Community Mental Health Practitioner - Lead Practitioner - Family Engagement

• Coach and inspire a team to support clients with mental ill health with recovery-orientated services to achieve wellbeing goals
• Permanent role | Part time 24 hours/week
• Gladstone Location

Mind strongly encourages applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, people with a lived experience of mental ill health and recovery, and applicants from all cultures, genders, sexualities, bodies, abilities, spiritualities, ages and backgrounds.

Mind Australia is one of the country’s leading community-managed specialist Mental Health service providers with a range of residential, mobile outreach, centre based and online services. We have been supporting people living with the day-to-day impacts of mental illness, as well as their families, friends and carers for over 45 years.

We provide practical and motivational support that helps people to develop the skills they need to move on, thrive and improve the quality of their lives. It’s an approach to Mental Health and wellbeing that looks at the whole person in the context of their daily life. Mind is committed to diversity and social inclusion.

About the role

The Sub-Acute short stay Adult Step-Up Step-Down (ASUSD) residential service, delivered in partnership with QLD hospital networks and the local health service, supports adults with a psychosocial disability up to 28 days transitioning from a hospital setting back into the community or to prevent admissions whilst residing in the community. Clients are supported 24/7 to achieve their recovery goals, strengthen relationships with families and carers, develop community networks, build confidence and capacity to live safely in the community. ASUSD works within a recovery focused, clinical treatment framework providing personalised one-on-one support, shared supports and group activities based on client’s strengths and goals as identified in their recovery plan.

We are seeking a highly motivated, compassionate Community Mental Health Practitioner - Lead Practitioner - Family Engagement for a permanent, part time (24 hours per week) opportunity to work in the Gladstone area. You will provide practice leadership and coach a team to deliver person-centred recovery-orientated services, support clients to achieve their wellbeing goals, involve families and carers in service delivery, offer meaningful referrals to external providers and work closely with clinical partners.

Key responsibilities

• Coach and mentor the team to deliver high quality services and facilitate positive educational and social experiences.
• Support clients to establish relationships with family and friends, create community connections, develop life skills and enjoy a positive future through a staged approach to recovery.
• Develop trusted relationships and offer information to clients, families and carers.
• Provide practice leadership and work as part of a multidisciplinary team offering specialised psychosocial support.
• Collaborate with a range of services and the community to ensure a co-ordinated, integrated response to client’s recovery goals.

What you’ll bring

• Tertiary qualifications (minimum Certificate IV) in Mental Health, Psychology, Social Work, Occupational Therapy or other health-related field.
• Able to provide a record of Vaccination Preventable Diseases or able to obtain vaccinations against Measles, Mumps, Rubella, Chicken Pox, Whooping Cough, Hepatitis B or other diseases as required by our Partnership with QLD Health.
• Expertise working with clients with Mental Health issues, complex needs and interacting with families and carers.
• Proven capability to implement therapeutic, recovery-oriented frameworks and practices including risk mitigation, trauma informed care and family inclusive practice.
• Ability to develop practice, coach a team to achieve quality service outcomes and provide supervision.

Benefits

• Salary packaging up to $15,899 p.a. allows you to allocate a portion of your pre-tax income to cover living expenses (e.g. rent, mortgage, child care, car leasing expenses etc.).
• Option to access Meal and Entertainment allowance up to $2,650 p.a. via Salary Packaging.
• Access to our Employee Assistance Program (EAP), provided by Converge International, for you and your immediate family members.
• Professional development through regular supervision sessions.

Interested?

To obtain a position description and apply online visit Mind Careers - reference number 494617. Online applications must be submitted by 11pm Tuesday 16 January 2024. Please contact the person below for more information.

Leasa Stelfox, Service Manager - Gladstone Step Up Step Down

*************@mindaustralia.org.au

The successful applicant is required to complete comprehensive reference and background checking prior to employment, including a Working with Children Check, NDIS Workers Screening Check and the ability to obtain vaccinations against COVID-19.

 PD Community Mental Health Practitioner - Lead Practitioner - Family Engagement (ASUSD) 20230130.pdf