Job Summary
- $34.04 - $36.50 per hour
- Applications close:
- Job posted on: 5th Aug 2022
- Regional QLD > Bundaberg & Wide Bay Burnett
With significant growth, service innovation, outstanding clinical outcomes and business stability, this is an exciting time to join Queensland’s leading NGO mental health service provider.
A recent independent staff feedback evaluation shows RFQ staff enjoy a culture of success and provides a work environment that benchmarks above industry norms in the Health and Community Services sectors. A best scored attribute in the evaluation shows an organisation that provides a flexible work environment.
The Way Back Support Service is follow-up suicide prevention program. In this role the Support Coordinator is responsible for providing short term support coordination services (non-clinical care and practical support) that will integrate, complement and work collaboratively with existing services to improve the immediacy of follow-up responses for people who are at a high risk of suicide, or who have recently attempted suicide in accordance with RFQ’s Models of Practice.
The Support Coordinator will support and foster a program culture which values lived experience, promotes genuine and open relationships, conflict resolution, responsibility for self, mutual respect and personal growth founded on support values of empowerment, trust, compassion, resilience, diversity, integrity and lifelong learning.
The Way Back Support Service is a Beyond Blue initiative.
As of 1 February 2021, a new worker screening commenced in Queensland for workers that provide supports and services to people with a disability. For further information please visit: here.
Richmond Fellowship Queensland (RFQ) is a leader in the provision of professional recovery-oriented psychosocial services throughout Queensland, and nationally via telehealth services.
Today, RFQ provides a diversity of evidence based psychosocial recovery and allied health services. From working in acute mental health wards and correctional facilities and supporting discharge and release pathways, to keeping people healthy in the community, RFQ’s vision captures the passion and conviction of our work:
A future recovered for people facing mental health challenges and social disadvantage.
This statement of hope is also captured in RFQ’s logo, Recovered Futures. Our RFQ community inspires and reassures people in recovery that there is hope and a future.
Please submit your application (maximum two pages), addressing full list of selection criteria, skills and attributes outlined on the position description, together with your resume identifying two referees (including current report).
To view and download the position description please click Apply Now.
Further information about the role can be obtained by contacting Area Manager, Karen Suey on 3363 2533.
RFQ is committed to diversity in its workforce and encourages applications from people with a lived experience, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, and culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.
Applications close 5 September 2022, However will be considered upon receipt.