The Community Centres Division (CCD) provides innovative, unique, place-based programs support Aboriginal children (0-5 years), school age children (6-12 years), youth (12-18 years), families and kin to achieve positive outcomes in community safety, education, and wellbeing.
Town Camp Community Centres function as a multi-purpose family resource. Operating from a strengths-based approach, each Centre aims to improve the health, social, environmental, and economic wellbeing of the community in a way that strengthens and respects culture.
Each Centre provides services and programs for residents and visitors of nearby Town Camps, with particular focus on community safety, school engagement, training and employment opportunities, alcohol and other drug prevention and family and domestic violence.
The Community Centre Coordinators primary responsibility is to work closely with the Community Support Workers, Child and Family Centre Program Service Connector and community members in developing, implementing a wide range of community led programs and services that are tailored to the needs and wishes of the community.
As part of your role, you will be working with children, people with a disability and people who are vulnerable. It is your obligation to always ensure their safety and report any concerns in line with our duty of care obligations. We have zero tolerance when it comes to abuse of any kind and will take disciplinary action, including and up to termination of employment, should we determine that abuse has taken place or there has been a failure to report any suspected or alleged abuse.
Responsibilities
• Coordination and day-to-day management of the Community Centres, including referrals.
• Development, delivery, and evaluation of relevant programs, with focus on school attendance, AOD/VSM and community safety.
• Establish and maintain key strategic relationships and alliances with key stakeholders and service providers both internally and externally.
• Ensure compliance, monitoring and review of statutory requirements and responsibilities.
• Provide high level leadership and support to Community Centre Division staff and resources, to achieve organisational, strategic, and operational objectives.
• Assist with achieving quality management objectives across the organisation.
• Assist with achieving safeguarding objectives across the organisation.
• Assist with achieving compliance objectives across the organisation.
• Other reasonable duties as required.
The Royal Children's Hospital (RCH) has been providing outstanding care for Victoria's children and their families for over 147 years.
We are the major specialist paediatric hospital in Victoria and our care extends to children from Tasmania, southern New South Wales and other states around Australia and overseas.
With a passionate, highly skilled and committed staff campus wide of over 5,000, we provide a full range of clinical services, tertiary care and health promotion and prevention programs for children and young people.
We are the designated state-wide major trauma centre for paediatrics in Victoria and a Nationally Funded Centre for cardiac and liver transplantation.
When it comes to training and research we partner with the very best. Our campus partners, the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute (MCRI) and The University of Melbourne Department of Paediatrics, along with the RCH Foundation, are on site with the hospital in Parkville. Together, we are committed to improving the health outcomes for children today and in the future.
In 2016–17, more than 85,654 children attended our Emergency Department, 322,291 specialist clinic appointments were held which was almost 70,000 more than the previous year, more than 17,000 surgeries were performed and more than 48,552 children were admitted to our wards.
