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Community Mental Health Practitioner - Eastern Suburbs

Mind Australia
  • Provide support to clients with mental health challenges to address and overcome barriers that contribute to homelessness
  • Permanent role | Full time with Company Car
  • Work from Home & Box Hill/ Eastern Suburbs Location

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. We have been supporting people living with the day-to-day impacts of mental illness, as well as their families, friends and carers for over 40 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 Yandina Transitional Housing and Mental Health Accommodation Pathways at Discharge (MHAPD) outreach program operates as a client centered framework providing services to clients with severe mental illness. These services provide recovery based interventions aimed at successfully supporting clients to address and overcome barriers that contribute to homelessness or increased risk of homelessness.

We are seeking a compassionate, self-motivated Community Mental Health Practitioner for a permanent, full time opportunity to work alongside a dynamic team in the Box Hill area. Working from home, you will be integral in providing mobile outreach services to clients in the community to access accommodation services and support their mental health recovery. As this position requires travel within the Eastern suburbs a fully maintained company car is provided.

Key responsibilities

  • Provide direct outreach support to individual clients through recovery based interventions.
  • Deliver high quality outreach services and facilitate positive educational and social experiences.
  • Conduct initial needs based and risk assessments and work towards identifying client’s longer term recovery, housing and support needs.
  • Work as part of a multidisciplinary team offering specialised psychosocial support.
  • Collaborate with a range of local services and the community to ensure a co-ordinated and 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.
  • Expertise in working with people with severe mental health issues, issues relating to homelessness, complex needs and interacting with families and carers.
  • Proven ability to plan and prioritise to meet customer service delivery requirements.
  • Demonstrated understanding of the Community Services sector and ability to build strong relationships with agencies, clinical providers and key stakeholders.

Benefits

  • Attractive Not For Profit Salary Packaging benefits.
  • Flexible work arrangements - opportunity to work from home.
  • Monthly Rostered Day Off.
  • Fully maintained company car for private use.

Interested?

To obtain a position description and apply online visit Jobs@Mind - reference number 14812. 

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

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