• Permanent full time role | Be part of the reformed mental health and wellbeing system in Victoria
• Rewarding opportunity to ensure that everyone in our community is supported and included
• $88,287 p.a. + superannuation + 17% annual leave loading + generous salary packaging benefits

We are committed to reconciliation, lived experience and inclusivity. We strongly encourage and warmly welcome people from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, people with a lived experience of mental health and disability and people who identify as LGBTIQA+ to apply.

About the Opportunity

The Mental Health and Wellbeing Local is community-led and integrated through partnership that shares power, creating a responsive, flexible, and helpful service.

Working together, Wellways, Eastern Health, Inspiro Health and Oonah will provide a range of support and therapies specific to what the community needs, whenever and wherever they are needed. Lived experience, inclusivity and partnership will underpin all our work. This is a new way of doing things and creates an amazing opportunity to drive much-needed mental health improvements for our communities.

As our new Community Inclusion Coordinator, your role will have a unique focus of supporting participants within the Mental Health and Wellbeing Local to connect and engage with a range of social and occupational activities in their own community to enhance their mental health and wellbeing. In line with this, this role will see you undertake a variety to tasks including, but not limited to, activities such as social prescription or volunteer engagement, facilitating participant access to volunteer opportunities in the community.

About you

You will share our passion for making a difference in our community, have a deep understanding of mental health, addiction, and other co-occurring presentations, and will be able to engage with diverse services and participants.

You will have strong stakeholder engagement skills and the ability to advocate for service participants by fostering an environment where diversity is celebrated, and participants can engage in activities which support their personal goals.

In addition, you will have:

• Diploma in Mental Health or Community Development
• Minimum of 3 years of experience in a community development or similar role
• Evidence of Right to Work in Australia
• Australian Driver Licence
• National Police Check, Working with Children Check or NDIS Worker Screening Check or are willing to obtain
• NDIS Worker Orientation Module completion certificate - free online course
• Tertiary qualifications in Community Services or Community Development (desirable)

This Community Inclusion Coordinator role will see you playing an integral part in changing and shaping how mental health and wellbeing services and supports are delivered to the Yarra Ranges community. Now is your chance to shape the future of mental health and wellbeing in Victoria to ensure that everyone is supported and included.

What we will offer you…

• A purpose driven culture where people can thrive, everyone is respected, and differences are valued
• An equitable, diverse, and socially inclusive work environment
• Salary packaging up to $15,899 enables you to spend a portion of your salary before it is taxed to pay for things like rent, mortgage repayments, car leasing
• Meal and Entertainment allowance via salary packaging up to $2,650 per annum
• Receive 17.5% leave loading every time you take annual leave
• Paid parental leave after 12 months of ongoing employment
• Access for you and your family to our Employee Assistance Program

For a confidential discussion about the role, please contact Matt Riley, Team Leader - Building Community Capacity on 0400 901 855.

For more information about this role, please view the attached position description.

Wellways is committed to the safeguarding of children and vulnerable people. Successful applicants must undergo a comprehensive screening process prior to their commencement.