Role details

The Aged Care Assessment Team at the Mackay Base Hospital are seeking applications for a Senior Health Practitioner to join their team on a permanent basis.

How to apply and for mandatory requirements regarding this role, please refer to the attached Role Description.

Your opportunity

As an Assessor in Mackay Aged Care Assessment Team (ACAT), you will undertake comprehensive assessments of aged clients in a variety of settings, both community and hospital. Your primary objective will be to record accurate data collected during the comprehensive needs-based assessments of clients using the National Screening and Assessment Form (NSAF) within the myAssessor application and the MyAgedCare client record. Within a Wellness and Reablement framework, the assessor will develop a client centred Support Plan detailing client recommendations and aged care and community pathways to improve service provision and agreed outcomes. The assessor is responsible for providing up to date information on appropriate aged care pathways that the client may be eligible to access. As an assessor you will liaise with clients, carers, health professionals, service providers and other internal and external stakeholders.

About the Team

The Aged Care Assessment Team is a small, highly skilled multidisciplinary team (MDT) consisting of nursing and allied health clinicians whose primary role is the assessment of frail aged clients 65 years and over and Indigenous clients 50 years and over seeking to access Government subsidised services to assist them to maintain their independence at home, or for entering aged care residential settings.

About our Hospital and Health Service

Mackay Hospital and Health Service ( https://www.mackay.health.qld.gov.au/ )has 6 hospitals, 2 multi-purpose health services and 4 community health centres that employ more than 3,700 staff. The district covers an area of approximately 90,000km2 and provides services to patients and their families in Bowen, Cannonvale, Clermont, Collinsville, Dysart, Glenden, Mackay, Middlemount, Moranbah, Proserpine and Sarina.

Some of our great benefits on offer

• Competitive wages, salary packaging and leave entitlements
• Flexible working arrangements
• A diverse work culture
• Career development
• Professional development opportunities
• Education opportunities, Study and Research
• Paid parental leave
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Discounted Private Health Insurance
• Fitness Passport

 Workforce attraction incentive scheme

You may be eligible to receive the Incentive Scheme 1, the scheme is available to health workers that relocate from interstate or international to come work within our team may receive up to $20,000 in incentive payments under the Queensland Health Workforce Attraction Incentive Scheme (conditions apply). ( https://www.careers.health.qld.gov.au/working-for-us/workforce-attraction-incentive-scheme )