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addressAddressMelbourne
type Form of workRemote / Work from Home
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Job description

  • Provide support coordination and respite accommodation services to empower clients with mental ill health to live their best lives
  • Casual roles with Hourly Rate + 25% Loading | Flexible hours to suit your lifestyle
  • Work from Home & Melbourne Metro Location

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 40 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 Fee For Service program offers a range of specialist interventions and approaches to people with psychosocial disability and complex needs who have NDIS plans and/or TAC and WorkCover support packages with the aim of maximising recovery outcomes in a Fee For Service (FFS) model. The program provides centre-based, tele-health, support coordination, education and vocational support, and outreach services reflecting Mind’s Model of Recovery Oriented Practice, My Better Life model and organisational values. The service supports clients with choice and control to identify recovery goals, build skills and capacity, connect with families and carers, and create community linkages.

We are seeking compassionate, self-motivated Mental Health Practitioner - Recovery Retreats for casual opportunities to work alongside a caring team in the Melbourne metropolitan area. Working from home, you will empower clients with choice and control through high quality, recover-orientated phone-based supports, support coordination, outreach services and short-term accommodation to achieve recovery goals, maximise care packages, connect with families and carers, and build capacity to live well in the community.

Key responsibilities

  • Deliver high quality outreach services, case managed responses and facilitate positive educational and social experiences.
  • Complete assessments, provide support coordination services and mentoring consistent with defined goals and aspirations identified in NDIS plans.
  • Support clients with strengths based, recovery-orientated approaches to develop daily living skills, capacity and resilience.
  • Provide information and mentoring to clients to establish connections with community, families and carers, create networks and access to relevant services.
  • Collaborate with a range of services, families 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.
  • Expertise in working outreach and/or support coordination with people with mental health issues, complex needs and interacting with families and carers.
  • Proven capability to plan goal focused care and implement therapeutic, recovery-oriented frameworks and practices.
  • Able to deliver person-centred support coordination services in line with client’s recovery aspirations and needs, and experience working with NDIS and FFS models.
  • Demonstrated understanding of the Community Services sector, NDIS and ability to build strong relationships with service providers, clinical teams and key stakeholders.

Benefits

  • Attractive Not For Profit Salary Packaging benefits up to $15,900pa.
  • Flexible work arrangements to suit your lifestyle!
  • Learning, development and career opportunities.

Interested?

To obtain a position description and apply online click Apply Now to visit Jobs@Mind - reference number 15366.

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. 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.

Refer code: 264350. Mind Australia - The previous day - 2022-09-06 00:38

Mind Australia

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