Coordinators who are passionate about empowering and enhancing the lives of those living with a mental illness.
About the role
- Short term contract until December 2021
- Full Time or Part Time roles available across Melbourne
- Level 3 SCHCDS Award: Between $64,299 - $68,962 p.a (pro rata) + super + salary packaging up to $15k tax free pay per FBT year.
- Location: Melbourne (across multiple sites)
- Flexible Work from home options
What you will be doing?
The NDIS program aims to support consumers with a severe and persistent mental illness/psychiatric disability, who have been referred with individually funded packages. These packages are tailored to provide a range of services and interventions to address the consumer’s individual needs. The role of the Support Coordinator is to provide assistance to strengthen participants’ abilities to coordinate and implement their own supports and participate more fully in the community.
A large part of the role will include coordinating access to the required services identified in the individually funded package. The Support Coordinator will support consumers with a range of individual needs and assist them to strengthen their abilities to connect with relevant supports, to develop and maintain support relationships and to increase their capacity to independently navigate through the challenges involved in coordinating their support requirements.
What you will need to bring to the role?
As an experienced Support Coordinator, you will be able to hit the ground running, your excellent people skills coupled with your ability to coordinate and manage competing priorities will ensure your success in this role. Your kindness, patience, and persistence along with your calm resilience will help you overcome the obstacles of day to day support coordination and stay cool under pressure. Taking a coaching approach to all your interactions you understand that helping people to help themselves is an important part of empowering customers. You will be the kind of person that can get a little creative and come up with innovative ways to help customers on their path to recovery. In addition to the people side of the role you will also have excellent administration skills, strong computer literacy, report writing and financial management abilities. Ideally you will bring previous NDIS support coordination experience and qualifications in mental health or social welfare.
About Me Well
Me Well is a specialist in supporting better mental health and wellbeing. We believe that everyone can pursue a meaningful life based on their own strengths, values and goals.
Our support services are underpinned by values of authenticity, quality, responsiveness, kindness and hope. We embody these values and are passionate about supporting customers to make positive changes to their health and wellbeing.
Mandatory requirements:
- Current VIC Working with Children Check
- Australian Working Rights
- Drivers license
- Police check (refer to PD) disclosable outcomes considered
- Your own vehicle that is fully registered and insured
- NDIS Workers Clearance Check Essential (employee expense) Register and Apply here
- OHS compliant workstation to work from home (e.g. safe workstation, smoke alarm, proper ventilation)
How to apply:
If you have the skills and experience to succeed in this role, then please APPLY now.
Applications close Sunday 29 August 2021 (advert may close earlier if applicants are shortlisted sooner)
All terms and conditions of the role are listed in the Position Description.
We celebrate multidisciplinary teams and value the rich skills and experiences brought by applicants from a range of sectors and professional backgrounds. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are encouraged to apply.
Please no recruitment agencies.