• Use lived experience of mental ill health to empower clients to achieve their wellbeing goals in a supportive café-like space
• Casual roles $36.00 - $38.60 per hour + 25% Loading
• Flexible hours to suit your lifestyle, 7 day Rotating Roster
• Mackay Location 

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.

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 Crisis Support Space (CSS) service provides peer-led, non-clinical therapeutic services to people who may have presented to an emergency department when facing psychological distress or a mental health crisis. CSS offers a range of personalised supports and in person services for clients with or without a mental health diagnosis, those experiencing suicidal ideation or thoughts of self-harm and where alcohol and other drugs may be an issue. The service is designed as café like space with a supportive, calming environment where clients, families and carers are supported by peer workers who will use their specialist skills and lived experience to lead people on a journey to better health with improved access to mental health crisis services, information, meaningful referrals, counselling, 1:1 supports and group work programs to achieve wellbeing goals, build capacity and daily living skills, reduce social isolation, strengthen social relationships, develop community networks and maintain a sustainable, purposeful lifestyle.

We are seeking self-motivated, compassionate Peer Practitioners eager to make a difference in people’s lives. This is a casual opportunity to work on a 7-day rotating roster in the Mackay area. You will utilise your lived experience of mental ill health and recovery to support clients with positive person-centred, recovery-orientated services to achieve wellbeing goals, build capacity and life skills, reduce social isolation, strengthen social connections, develop community networks and maintain a purposeful lifestyle.

Key responsibilities

• Utilise your own lived experience of mental challenges and recovery to support and empower clients in their own recovery journey.
• 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.
• Plan and deliver group programs that aid clients to build their skills and focus on recovery.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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, AOD 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.

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.)
• Access to our Employee Assistance Program (EAP), provided by Converge International, for you and your immediate family members.
• Learning, development and career opportunities.

Interested?

To obtain a position description and apply online click Apply Now to visit Mind Careers - reference number 494939. Please contact the person below for more information.

Gayle Clifford - Service Manager, Mackay Step Up Step Down & Crisis Support Space

[email protected]

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.