• Use your lived experience to provide meaningful recovery-orientated supports to clients with mental health challenges
• Fixed-term, full-time opportunity until January 2025 (with possible extension)
• Monday to Friday | 5-day roster
• Base salary $85,126 + Super 11.5% & Benefit
• Adelaide CBD 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. 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 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

We are seeking a compassionate, resilient Peer Practitioner for a fixed-term full-time opportunity to work alongside the National Psycho-Social Program (NPSP) team in Adelaide. You will utilise your lived experience of mental ill health to deliver positive person-centred, recovery-orientated services to clients to enhance life skills, develop connections in the community and live independently.

 The National Psycho Social Program (NPSP) is a service delivered in partnership with Neami National, Life Without Barriers, Mind Australia, Mission Australia and Skylight Mental Health supporting individuals with mental health issues within a recovery framework that is focused on strengths and capabilities. NPSP supports clients to develop a lifestyle that has meaning and value, encourages participation in the community, tools to reduce social isolation, enhances independent living skills and establish connections with essential support networks.

Key responsibilities

• Utilise your own lived experience of mental ill health and recovery to inform your work and the work of the team.
• Deliver high quality services and facilitate positive educational and social experiences.
• Support clients to return to their community, live independently and enjoy a meaningful life through a staged approach to recovery.
• Plan and deliver group programs that aid clients to build their skills and focus on recovery.
• 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.
• Prior lived experience and willingness to support clients through sharing learnings and recovery-orientated practice is required.
• Expertise in working with people 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.
• Demonstrated understanding of the Community Services sector and ability to build strong relationships with service providers, clinical teams and key stakeholders.

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.)
• Fitness Passport - Access to our corporate health and fitness program, providing you and family with access to a wide choice of fitness facilities.
• Access to our Employee Assistance Program (EAP), provided by Converge International, for you and your immediate family members.
• Professional development through regular supervision sessions.

Interested?

To obtain a position description and apply online click Apply Now to visit Mind Careers - reference number 495631.  Please contact the person below for more information.

Kathryn Cousins, Senior Service Manager - Community Services SA
[email protected]

We are committed to making reasonable adjustments to provide a positive, barrier-free recruitment process. If you require any support or reasonable adjustments to complete your application, please contact us at [email protected].

The successful applicant is required to complete comprehensive reference and background checking prior to employment, including a Working with Children Check, and NDIS Workers Screening Check.