Vocational Specialist - Headspace

Reference Number: 642
Job Title: Vocational Specialist - Individual Placement and Support Program
Employment Type: Fixed-Term Full Time until June 2025
Hours per Fortnight: 80
Applications close: 11/04/2024
Location: Headspace Shepparton
About GV Health - Mental Health Services:
Our skilled and committed team of Mental Health professionals provide an innovative range of services for individuals suffering from, or at risk of, serious mental health problems requiring short and long-term treatment and support. Our comprehensive service is offered across the municipalities of Mitchell, Murrindindi, Strathbogie, Greater Shepparton and Moira regions.
Our multidisciplinary professionals are from an array of backgrounds and disciplines and work across a range of settings and services including:

• Adult Mental Health
• Community Mental Health
• Acute Adult Inpatient Unit - Wanyarra
• Aged Persons Mental Health
• Child and Youth Mental Health

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About the program
The Individual Placement and Support (IPS) is an initiative of the Department of Social Services and evaluated via IPS works. The program has been expanded from a trial to being embedded in 50 headspace centres throughout Australia and the service offers employment and vocational support to complement existing clinical mental health and non-vocational support.
About the role
The Vocational Specialists are integrated into the headspace team and will provide career development advice and vocational and employment assistance to young people with mental illness up to the age of 25 years. The Vocational Specialists will work with the evaluation consultant and fidelity reviewer to ensure fidelity of the IPS model is met appropriately. All IPS services will subscribe to a set of eight core Practice Principles that underpin delivery of support to participants.
These are: * Focus on Competitive Employment: IPS services are committed to competitive employment as an attainable goal for participants with mental illness seeking employment.

• Eligibility Based on Participants Choice: Participants are not excluded from the IPS service on the basis of readiness, diagnoses, symptoms, substance use history, psychiatric hospitalisations, level of disability, or legal system involvement.
• Integration of Rehabilitation and Mental Health Services: The IPS model is based on a close integration of mental health treatment teams, including clinical care.
• Attention to Participant Preferences: Services are based on participant's preferences and choices, rather than providers' judgments
• Personalised Benefits Counselling: Vocational specialists help participants obtain personalised, understandable, and accurate information about their government entitlements. (Fear of losing benefits is a major barrier to employment)
• Rapid Job Search: The IPS model is based on a rapid job search approach to help participants obtain jobs directly, rather than providing lengthy pre-employment assessment, training, and counselling.
• Systematic Job Development: Vocational specialists build an employer network based on participants' interests, developing relationships and partnerships with local employers.
• Time-Unlimited and Individualised Support: Follow-along supports are individualised and are continued for as long as the participant wants and needs the support

Fidelity reviewers from IPS Works (see https://ipsworks.waamh.org.au for more detailed information) assess the quality of IPS implementation and service delivery whilst undertaking a series of observations, interviews and document reviews. The fidelity model is outlined in the ANZ Supported employment fidelity scape (supported-employment-fidelity-scale.pdf (waamh.org.au)
Position Description:
Why Work at GV Health?

• Generous

, subsidised staff parking and discounted leisure memberships * Flexible work practices and options to purchase additional leave to support work/life balance

• Paid parental leave
• Professional development and study leave to help reach your learning and career goals
• A confidential employee assistance program (EAP) for you and your loved ones
• Social club membership offering a range of events, functions and local community discount
• Our CREATE Outstanding monthly, bi-monthly and annual reward and recognition program

GV Health is an equal opportunity employer and encourages applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, as well as applicants who are LGBTIQ+, who have different abilities, or are from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds are encouraged.
Three (3) COVID-19 vaccination doses are a mandatory requirement for all roles and seasonal Influenza vaccination (where mandated). Further pre-employment screening checks may be required, including but not limited to; Working with Children's Check (WWCC), National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) Worker Screening, International and National Police Checks, Aged Care Statutory Declaration, Visas and valid working rights in Australia, further immunisations. Further details of pre-employment requirements are provided in the Position Description and to successful candidates, or upon request.
GV Health reserves the right to vary pre-employment screening from time to time and as directed by legislation and operational requirements.
Recruitment agencies should note that GV Health does not accept agency resumes. GV Health is not responsible for any fees related to any unsolicited resumes submitted by Recruitment Agencies.