Senior Mental Health Worker

• Full time, Ongoing role
• $44.07 per hour + super + salary packaging
• Work for a multi-award-winning iconic community health organisation
• Generous salary packaging options to reduce your cohealth taxable income

So why cohealth?

cohealth leads the way in reducing health and social inequity in partnership with people and the communities in which they live. Named Premier’s Health Service of the Year (Primary) and the Supporting LGBTIQ+ Health Service at the Victorian Public Healthcare Awards, cohealth’s 1000 staff demonstrate courage, leadership, innovation, and agility in their commitment to providing inclusive and culturally safe health services that protect the human rights of all people of all gender identities, sexualities, ages, cultural and linguistic backgrounds, faiths, and abilities.

Our inclusive workplace culture enables staff to bring their whole selves to work, where uniqueness is valued, and people experience a feeling of belonging. Our aim is for everyone to thrive in their role. Please click here to find out more.

About the role

The Forensic Mental Health in Community Health (FMHiCH) program is designed to improve Mental Health outcomes and reduce recidivism for adults who are completing a Mental Health and Treatment Rehabilitation condition through the Department of Justice and Community Safety. The Senior Mental Health Worker is an integral part of the Forensic Mental Health in Community Health team. The Senior Mental Health Worker enhances the quality of ongoing support and care for eligible clients by working collaboratively with partners to provide comprehensive assessment, planning, and the implementation and coordination of client goal directed care plans.

Please refer to the Position Description for more information.

Your duties include:

• Provide recovery-oriented services to clients, utilising the Collaborative Recovery model and coaching principles
• Facilitate access to community resources and services
• Work within an internal and external team-based approach to assessment, ongoing care, and treatment
• Implement individual service plans for clients with appropriate follow-up care including review and referral to other agencies and GPs as required that support person-centered care and recognise people’s strengths within a community-based forensic framework.

What cohealth offers:

• Exciting Parental leave benefits
  • cohealth offers primary carers 14 weeks paid parental leave upon completion of only 6 months of continuous service
  • Eligible co-workers will continue to receive superannuation on unpaid parental leave as well
• Salary packaging to suit you – tax free amount of up to $15,900 p.a (mortgage, rent, or credit cards) and a further $2,650 p.a (meal, entertainment expenses and holiday accommodation) alongside generous reward programs from our salary packaging providers. Find out more on salary packaging here: https://www.ato.gov.au/Individuals/Jobs-and-employment-types/Working-as-an-employee/Salary-sacrificing-for-employees/
• Novated Leasing available
• Counselling services for you and your immediate family through our EAP-Access provider, and mindfulness, resilience, and wellbeing programs
• We offer inclusion, equality, and opportunity in a workplace where making a difference counts (based on our guiding principles and values)

Our ideal candidate:

• A tertiary qualification and/or significant relevant experience in Mental Health, justice, health, community services or equivalent
• Proof of qualification to be sighted
• Extensive understanding of the challenges that people who experience Mental Health, justice interventions and/or alcohol and other drugs face
• Victorian Driver’s License

All appointments are made subject to a satisfactory Police Check, a Working With Children Check (WWCC), complete a Statutory Declaration, evidence of legal rights to work in Australia, and evidence of vaccination against COVID-19 (3 doses). Additionally, some roles will also require current AHPRA registration and/or NDIS Worker Screening Clearance.

Roles that are determined to be Risk Category A or B [staff that have direct and/or indirect contact with body substances and are at higher risk of occupational exposure to infections] will be required to provide evidence of immunisation assessment including Influenza prior to commencement [A] or within 12 weeks of commencement [B]. This is in accordance with the Victorian Minister of Health Mandatory Vaccination Orders for COVID-19 and legislated requirement for influenza vaccination.

How to apply