Mental Health Wellbeing Worker

cohealth; Cocoroc; On-site; AUD 55,000 - 69,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Parental leave

Novated Leasing

Discounted gym membership

Counselling services

Salary packaging

Inclusive workplace

Job summary

cohealth are seeking a Mental Health & Wellbeing Worker to join a multidisciplinary team serving the Wyndham catchment in Victoria. The role delivers warm, trauma-informed, recovery-oriented support to adults 26+ with mental health challenges, alongside clinicians, lived experience staff and partner organisations.

You will contribute to brief interventions, wellbeing coaching, psychosocial support, group programs and social prescribing, with strong emphasis on safety planning and coordinated

Qualifications

• Able to form respectful, professional relationships with clear boundaries.
• Strong psychosocial assessment, engagement and support-planning skills.
• Experienced working with people experiencing distress, trauma, complexity or uncertainty.
• Strong belief and personal alignment in cohealth Values and Mission.

Responsibilities

• Provide brief intervention, wellbeing coaching and psychosocial support for people aged 26+ experiencing mental health challenges, psychological distress or psychosocial stressors.
• Support group programs, social prescribing activities, community engagement and partnerships with local services.
• Support navigation of mental health, AOD, family violence, housing, community health and social services.
• Complete risk assessments, safety plans and incident reports in line with cohealth policy.

Skills

Respectful boundaries

Psychosocial assessment

Distress & trauma experience

Values alignment

Job description

• Work for a multi-award-winning iconic community health organisation
• Generous salary packaging options to reduce your cohealth taxable income
  

• Part-Time, Fixed-Term
• Work for a multi-award-winning iconic community health organisation
• Generous salary packaging options to reduce your cohealth taxable income
  

So why cohealth?

cohealth leads the way in reducing health and social inequity in partnership with people and the communities in which they live. Named Premier's Health Service of the Year (Primary) and the Supporting LGBTIQ+ Health Service at the Victorian Public Healthcare Awards, cohealth's 1000 staff demonstrate courage, leadership, innovation, and agility in their commitment to providing inclusive and culturally safe health services that protect the human rights of all people of all gender identities, sexualities, ages, cultural and linguistic backgrounds, faiths, and abilities.

Our inclusive workplace culture enables staff to bring their whole selves to work, where uniqueness is valued, and people experience a feeling of belonging. Our aim is for everyone to thrive in their role. Please clickhereto find out more.

About The Role

cohealth are seeking a Mental Health & Wellbeing Worker to join a multidisciplinary team. This role contributes to the delivery of a warm, accessible, trauma-informed and recovery-oriented service within the West Mental Health & Wellbeing Local, operating across the Wyndham catchment.

The Mental Health & Wellbeing Worker will work alongside clinicians, counsellors, lived experience staff, peer workers, bicultural workers, community engagement staff, and partner organisations.

Please refer to the Position Description for more information.

Your Duties Include

• Provide brief intervention, wellbeing coaching and psychosocial support for people aged 26+ experiencing mental health challenges, psychological distress or psychosocial stressors
• Support group programs, social prescribing activities, community engagement and partnerships with local services
• Support navigation of mental health, AOD, family violence, housing, community health and social services
• Complete risk assessments, safety plans and incident reports in line with cohealth policy

What Cohealth Offers

• Exciting Parental leave benefits:
• cohealth offers primary carers 14 weeks paid parental leave upon completion of only 6 months of continuous service
• Eligible co-workers will continue to receive superannuation on unpaid parental leave as well
• Salary packaging to suit you - tax free amount of up to $15,900 p.a (mortgage, rent, or credit cards) and a further $2,650 p.a (meal, entertainment expenses and holiday accommodation) alongside generous reward programs from our salary packaging providers. Find out more on salary packaging here:https://www.ato.gov.au/Individuals/Jobs-and-employment-types/Working-as-an-employee/Salary-sacrificing-for-employees/
• Novated Leasing available
• A significantly discounted fitness membership with unlimited access to over 290 facilities for you and your family. To find out more click here
• Counselling services for you and your immediate family through our EAP-Access provider, and mindfulness, resilience, and wellbeing programs
• We offer inclusion, equality, and opportunity in a workplace where making a difference counts (based on our guiding principles and values)

Our Ideal Candidate

• Able to form respectful, professional relationships with clear boundaries.
• Strong psychosocial assessment, engagement and support-planning skills.
• Experienced working with people experiencing distress, trauma, complexity or uncertainty.
• Strong belief and personal alignment in cohealth Values and Mission.

Application Process

We will be conducting interviews for this role as applications are received.

Applications close on the mentioned date at 10.00 PM.

If you have any questions regarding this role, please contact Abbie Lewis on [e-mail]

All appointments are made subject to a satisfactory Nationally Coordinated Criminal History Check (NCCHC), a Working With Children Check (WWCC), complete a Pre-Employment Declaration Form, evidence of legal rights to work in Australia, and evidence of vaccination.

Successful applicants will be required to provide evidence of immunisation assessment including Influenza within 12 weeks of commencement [B]. This is in accordance with the Victorian Minister of Health Mandatory Vaccination Orders and legislated requirement for influenza vaccination.