Job Summary
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- Job posted on: 1st Feb 2023
- Melbourne > Croydon
Mind Australia is one of the country’s leading community-managed specialist mental health service providers with a range of residential, mobile outreach, centre based and online services. We have been supporting people living with the day-to-day impacts of mental illness, as well as their families, friends and carers for over 40 years.
We provide practical and motivational support that helps people to develop the skills they need to move on, thrive and improve the quality of their lives. It’s an approach to mental health and wellbeing that looks at the whole person in the context of their daily life. Mind is committed to diversity and social inclusion.
The Keep Embracing Your Success (KEYS) service, delivered in partnership with MacKillop Family Services and Victorian Aboriginal Child Care Agency (VACCA), is a multidisciplinary program for young people aged 13-16 years experiencing highly complex emotional and behavioural challenges due to adversity who are currently in, or are likely to be placed in, residential care. KEYS is a transitional model and takes a new approach to supporting highly vulnerable young people utilising holistic, trauma informed therapeutic approaches.
We are seeking highly resilient, self-aware Community Mental Health Practitioner for a permanent, part time (26 hours per week) opportunity to work alongside a caring team on a 24/7 rotating roster in the Croydon area. You will support vulnerable young people with empowering, recovery-orientated services to build life skills, grow capacity, develop social connections and linkages with the community to achieve positive recovery outcomes.
To obtain a position description and apply online click Apply Now to visit Mind Careers - reference number 492260.
Mind strongly encourages applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, people with a lived experience of mental ill health and recovery, and applicants from all cultures, genders, sexualities, bodies, abilities, spiritualities, ages and backgrounds. The successful applicant is required to complete comprehensive reference and background checking prior to employment, including a Working with Children Check, NDIS Workers Screening Check and the ability to obtain vaccinations against COVID-19.