Support Coordinator - South Melbourne, Australia - Care Fast Group

Care Fast Group

Verified Company

South Melbourne, Australia

1 week ago

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Olivia Brown

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Description

About Us
Care Fast strives to support people to live the life they want to live. Our purpose is to support people with a disability to do the things they love.

We work with our participants to understand what is important to them and help them to achieve their goals.

Just as no two people are the same, we believe in making our services the best fit for our participants rather than making them fit into pre-existing 'boxes'.

Being the owner of all our properties, we can tailor our services to meet participants' individual needs and provide excellent working environment for our in-house carers.

All of our SIL, STA and MTA facilities are located in one of the best real-estate pockets of South East Melbourne.

Care Fast is looking for a part-time or full-time Support Coordinator to commence in January 2023.

The position is primarily focused in South East Melbourne but will require the person to travel to other locations within the region.

We are looking for someone with a passion for relationship building and supporting participants.

In this role you will, and not limited to:

Research, coordinate and manage a range of supports to suit individual needs
Supports participants to understand their NDIS plan and plan funding
Assisting people in managing their supports and services to enable great outcomes and achievement of NDIS Plan goals
Supporting people with the NDIS planning process and reviews
Undertaking risk assessment and support planning processes with people Engages with participants and their informal support networks and builds connections with providers, local community services and NDIS contacts
Support participants to strengthen their ability to connect with informal, mainstream and funded supports, and to increase capacity to maintain support relationships, and resolve service delivery issues within their local communities
Gathers and prepares evidence for the participant for plan reviews
Develops/has a researchbased approach for understanding the NDIS and sourcing available supports
Perform all underlying administrative tasks related to support coordination service provision including budgets

Skills and experience:

Minimum 1 year Support Coordination or Local Area Coordination experience
Outstanding knowledge and experience of NDIS and their processes
Strong interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills including listening
Ability to develop good working relationships with internal and external stakeholders, including participants, families, and health providers
Effective time management, caseload management, problemsolving skills, and ability to plan and manage resources/budgets
Able to coordinate service expectations and professional boundaries
You can coordinate, organise and track activities/bookings/tasks
Able to selfmanage to achieve multiple and often competing deadlines
Strong administration skills including basic budgeting
Experience in using Microsoft Office suite of products
Experience in mental health would be well regarded

An applicant MUST have:

Minimum Certificate IV in Disability or related field
NDIS Worker Screening Check
Working with Children Check
Proof of Vaccination Status
Current First Aid and CPR Certificate
Australian Driver's license and vehicle

Why Join Us?

Be a part of one of the first 10 employees of a thriving passionate business. We believe in looking after our people as a first step and they can give their best to our participants.
Join an organisation which offers best culture, development and recognition for the frontline heroes.

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