• Empower clients facing mental health challenges to achieve their recovery goals and independent living
• Fixed term 12-month role | Part time 30.4 hours/week, 24/7 Rotating Roster
• Gimuy Walubara Yidinji, Cairns Location 

Mind strongly encourages applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, people with a lived and living experience of mental ill health and recovery, and applicants from all cultures, genders, sexualities, bodies, abilities, spiritualities, ages and backgrounds. 

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. Mind has been supporting people experiencing mental health and wellbeing challenges to find help, hope and purpose in their lives for more than 45 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 Sub-Acute short stay Adult Step-Up Step-Down (ASUSD) residential service, delivered in partnership with QLD hospital networks and the local health service, supports adults with a psychosocial disability up to 28 days transitioning from a hospital setting back into the community or to prevent admissions whilst residing in the community. Clients are supported 24/7 to achieve their recovery goals, strengthen relationships with families and carers, develop community networks, build confidence and capacity to live safely in the community. ASUSD works within a recovery focused, clinical treatment framework providing personalised one-on-one support, shared supports and group activities based on client’s strengths and goals as identified in their recovery plan. 

We are seeking a resilient, compassionate Community Mental Health Practitioner - Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander for a 12-month fixed term, part time (30.4 hours per week) role on Gimuy Walubara Yidinji Country. Your will deliver person-centred support and recovery-oriented services to support clients facing mental health challenges achieve their recovery goals, develop life skills, and strengthen connections with the local community and elders. 

Key responsibilities

• Deliver high quality services and facilitate positive educational and social experiences.
• Support clients to return to a community of their choosing, live independently and enjoy a meaningful life through a staged approach to recovery.
• Provide information and mentoring to clients, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander clients to reconnect with local communities and support networks, establish relationships with families and carers, and access to relevant services.
• Build trusted relationships through strengths focused engagement with local communities, kinship groups and elders and provide stakeholders with awareness of health outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
• Collaborate with a range of services and the community to ensure a co-ordinated, integrated response to the 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, or the ability to obtain the minimum qualifications.
• Able to provide a record of Vaccination Preventable Diseases or able to obtain vaccinations against Measles, Mumps, Rubella, Chicken Pox, Whooping Cough, Hepatitis B or other diseases as required by our Partnership with QLD Health.
• Expertise in working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples with mental health issues, complex needs and interacting with families and carers.
• Proven capability to implement therapeutic, recovery oriented frameworks and practices including risk mitigation, trauma informed care and family inclusive practice. 

Benefits

• Salary packaging up to $15,899 p.a. allows you to allocate a portion of your pre-tax income to cover living expenses (e.g. rent, mortgage, child care, car leasing expenses etc.)
• Option to access Meal and Entertainment allowance up to $2,650 p.a. via Salary Packaging.
• Access to corporate health and fitness benefits.
• Access to our Employee Assistance Program (EAP), provided by Converge International, for you and your immediate family members. 

Interested?

To obtain a position description and apply online click Apply Now to visit Mind Careers - reference number 495170. Online applications must be submitted by 11pm Tuesday 25 July 2024. Please contact the person below for more information.

Leonie Heness - Service Manager - Cairns CCU and ASUSD

[email protected]

NB: The filling of this position is intended to constitute a special/equal opportunity measure under section 7 of the Anti-Discrimination Act 1991 (Qld) for the purposes contained in Section 25 of that Act. The position is therefore only open to Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander applicants.

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.