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Senior Project Officer Family Centred Care

The Royal Children's Hospital

The Hospital:

The Royal Children’s Hospital’s (RCH) vision is to be a great children’s hospital – delivering Great Care, Everywhere.

RCH is located within the Melbourne Biomedical Precinct, with more than 45 world-class biomedical organisations and more than 50,000 of the brightest minds working together to make the Precinct number one in the Asia Pacific region for health, education, research, and training. Within this, RCH is also a cornerstone member of the Melbourne Children’s Campus, partnering with Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, The University of Melbourne Department of Paediatrics and The Royal Children’s Hospital Foundation. Each organisation contributes to a paediatric academic health centre which is greater than the sum of its parts.

RCH has cared for the children and young people of Victoria for more than 150 years since it was founded in 1870. A full range of paediatric and adolescent health services are provided plus tertiary and quaternary care for the most critically ill and medically complex patients in Victoria. Tasmania, southern NSW and other states around Australia and overseas. The RCH is the only provider of heart transplant services and CAR T-cell therapy for paediatrics in Australia. RCH is an effective advocate for patients and their families with a particular focus on vulnerable children and increasingly, mental health in young people. The hospital also supports many health promotion and prevention programs. The Hospital has more than 6,000 staff, a budget of $850M, 12 wards and 350 beds. Annually, the RCH has 300,000+ Specialist Clinic appointments, 90,000+ Emergency Department presentations and 20,000 elective surgeries.

We work collaboratively with hospitals to deliver the right care, in the right place, at the right time. The RCH is committed to the Child Safe Standards: http://www.rch.org.au/quality/child-safety/

RCH enjoys high employee engagement and is committed to staff safety and a positive culture through enactment of our Compact.

Further information about RCH is available at www.rch.org.au

The Role:

We are seeking a Senior Project Officer Family Centred Care to join The Royal Children's Hospital with the Melbourne Children's Campus Mental Health Strategy. This is a full time (part time hours, job share will be considered) parental leave replacement for 12 months.

Detection and support of carer and sibling mental health and wellbeing

  • Work with lived experience roles; consumer, sibling and carer groups and individuals; and staff to co-design best practice models for the detection and support of carer and sibling mental health and wellbeing including developing care pathways, education resources for carers and siblings, and training for staff in detecting and supporting the mental health needs of carers and siblings.
  • Embed best practice model of care within RCH usual care to better identify and support carer and sibling mental health needs.

Carer mental health literacy education

  • Work with lived experience roles; consumer and carer groups and individuals; and staff to co-design education programs and develop resources to develop the mental health literacy of carers to identify if their infant, child or adolescent is experiencing mental health or behavioural concerns and to know how and where to access care and support to prevent and/or intervene early in child mental health problems.

To be successful in this role you will have:

  • Commitment to The Royal Children’s Hospital Vision and Values
  • Ability to engage, work with and integrate lived experience and peer support roles and consumers (children, young people) and their carers and families in co-design, consultation, and implementation.
  • Strong knowledge of and commitment to equity, diversity, inclusion and human rights
  • Knowledge of implementation science methodology, change management, knowledge translation and quality improvement in clinical services in ‘real world’ settings.
  • Project management skills/leadership in program/project planning implementation
  • Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
  • Ability to conduct training to a diverse audience
  • Experience in management of budgeted financial processes relevant to role within the Strategy, including recording and reporting.

To view the Position Description, please click here.

For further information about this position please contact Belinda Horton, Program Director at [email protected], using the subject line: Senior Project Officer Family Centred Care enquiry via EthicalJobs.

Why work at the RCH?

RCH is committed to a positive culture through enactment of our Compact. We offer the opportunity to work in world-class facilities, surrounded by Royal Park and only a short tram trip from the heart of Melbourne city.

We also offer discounted staff parking, salary packaging, and an award-winning health and wellbeing program.

The RCH is committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce. We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people from culturally and/or linguistically diverse background, all members of the LGBTQI community and people with disability.

All applicants please be aware that it is a requirement of your employment that you be fully vaccinated against Covid-19, in compliance with any public health orders in place at the time of, and during, employment. Further, some RCH positions require the Annual Influenza Vaccination under Direction from the Secretary, Department of Health (Directions). If your position is identified as Risk Category A or B you are required to have the annual Influenza Vaccination unless you have a medical exception in line with the Directions. Applicants will be required to provide their Australian Government Immunisation History Statement, it is a requirement of the RCH to collect, record and hold vaccination information.

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