• Full-Time, Ongoing
• Flexible working arrangements and great work-life balance
• Work for a multi-award-winning iconic community health organisation
• Generous salary packaging options to reduce your cohealth taxable income

So why cohealth?

cohealth leads the way in reducing health and social inequity in partnership with people and the communities in which they live. Named Premier's Health Service of the Year (Primary) and the Supporting LGBTIQ+ Health Service at the Victorian Public Healthcare Awards, cohealth's 1000 staff demonstrate courage, leadership, innovation, and agility in their commitment to providing inclusive and culturally safe health services that protect the human rights of all people of all gender identities, sexualities, ages, cultural and linguistic backgrounds, faiths, and abilities.

Our inclusive workplace culture enables staff to bring their whole selves to work, where uniqueness is valued, and people experience a feeling of belonging. Our aim is for everyone to thrive in their role. Please click here to find out more.

About the role

The Commonwealth Psychosocial Support (CPS) program provides time limited home and community-based supports to consumers with severe mental illness. This role will be responsible for maintaining an active caseload of up to 15 consumers at any point in time and may be required to support the development and implementation of group activities.

Your duties include:

• Maintain an active case load, providing flexible one on one outreach support to consumers in their homes, community or via a modality that best meets their needs
• Plan and facilitate day-to-day activities of the role and participate in program activities to ensure the provision of a high-quality service
• Contribute to the development and implementation of local work instructions, processes, and procedures
• Undertake discrete initiatives that increases the efficiencies and effectiveness of the program

What cohealth offers:

• Generous salary packaging options to suit you - tax free amount of up to $15,900 p.a (mortgage, rent, or credit cards) and a further $2,650 p.a (meal, entertainment expenses and holiday accommodation). Salary packaging reduces your cohealth taxable income, meaning you pay less tax on your cohealth income
• A generous rewards program from our salary packaging provider
• Exciting Parental leave benefits
  • cohealth offers primary carers 14 weeks paid parental leave upon completion of only 6 months of continuous service
  • Eligible co-workers will continue to receive superannuation on unpaid parental leave as well
• Novated Leasing available
• Counselling services for you and your immediate family through our EAP-Access provider, and mindfulness, resilience, and wellbeing programs
• We offer inclusion, equality, and opportunity in a workplace where making a difference counts (based on our guiding principles and values).

Our ideal candidate:

• Tertiary qualifications with demonstrated skills and minimum of two years' experience working in community mental health or related field
• Excellent verbal and written communication, analytical thinking and inquiry skills
• Proven ability to work in a complex and changing internal and external environments
• Sound understanding of models of care, psychosocial support and best practice evidence-based interventions, including strengths-based and trauma-informed frameworks and the Collaborative Recovery Model.

All appointments are made subject to a satisfactory Police Check, a Working With Children Check (WWCC), complete a Statutory Declaration, evidence of legal rights to work in Australia, and evidence of vaccination against COVID-19 (3 doses). Additionally, some roles will also require current AHPRA registration and/or NDIS Worker Screening Clearance.

Roles that are determined to be Risk Category A or B [staff that have direct and/or indirect contact with body substances and are at higher risk of occupational exposure to infections] will be required to provide evidence of immunisation assessment including Influenza prior to commencement [A] or within 12 weeks of commencement [B]. This is in accordance with the Victorian Minister of Health Mandatory Vaccination Orders for COVID-19 and legislated requirement for influenza vaccination.

Application Process

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You will be asked to upload your CV/ resume and answer the Key Selection Criteria. We will be conducting interviews for this role as applications are received. This campaign will close on the mentioned date at 10.00 PM.

If you have any questions regarding this role, please contact Lee-Anne Boyle at [email protected], using the subject line: Commonwealth Psychosocial Support (CPS) - Mental Health & Wellbeing Coach - Werribee enquiry via EthicalJobs.

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