Community Mental Health Engagement Worker

Lmhn; Bendigo; On-site; AUD 52,000 - 63,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Staff health

Education opportunities

Salary packaging

Flexible working arrangements

Gym access

Job summary

Bendigo Health in Bendigo, VIC is seeking a Community Mental Health Engagement Worker to join the Adult Community Mental Health Team at the John Bomford Centre. This community-based role focuses on helping consumers and families stay connected to services and navigate mental health, health, and social systems.

Your work will support recovery and enable clinicians to deliver focused care, with flexible hours including full-time or part-time options through November 2026.

Qualifications

• Community-based role focusing on mental health.
• Experience in community health settings preferred.
• Compassionate and collaborative approach to care.

Responsibilities

• Help consumers and families stay connected to services and navigate mental health, health and social systems.
• Support recovery and free up clinicians to deliver focused care.

Job description

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Community Mental Health Engagement Worker

Location: Bendigo

Work in an environment that offers:

• An opportunity to work with a leading regional health service!
• A strong attitude to learning!
• Excellent clinical exposure across a range of specialties!

The Position

Job Reference: 4619

Position Title: Community Mental Health Engagement Worker
Classification: NP11, PE21, YB20 - AJ10, YC42 - AJ56
Salary per hour (exc. super): $42.61, $39.77, $37.90 - $46.10
Hours per fortnight: 64 -80 Hours (includes an ADO every 4 weeks, if working 80 hours)
Employment Status: Fixed Term, Full Time and Part Time hours available - Until November2026

Other Requirements: 2026 Flu Vaccination

Kickstart your career in mental health! We're seeking a Community Mental Health Engagement Worker (CMHEW) to join our Adult Community Mental Health Team in Bendigo located at the John Bomford Centre.

In this community-based role, you'll help consumers and families stay connected to services and navigate mental health, health, and social systems. Your support will enhance recovery and free up clinicians to deliver focused care.

Working with Bendigo Health

Bendigo Health are a leader in regional health care, combining outstanding services with a strong education, training and personal development culture.

Created by our community in the 1850s, we have a long, proud history of delivering excellent care to our community.

Our organisation is diverse, welcoming and committed to delivering our vision of Excellent Care. Every Person, Every Time.

Bendigo Health has around 5000 staff and a catchment area covering a quarter of the size of Victoria. The three main campuses of Bendigo Health are in Bendigo, with many services extended to regional settings including areas such as Mildura, Echuca, Swan Hill, Kyneton and Castlemaine.

We offer a fantastic range of benefits for our staff, including:

• Staff health and wellbeing programs
• Career development and education opportunities
• Generous salary packaging opportunities, to increase your take-home pay each fortnight
• Flexible Working Arrangements
• Use of staff gym and pool and access to other fitness facilities through fitness passport program

If successful for a position at Bendigo Health you must provide evidence of your full immunisation record as part of the on boarding process.

Your New Division

The Mental Health Service provides psychiatric care and treatment across a large catchment area in Victoria stretching from Swan Hill in the north of the state to Gisborne in the south. Family sensitive practice is central to our models of mental health care and best practice ensures the identification, inclusion and support of families, carers and children.

Bendigo is one of Victoria’s largest regional cities making it a great city to live and work in. Bendigo provides services for the region’s population of over 320,000 and so the city offers excellent schools, shopping and cultural precincts, sporting facilities and various tertiary facilities. We can offer generous flexible working arrangements - giving you more time to enjoy the fantastic restaurants, beautiful parks, walking trails and wineries within our region.

Interested?

Need more information? Please contact Daniel Johnstone, Acting Manager on 5440 6529 for a confidential discussion.

Diversity and Inclusion

Bendigo Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We embrace diversity and social inclusion and encourage people from a diverse cultural background, people with disabilities and or Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander people to apply.

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