Job description
- Permanent Full-Time
- Generous not-for-profit salary packaging to increase your take-home pay!
- Flexible working arrangements
You could be the newest member of our NDIS Support Coordination team!
Do you want to support people with disabilities to build a fulfilling life that is meaningful to them? Then keep reading!
Jewish Care Support Coordination focuses on assisting participants to make choices in their life and build their capacity to take control of their future, whether that be working, participating in a program of their choice, or exploring and developing their interests. We work with NDIS participants to find the right supports for them and ensure their providers are working in a way that suits their needs.
About the Company
Jewish Care Victoria is a not-for-profit organisation and one of the largest providers of aged and community services for the Jewish community in Victoria. We have been servicing the community for 175 years. Our staff come from diverse cultural and religious backgrounds.
About the Role
Jewish Care is a provider of NDIS services to people living with disability. Our services are provided within a framework that prioritises individualised active-support, assisting people with multi system need, and advocating for the rights of full inclusion, choice and control.
We are looking for a passionate, motivated, and well-organised individual to provide pre-planning, advice, and Support Coordination for people entering and sustaining services under the National Disability Insurance Scheme. You will use your exceptional interpersonal and coordination skills to support our clients to choose and control the supports they require. You will have a passion for empowering our clients in all areas of their lives, including personal decision-making, dignity and respect, relationship building, and skill development to promote full community inclusion.
Responsibilities will include:
- Manage a caseload of clients who have contracted with Jewish Care to provide Support Coordination or Specialist Support Coordination under their NDIS plans. This includes meeting billing requirements for the service.
- Identify and facilitate the provision of specialised and mainstream supports under the client’s government funding, including undertaking any relevant risk assessments and identifying preventative measures required to avoid crises. This includes coordinating client referrals for internal and external service provision.
- Promote and implement all individual goal plans in accordance with the principles of inclusion and Person-Centred Active Support, including maximum physical and social integration, community inclusion, and self-direction. This includes completing relevant documentation to demonstrate outcomes.
- Assist clients in accessing and utilising any other government and community services they may require, including providing advice, referrals, and advocacy.
- Support and empower vulnerable people to report and speak out against instances of abuse or potential abuse.
- Undertake regular monitoring and maintenance of service provision data, and NDIS plan utilisation data, including maintaining and updating client records as required within Jewish Care policies, funding agreements, legal, and statutory requirements.
Skills and Experience
- Relevant qualification or equivalent experience in the disability field or a related area of expertise for example- Community Services, Psychosocial Disability.
- Demonstrated commitment to disability and human rights.
- The ability to deliver outstanding customer experiences, creating value through service that is customer-focused.
- Strong planning and organisational skills, including the ability to effectively manage your own work schedule and to work both independently and as part of a team.
- Significant exposure to the NDIS Act and the NDIA service types.
- Demonstrated knowledge of best practices and quality standards within the wider community services sector.
- Strong working knowledge of the Victorian Disability Act.
- Commitment to collaborative practice, and responding to multi system need.
The benefits of working at Jewish Care Victoria
- Salary Packaging – as a not-for-profit organisation, our staff benefit from some Fringe Benefit Tax exemptions through salary packaging up to $15,900 p.a + up to $2,650 p.a on meal & entertainment.
- Employee Assistance Program for you and your family.
- Career development and advancement encouraged.
- We value your opinion and experience. Be heard in your workplace.
If this sounds like the next step in your career, and you want to work for an organisation that supports you to succeed both personally and professionally, click ‘Apply Now’ and commence your journey with Jewish Care Victoria.
Jewish Care proudly celebrates and warmly welcomes the rich diversity of our community and strives to be inclusive for all, including the LGBTI+ community.
Jewish Care acknowledges Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders as the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we live and work. Our services and supports are provided on the lands of the Wurundjeri and Boonwurrung people, and we deeply respect and honour their ongoing cultural and spiritual connection to land, waters and community.
Jewish Care is committed to protecting clients and staff members from all forms of harm and abuse. We are a child safe organisation. We require all applicants to undergo an extensive screening process during their recruitment process.