• Opportunity to work for one of Australia's largest Social Purpose organisations
• Great pay rates and salary packaging benefits
• Ongoing training, support and career advancement opportunities
• Full-time Nights

About the Organisation

Life Without Barriers is a leading social purpose, not for profit organisation of 5,600 employees working in more than 440 communities across Australia. We support children, young people and families, people with disability, older people and people with mental illness. We work with people who are homeless and refugees and asylum seekers.   

We want to employ people who reflect the diversity of our clients to ensure we can support each client's individual needs and wants. We encourage people of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander background and people with disability to apply.

About the role

Ngatti House is a service which provides medium-term accommodation and clinical support to young people between 17 and 22 years of age, who show signs and symptoms of mental illness while homeless or at risk of homelessness.

As a Support Worker you will provide one to one psycho-social support services which focus on client - determination, empowerment, hope and belief that recovery from a mental illness is possible.

This is a full-time role working night shifts (22:00-08:00) across 7 days. This is a max term contract for 12 months.

Key Responsibilities

• Support consumers to develop their own support plans in partnership with Life Without Barriers, Community Mental Health services and carers
• Liaise and collaborate with consumers, their community and community support agencies such as mental health, housing and other services to ensure an integrated and timely service
• Monitor and review consumers' progress through the service and against the case plan and provide up to date progress reports to the partner organisations
• Seek to understand consumer's expectations.
• Sensitively ascertain information about the consumer's health, family and cultural background
• Coordinate the delivery of services to consumers and work with the client to utilise other referral agencies and services
• Observe and accurately record the client's behaviour, needs and interactions with others
• Maintain accurate case notes, up to date case plans and files
• Effectively plan and organise own work effort and regularly provide feedback to the manager on their work progress

Skills & Experience

• Certificate IV in Mental Health or working towards
• Previous experience in working with people who have a mental health issue and who are homeless or at risk of homelessness
• Demonstrated ability to work with people from Diverse Cultural Backgrounds with specific reference to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
• Demonstrated ability to positively engage, interact and work with people who have complex needs including a psychiatric disability
• Current Senior First Aid Certificate
• Current Driver Licence

Successful candidates will be required to clear probity checks including National Criminal History Record Check and Working with Children Check (where relevant to the role).