Join our Team

• Deliver person-centred outreach services to clients with mental health challenges to achieve their life goals and enjoy a meaningful life
• Full-time opportunity with Company Car | Fixed term until June 2025
• Monday to Friday 9 am to 5 pm (including public holidays)
• Cairns Location

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.

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 an empathic, self-motivated Community Mental Health Practitioner for a fixed-term, full-time opportunity until June 2025, to work alongside a caring team in the Cairns area. You will provide recovery-focused outreach services including face-to-face, online and telephone supports, ensuring a person-centred approach to decision making. Additionally, you will support clients and their families to access the services they require. As this position requires travel, a fully maintained company car is provided.

Key responsibilities

• Deliver high quality outreach 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.
• Collaborate with a range of services and the community to ensure a co-ordinated, integrated response to 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.
• 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.
• Demonstrated understanding of the Community Services sector and ability to build strong relationships with service providers, clinical teams and key stakeholders.
• Ability to provide a record of Vaccination Preventable Diseases (or able to obtain vaccinations) against Covid-19, 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.).
• Option to access Meal and Entertainment allowance up to $2,650 p.a. via Salary Packaging.
• Generous leave entitlements including 17.5% annual leave loading, and Monthly Accumulated Day off (Full time employees).
• 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 visit Mind Careers - reference number 495014. Online applications must be submitted by 11pm Monday 27 May 2024. Please contact the person below for more information.

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

Toni.Hines@mindaustralia.org.au

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.

 PD Community Mental Health Practitioner (Mind Centres QLD) 20230130.pdf