• Promote and coordinate aged care services to support clients with severe mental ill health
• Fixed term 12 month role | Part time 23 hours/week
• WFH & Adelaide 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

Mind offers a targeted range of supports and services that aim to maximise recovery outcomes for customers and operate in the context of local community, the focus of the services is to support people to achieve their better life goals which reflects Mind’s Model of Recovery. The Allied Health team provides specialist care to customers in Mind Centres for Mental Health & Wellbeing across Australia.

We have a 12 month fixed term, part time (23 hours per week) opportunity for a motivated Stakeholder Engagement Officer to focus on coordinating registration and setting up systems to enable service delivery of Residential Aged Care Facilities (RACF) across metropolitan Adelaide. You will utilise stakeholder engagement strategies to create and support partnership opportunities with RACF’s and work collaboratively with stakeholders to manage the provision of severe and episodic mental health services to aged care residents.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage stakeholders and build relationships with RACF’s to promote services available to aged care residents.
• Coordinate, facilitate and implement an effective plan to register RACF’s and enable service provision.
• Facilitate registration of RACF’s by working with the individual facilities to identify and implement credentialing requirements and connect facilities to clinicians.
• Develop effective networks, cross-sector referral pathways and collaborative partnerships with a range of relevant external services.

What you’ll bring

• Tertiary degree qualifications in Human Services or related field as designated by Mind.
• Proven experience in Community Development and/or strategic engagement with external organisations and stakeholders.
• Understanding of the Community Services, aged care and/or mental health.
• Previous project management, B2B, and communications experience.

Benefits

• Attractive Not For Profit Salary Packaging benefits.
• Flexible work arrangements - opportunity to work from home
• Learning, development and career opportunities.

Interested?

To obtain a position description and apply online click on Apply Now - reference number 14389.

We welcome applications from Indigenous Australians, people with a lived experience of mental ill health and recovery, people with disability, those who identify as LGBTIQ and applicants from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds. The successful applicant is required to complete comprehensive reference and background checking prior to employment, including a Working with Children Check and NDIS Worker Screening Check.