• Maternity leave cover
• Be valued for your skills and experience in the mental health sector
• Salary packaging, individual professional development
• Package of benefits (e.g. free parking, wellbeing investment and flexibility)

About the Role

Brisbane North PHN delivers the national Head to Health Phone Service in the Brisbane North region. The service delivers a range of activities to support people to access the most appropriate mental health services to meet their needs, within a stepped care approach.

Duties and responsibilities (for full details see Position Description)

• develop and lead the Service Navigation team
• lead, develop and deliver projects and activities that support mental health service navigation functions across the PHN including the Head to Health Phone Service.
• develop and implement training and development and quality assurance frameworks that support the service navigation team to perform their role within scope of practice
• build partnerships and maintain collaborative working relationships with relevant stakeholders to support the integration and enhancement of service navigation functions across the PHN region
• with support from the Communications team, lead the development and ongoing maintenance of the digital resource (www.mymentalhealth.org.au) to promote service navigation to consumers, carers and service providers

About you (for full details see Position Description)

• AHPRA-registered or AASW-registered/eligible health professional, and valid Queensland’s Working with Children Check (Blue Card) or ability to obtain one upon commencement of employment
• relevant clinical experience in primary care or the community sector, ideally working with people with mental illness
• lived experience of mental illness and recovery, or of caring for someone with mental illness is highly desirable
• working knowledge of referral pathways and eligibility criteria for mental health psychosocial service providers
• working knowledge of social media and digital technology

Desirable (non-essential)

• a lived experience of mental illness and/or suicide and/or caring for a person with a mental illness.

About us

Our vision is for a community where good health is available for everyone. We work with others to create and deliver the best possible health and community care system for the people of our region. We strive towards this by listening to the community, reorienting the health system toward care being closer to home and building capacity of providers and partners to meet health needs. We are passionate about living our values each day: collaboration, integrity, diversity, courage, and impact.

Joining us means a…

• Great workplace culture with exposure to a wide range of programs
• Flexible work options (including work from home up to 3 days per week, flexible hours, accrued days off, and flexible start/finish times)
• Generous salary packaging arrangements, including NFP tax-free benefits
• Annual professional development funding
• Modern Lutwyche office base with free undercover parking
• Five weeks' annual leave per annum
• Early access to long service leave
• Social and friendly work environment, great kitchen breakout facilities and close to shops, cafes and transport
• 17.5% leave loading
• Access to Employee Assistance Program for you and your family

Apply to join our team

To apply please -

• Review the full attached position description
• Direct any queries about this role to [email protected] using the subject line: Service Navigation Team Leader - Mental Health Reform enquiry via EthicalJobs
• Upload your current resume and a covering letter (letter maximum 2 pages) that directly addresses how you meet the selection criteria, via the 'Apply' button below by the closing date

We are committed to achieving a diverse workforce and strongly encourage applications from people of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander heritage, people from culturally diverse backgrounds, people with lived experience of mental illness and people with disabilities.