• Casual or Part time Position (6 hours per week)

Guthrie House acknowledges the Traditional Owners of country throughout Australia and recognises their continuing connection to land, waters, and community. We pay our respect to them and their cultures and to elders past, present, and emerging.

Are you committed to women’s issues and social justice?

Guthrie House is a community-based drug and alcohol support and transitional service for women involved in the criminal justice system and their accompanying children.

Based on Gadigal land in Sydney’s Inner West, we currently have an opportunity for you to join our team as our Mental Health Worker where you will provide professional mental health support to the clients of Guthrie House to maximise rehabilitative opportunities that facilitate re-integration into suitable community-based accommodation.

The salary is per the SCHADS Award 2010 – Level 3.4 with salary packaging available if part time and 25% casual loading if casual.

Selection Criteria

Essential Criteria

• Tertiary qualifications in Psychology, Social Work, Counselling, or other allied health discipline. Eligibility for membership with an appropriate professional body
• Proven ability to deliver quality, evidence-based recovery focused mental health services including assessments, well-being and safety planning and the delivery of relevant therapeutic interventions
• Experience providing culturally safe services to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander clients
• Ability to work independently, with strong organisational and time management skills

Desirable Criteria

• Demonstrated experience in community mental health nursing
• Experience working with women involved in the criminal justice system
• Current NSW driver’s license

For enquiries in relation to the position, please contact Christine Duggan on 02 9564-5977 or [email protected] using the subject line: Mental Health Worker enquiry via EthicalJobs.

A position information package is attached.

PLEASE NOTE:

The requirement to be a woman is a genuine occupational qualification pursuant to S31(2)(H) of the Anti-Discrimination Act NSW (1997).

Applications that do not address the selection criteria will not be considered. Successful candidates will be required to clear probity checks including National Criminal History Record Check and Working with Children Check.

COVID-19

In the context of COVID-19 we are continuing to deliver residential services face to face. We have infection control policies in place and a Business Continuity Plan and Safety Plan that are regularly reviewed.

Under the current Public Health Orders all workers of Guthrie House are classified as health workers and are required to be fully vaccinated for COVID-19.