Job Summary
- $85,126 + Super 11.5% & Benefit
- Applications close:
- Job posted on: 11th Oct 2024
- Adelaide > Adelaide CBD
Mind strongly encourages applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, people with a lived and living experience of mental ill health 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.
We are seeking a compassionate, resilient Peer Practitioner for a fixed-term full-time opportunity to work alongside the National Psycho-Social Program (NPSP) team in Adelaide. You will utilise your lived experience of mental ill health to deliver positive person-centred, recovery-orientated services to clients to enhance life skills, develop connections in the community and live independently.
The National Psycho Social Program (NPSP) is a service delivered in partnership with Neami National, Life Without Barriers, Mind Australia, Mission Australia and Skylight Mental Health supporting individuals with mental health issues within a recovery framework that is focused on strengths and capabilities. NPSP supports clients to develop a lifestyle that has meaning and value, encourages participation in the community, tools to reduce social isolation, enhances independent living skills and establish connections with essential support networks.
To obtain a position description and apply online click Apply Now to visit Mind Careers - reference number 495631. Please contact the person below for more information.
Kathryn Cousins, Senior Service Manager - Community Services SA
[email protected]
We are committed to making reasonable adjustments to provide a positive, barrier-free recruitment process. If you require any support or reasonable adjustments to complete your application, please contact us at [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.