Job Summary
- Applications close:
- Job posted on: 11th Jun 2024
- Adelaide > Mile End
Mind strongly encourages applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, people with a lived and living experience of mental distress and recovery, and applicants from all cultures, genders, sexualities, bodies, abilities, spiritualties, 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.
We are seeking a compassionate, resilient LGBTIQA+ Peer Practitioner for a Permanent, Full Time opportunity to work alongside the Wellness Connect team in the Central Adelaide area. You will utilise your lived experience of mental ill health and recovery, to provide services to consumers, families and carers in line with Mind’s Model of Recovery Oriented Practice, My Better Life model and organisational values for people experiencing a severe mental health condition resulting in reduced psychosocial functional capacity.
Peer support is an important part of Mind’s approach to recovery. The Peer Practitioner works as part of a multidisciplinary team with lived experience of mental ill health and recovery being the unique specialist lens that they bring.
To obtain a position description and apply online click Apply Now to visit Mind Careers - reference number 495157. Online applications must be submitted by 11pm Tues 25 June 2024. Please contact the person below for more information.
Kathryn Cousins, Senior Service Manager
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.