• Build the capacity of Service Delivery teams to deliver and administer NDIS services
• Enhance the capability of Neami and Me Well to transition effectively to the NDIS
• Three year maximum term contract

“Full citizenship for all people living with a mental illness in Australian society.”

About the Role:

• Full Time position within the Innovations and Projects team
• Head Office located in Preston, refurbished office
• Three year maximum term contract
• Assist Neami and Me Well to adapt and respond in a changing and evolving operational environment

About You:

The Project Officer – NDIS will work closely with the NDIS Business Analyst within the Innovations and Projects team in managing and co-ordinating a diverse range of projects and activities to enhance Neami and Me Well’s NDIS readiness. This will involve building the capacity of service delivery teams to deliver and administer NDIS services, working on project teams and working groups, developing project plans, reports, frameworks and practice guides to ensure national cohesion and appropriate resource allocation and oversight.

Projects will vary over time in accordance with the strategic directions and priorities of the organisation and may include projects unrelated to the NDIS.

It is expected that the Project Officer – NDIS will have experience in project management and stakeholder engagement, excellent written and verbal skills and knowledge of the mental health and/or community sector services, as well as the ability to apply change management processes and work with complexity and ambiguity, and to deadlines.

About Neami

Neami National is a community-based recovery and rehabilitation service supporting people living with mental illness and psychiatric disability to improve their health, live independently and pursue a life based on their own strengths, values and goals. We provide services in more than 50 locations, ranging from the inner-city and suburbs to regional and remote parts of Australia. Me Well is a startup that has been created by Neami for the purpose of delivering psychosocial disability support services in the NDIS.

Our vision is for full citizenship for all people living with a mental illness in Australian society. Our mission is to improve mental health and wellbeing in local communities across the country.

We believe that recovery is an individual process and that with the right kind of support everyone can live a life based on their own strengths, values and goals for the future.

We use an approach called the Collaborative Recovery Model (CRM) to support people through our services. The CRM assists individuals to identify their personal strengths and values, to set goals and then helps them make progress towards achieving them.

Why Neami?

The values, skills, attributes and commitment of our staff are key to our success and reputation as a national mental health service that provides high quality support services to people living with a mental illness. Staff are valued and supported to learn and develop through regular opportunities to reflect on their practice at the team level and participate in targeted training.

We also offer:

• An ‘Accrued Day Off’ every month
• Extensive Learning and Development Program
• Generous salary packaging with rewarding NFP fringe benefit tax exemptions
• Excellent conditions including 3 months paid maternity leave (in addition to the government parental leave scheme), generous long service leave, 3 days gratis leave and industry leading pay rates

A position description is attached below.