• Mental Health and Wellbeing Local – Frankston
• Be a part of the mental health reform working alongside a multidisciplinary team to provide support and intervention to those with complex mental health and alcohol and other drug challenges
• Generous not for profit organisation salary packaging.
• Frankston location

Support major mental health reform in Victoria to ensure that everyone is supported.

This is an amazing opportunity to assist in shaping the future of peer and community-led mental health services.

This local support is a key recommendation of the recent Royal Commission into Victoria’s mental health system and promises to make our community a better place to live.

Mental Health and Wellbeing Local - Frankston Wellways, Mentis Assist and Peninsula Health are working together to provide mental health and wellbeing supports in Frankston to ensure everyone can access treatment and care closer to home.  

The Frankston Mental Health and Wellbeing Local provides welcoming and inclusive support for people aged 26 years and over who are experiencing mental health challenges, including people with co-occurring alcohol and drug dependence treatment and care needs. 

Our service is led by lived experience and coproduced with the local community to meet its needs.

The service currently operates 6 days per week, and this position is required to work rostered hours. The Frankston Mental Health Local is 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. Even if you only meet some of the criteria, we’d love to hear from you.

About the role

You will provide psychological interventions to people experiencing mental health and wellbeing challenges and those experiencing co-occurring alcohol and other drug challenges. You will practice collaboratively working with other clinicians, consumer peer workers, community practitioners and service consumers. You will provide psychological assessments, and individual and group therapy sessions. You will work collaboratively with clinical and non-clinical staff to complete assessments of participants on their entry into the service.

About you

You are an experienced psychologist, accustomed to working with several treatment modalities. You can demonstrate that your practice is collaborative, and responsive to the needs of consumers. You are ready and willing to implement the changes to mental health services as recommended by the Royal Commission into Mental Health.

Requirements

• Master of Psychology with APRHA registration as a psychologist. (Clinical preferred.)
• Minimum 2 years’ experience in a mental health service setting however, psychologists with less than 2 years of experience in mental health service may also be considered
• 100 points of ID
• National police check and Working with Children Check
• Right to work in Australia
• People with lived experience of mental health challenges are encouraged to apply.
  

Benefits

• Access to generous not for profit salary packaging and leave loading
• Ongoing learning and development opportunities
• Membership in a dynamic team.

The Mental Health Locals teams will have an amazing opportunity to drive much-needed mental health improvements for our communities and our participants.

For a confidential discussion about the role contact Michael Sillekens, Clinical Services Manager or Maya Catic, People and Culture Manager on 5970 5000.

Applicants should view the position description prior to applying via: mentisassist.org.au/work-with-us/current-vacancies.

If this role sounds like a perfect match for your skills and approach to mental health and wellbeing, send your resume and a covering letter telling us a bit more about your interest in this role to [email protected] using the subject line: Psychologist enquiry via EthicalJobs.

Closing date: Please apply ASAP as we will interview suitable applicants upon receipt of application.