Skylight Mental Health is recruiting a Community Mental Health Worker to work within their Carer Services program.

The Community Mental Health Worker will ideally have a lived experience of caring for someone who has/is experiencing mental health challenges. The Community Mental Health Worker will work closely with participants to promote recovery, inspire hope, and facilitate a process wherein participants can work toward goals that will improve their wellbeing.

The program provides short term 1:1 support and facilitates Carer Peer Groups within Metropolitan Adelaide.

The Community Mental Health Worker will:

• Support participants to identify their strengths
• Build resilience and increase capacity
• Assist carers to identify and achieve their personal goals
• Work closely with our partner Carers SA to provide best-practice service delivery
• Provide warm and informed referrals to external service providers such as mental health, housing, legal, and financial, to assist with improving carer wellbeing
• Connect carers with community
• Explore accessing and provide support applying for the NDIS, Carers pensions or DSP
• Support carers to discover an improved quality of life
• Facilitate Peer Groups and organise activities and outings that improve carer mental health and wellbeing
• Support carers to navigate complex service pathways, empowering them to advocate for their needs within the broader social services and health systems, including both non-government and government organisations and programs

Requirements for Success

• Qualifications or experience relevant to mental health
• Lived Experience in a mental health-related caring role will be highly regarded
• Sound knowledge and awareness of mental health challenges
• Capacity to work both autonomously and within teams
• Experience with person centred and recovery oriented frameworks
• Proficient knowledge of Microsoft programs and relevant software
• DHS Working with Children Check and NDIS Worker Check – Apply Here
• Understanding of NDIS application processes highly desirable
• Full Driver’s License and ability to work across sites
• Some out of hours work may be required

This role is classified at SCHADS Level 4, 0.6 fte. The role will be based at Skylight Mile End and Christies Beach, servicing multiple areas of the South Australian metropolitan region.

For queries please contact Nicole Brookes on email at [email protected] using the subject line: Community Mental Health Worker enquiry via EthicalJobs.

If you are interested in applying please attach a current CV, a cover letter and answer the following questions (limit 75 words per question) by 9am Monday 5th May 2025.

• Describe briefly your understanding of what is needed to support carers who may have mental health challenges due to their caring roles.
• Please describe an experience where you have needed to communicate professional boundaries in a respectful and supportive manner.
• The Carer Services program is a short, time-limited program. Please describe your understanding of capacity building, and how would you engage with and support someone to meet their goals within timeframes.

Skylight Mental Health is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive workforce including people from all genders, ages, sexualities, cultures, backgrounds. We strongly encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, culturally and linguistically diverse people and people with mental health lived experience.

We acknowledge people with lived experience of mental health concerns and suicide, and those who love and care for them. We recognise that to truly build and maintain high quality services we must ensure our practice, values, and language draw upon the lived experience, wisdom and expert knowledge of the people we assist and the broader lived experience community.