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• Women's and Children's Health Network, Allied Health, Complex & Sub-Acute Care 3D Health - Various Locations (Aldgate 5154)
• Salary - 
  • ASO3 - Administrative Services Officer L3 - Employment Casual - $34.55 - $36.82 p/hr + 25% casual loading
• (32 casual hrs spread across each quarter - school term time only - i.e. 6 sessions per term x 4 hrs plus Admin)

The Opportunity

Join our team as a vibrant and engaging facilitator. With your passion for supporting families you will: 

• Plan & deliver peer support group(s) tailored for eligible parents of children with a disability or chronic medical condition.
• Create a comfortable environment that encourages participation and conversation from all participants. Facilitate discussion, develop relationships, support parents to identify needs and tailor group sessions to meet needs of parents. 
• Collaboratively plan & deliver 6 sessions each school term.
• Have casual & flexible working arrangements within school hours and school terms. 

You will be responsible for organising guest speakers and guest services from the local community who can also support the parents’ needs, and assist with promoting and advertising the group sessions amongst local agencies and primary stakeholders. You will provide support to an assisting play helper and ensure children are supervised and appropriate activities are provided. You will manage a set group budget and report expenses accordingly, along with monitoring and reporting attendance data.

About You

You are an engaging and supportive facilitator with experience working with families and may include parents of children with complex needs. With excellent interpersonal and communication skills, you create positive group experiences for participants and can deal effectively with issues as they arise. You demonstrate an understanding of community development approaches and applying these skills within the group sessions and plans. Your excellent organisational skills will ensure group session plans run efficiently and effectively, and sound administration skills will allow you to prepare budget reports, attendance reports, and quarterly reports in a timely manner.

About Us

The Women’s & Children’s Health Network is the state’s leading provider of best practice health care for women, babies, children and young people across South Australia.  We offer:

• specialist care for children with acute and chronic conditions
• state of the art maternity and obstetric care services
• community based services reaching hundreds of thousands of babies, children and young people, their families and communities across SA
• specialist programs including Mental Health, Child & Family Health services, Youth and Aboriginal Health services.

Join our patient centred team and contribute to providing South Australia’s women, babies, children and young people with the best health care through both within our hospital or via our many and varied community services and programs.

Our values of Compassion, Respect, Equity, Accountability and working Together for Excellence or CREATE Together represent who we are as a Network.

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Special Conditions

To find out more about this role, including key selection criteria, all special conditions and minimum requirements, please click on the attached role description and also review our document checklists below.

Immunisation Requirements Checklist

Applicant Documents Checklist

Application Instructions

You will be required to attach a 1-2 page cover letter addressing the key selection criteria of the role and a current résumé/curriculum vitae prior to clicking 'Submit Application'. It is recommended to allow enough time to complete the whole application as the system times out after one hour of inactivity.

Other Important Information

The South Australian public sector promotes diversity and flexible ways of working part-time.  Applicants are encouraged to discuss the flexible working arrangements for this role.

Want further information on applying and winning this role, go to our SA Health Careers Site for the Australian Applicant Guide or if you are an international applicant, check out the International Application Guide.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants are encouraged to apply.

Need to speak to someone about this role, please contact: Renae Kennewell, MyTime Manager, Phone: 0458 505 845, E-mail: renae.kennewell@sa.gov.au

Application Closing Date: 29/01/2025 – 11:55pm

Attachments

ASO3 - MyTime Facilitator - Disability Services - Role Description - 844040.pdf