Mental Health Wellbeing Worker

cohealth; Melbourne; On-site; AUD 60,000 - 90,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Parental leave benefits

Salary packaging up to $15,900 p.a.

Novated leasing available

Discounted fitness membership

Job summary

cohealth is seeking a Mental Health & Wellbeing Worker to join a multidisciplinary team in the West Mental Health & Wellbeing Local, Wyndham catchment. The role focuses on warm, trauma-informed, recovery-oriented service delivery and will collaborate with clinicians, lived experience staff, peer workers, bicultural workers and partner organisations.

The ideal candidate will have strong psychosocial assessment, engagement skills and experience with distress or trauma.

Qualifications

• Strong psychosocial assessment, engagement and support-planning skills.
• Experience working with people experiencing distress, trauma, complexity or uncertainty.
• Able to form respectful, professional relationships with clear boundaries.
• Alignment with cohealth values and mission

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Psychosocial assessment

Engagement and support-planning

Working with distress/trauma/uncertity

Job description

Mental Health Wellbeing Worker

• 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.

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 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 Lew is 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.