• Use lived experience of mental ill health and recovery to support clients to achieve wellbeing goals and enjoy an enriched quality of life
• Fixed-term, part-time role (30.4 hours/week) until 30 June 2025 | Monday to Thursday 9 am to 5 pm
• Cairns Location

Mind strongly encourages applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, people with a lived and living experience of mental distress and recovery, and applicants from all cultures, genders, sexualities, bodies, abilities, spiritualities, ages and backgrounds. 

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 45 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.

About the role

The Mind Centres for Mental Health and Wellbeing offer a range of flexible, personalised supports and outreach services to clients that aim to maximise recovery outcomes. Mind Centres provide a person-centred approach tailored to meet individual needs as clients’ transition safely from residential care back to their place of residence. Services include coaching and counselling for individuals and families, one-on-one and group work programs, specialised health assessments, complex case reviews, support coordination, behavioural intervention and management, tenancy advice and linkage with housing services, access to employment and vocational supports, information and support for families and carers, and NDIS advice and planning support. Clients are supported to build daily living skills, enhance social and community connections, maintain their housing, achieve recovery goals and lead an enriched quality of life.

We are seeking a compassionate Peer Practitioner for a fixed-term, part-time (30.4 hours per week) opportunity until June 2025, to work alongside a caring team in the Cairns area. In this role, you will draw upon your lived experience of mental health challenges and recovery to work collaboratively with clients, empowering them to achieve their recovery goals. You will provide one-on-one support, facilitate shared support, workshops and group work that foster personal growth, enhance recovery, and build daily living skills.

Key responsibilities

• Utilise your own lived experience of mental ill health and recovery to inform your work and the work of the team.
• Deliver high-quality services and facilitate positive educational and social experiences.
• Support clients to return to their community, live independently and enjoy a meaningful life through a staged approach to recovery.
• Provide support coordination, information, coaching and group programs to enhance recovery, maintain housing, build relationships with families and carers, create community networks and access to relevant services.
• Collaborate with a range of services and the community to ensure a co-ordinated, integrated response to the client’s recovery goals.

What you’ll bring

• Tertiary qualifications (minimum Certificate IV) in Mental Health, Psychology, Social Work, Occupational Therapy or other health-related field.
• Prior lived experience and willingness to support clients through sharing learnings and recovery-orientated practice is required.
• Expertise in working with people with mental health issues, complex needs and interacting with families and carers.
• Proven capability to implement therapeutic, recovery-oriented frameworks and practices including risk mitigation, trauma informed care and family inclusive practice.
• Able to provide a record of Vaccination Preventable Diseases or able to obtain vaccinations against Measles, Mumps, Rubella, Chicken Pox, Whooping Cough, Hepatitis B or other diseases as required by our Partnership with QLD Health.

Benefits

• Salary packaging up to $15,899 p.a. allows you to allocate a portion of your pre-tax income to cover living expenses (e.g. rent, mortgage, child care, car leasing expenses etc.).
• Fitness Passport - Access to our corporate health and fitness program, providing you and family with access to a wide choice of fitness facilities
• Access to our Employee Assistance Program (EAP), provided by Converge International, for you and your immediate family members.
• Ongoing training and professional development opportunities.

Interested?

To obtain a position description and apply online click Apply Now to visit Mind Careers - reference number 495625. Please contact the person below for more information.

Toni Hines, Service Manager ‑ Mind Centre for Wellbeing / IRSP&GBRSP

[email protected]

The successful applicant is required to complete comprehensive reference and background checking prior to employment, including a Working with Children Check, and NDIS Workers Screening Check.