Community Mental Health Practitioner

Mind Australia; Melton; On-site; AUD 65,000 - 85,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary packaging

Meal and Entertainment allowance

8 weeks paid parental leave

EAP for you and family

Fitness Passport

Professional development

Job summary

Mind Australia is seeking a self-motivated Community Mental Health Practitioner for a Part Time, Fixed Term until January 2027 in the Melton Local area. The role involves telehealth, one-to-one support and group work to improve wellbeing and recovery.

Responsibilities include developing recovery plans, coordinating with a multidisciplinary team, and facilitating group programs while engaging families and carers. Mind Australia supports lived experience and diverse backgrounds.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of trauma-informed approaches and recovery-oriented practice.
• Experience with evidence-informed approaches and tools for recovery.
• Ability to plan goal-focused recovery with consumers and carers.

Responsibilities

• Support consumers with recovery planning via telehealth, one-to-one, and group work.
• Collaborate with a multidisciplinary team in recovery-oriented practice.
• Develop and facilitate group programs to build daily living skills.
• Engage families and carers with appropriate resources and support.
• Contribute to a workplace valuing lived experience and inclusion.

Skills

Trauma-informed

Motivational interviewing

Harm reduction

Family-inclusive

Recovery planning

Multidisciplinary team

Education

Certificate IV or higher in Mental Health/related field

Job description

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 service

The Mental Health and Wellbeing Local services act as a front door to the mental health service system and provides a continuum of care and support including clinical interventions, wellbeing supports, and therapeutic support through an integrated mental health and alcohol and other drug framework approach.

About the role

We are seeking a self-motivated, empathetic Community Mental Health Practitioner for a Part Time, Fixed Term until January 2027 to work in the Melton area Local. This position will play an integral part in working collaboratively with consumers to achieve their wellbeing and recovery goals through telehealth, one-to-one support, and group work facilitation to enhance recovery, personal growth and activities of daily living.

Key responsibilities

• Support consumers with actioning their recovery plan in a range of areas including understanding and managing consumer’s own mental health and/or AOD challenges as well as developing daily living skills and capacity for self-care, amongst other duties.
• Plan and develop group work programs that will assist consumers to build their skills, focus on their recovery and work towards transitioning back to their natural community.
• Facilitate, as appropriate, the re-engagement and maintenance of family and carer relationships., as well as working with families and carers to provide specialised resources for how to access support for themselves.
• Work within a multidisciplinary team in supporting recovery-oriented practice and clinician interventions as well as actively participating in team, case and handover meetings.
• Contribute to a workplace that values lived experience and the inclusion of consumers, carers and families in the work we do.

What you’ll bring

• Tertiary qualifications (minimum Certificate IV) in Mental Health, Psychology, Social Work, Occupational Therapy, Community Services or other professional field as designated by Mind.
• Demonstrated knowledge and experience in the application of theoretical approaches, practices and appropriate service responses including family inclusive practice, trauma informed theory, cognitive behavioural therapy, motivational interviewing and harm reduction therapy.
• A lived experience of mental ill health and recovery or experience caring for a person with mental ill health is desirable.
• Experience in assessing need and working collaboratively to plan goal focused recovery using evidence informed approaches and tools.
• 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 8 weeks paid parental leave, 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.
• Fitness Passport - Access to our corporate health and fitness program, providing you and family with access to a wide choice of fitness facilities.
• Professional development through regular Practice Development sessions and coaching with your supervisor

Interested?

Tero Anttila– Team Leader (Lived Expertise)
************@mindaustralia.org.au

Position Description

PD Community Mental Health Practitioner - Melton Local - 20251010.pdf

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.

We are committed to making reasonable adjustments to provide a positive, barrier-free recruitment process. If you require any support or reasonable adjustments to complete your application, please contact us at **@mindaustralia.org.au