Practice Development Advisor (Internal Applicants Only)

Mind Australia Limited; Melbourne; Hybrid; AUD 60,000 - 80,000; Part time

Job summary

Mind Australia seeks a Practice Development Advisor to provide expert guidance on practice standards, knowledge transfer, and continuous quality improvement across the organisation. This national, fixed-term, part-time role focuses on supporting operational teams to achieve best-practice standards and policy compliance.

The successful candidate will guide workforce skills development, embed knowledge transfer methods, and ensure lived experience is central to service delivery.

Qualifications

• Tertiary qualifications (minimum Certificate IV) in Mental Health, AOD, Health, Social Policy, Social Science or other health-related field are required.
• Post-graduate qualifications in a relevant field are desirable.
• Comprehensive knowledge of safety and quality principles and systems in a health care setting.
• Proven ability to support managers and staff to monitor, evaluate and improve services.

Responsibilities

• Develop skills and knowledge to provide specialist practice and quality support to staff within allocated service stream.
• Build relationships with operational leaders to ensure collaborative development work.
• Develop, deliver and evaluate practice development projects across the organisation.
• Support Mind’s Quality Framework and embed a culture of innovation and improvement.
• Elevate the voice of Lived Experience and Lived Expertise in all work.

Skills

Safety & quality governance

Change management

Staff coaching

Education

Certificate IV in Mental Health or related field

Job description

Practice Development Advisor (Internal Applicants Only)

• Drive high quality mental health services in a national role
• Part time 19 hours/week | Fixed term role
• Burnley Location | Hybrid Working

Mind strongly encourages applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, and applicants from all cultures, genders, sexualities, bodies, abilities, spiritualities, ages and backgrounds.

Mind Australia is one of Australia’s largest providers of community-managed psychosocial services, supporting people experiencing mental health and wellbeing challenges to find help, hope and purpose in their lives. Operating for almost 50 years and employing more than 1,300 staff around Australia, Mind is a leading employer of people with lived experience of mental health challenges, recognising their unique ability to connect with and motivate clients and guide recovery.

About the role

The Practice Development Advisor will provide expert advice and leadership in implementing practice standards, driving knowledge transfer, and fostering continuous quality improvement across our organisation. This national role will focus on guiding and supporting operational teams in achieving best practice standards and ensuring compliance with policies and procedures.

We are seeking a skilled and experienced Practice Development Advisor for a fixed term, part time opportunity in the Burnley area. In this role, you will provide expert guidance to support workforce skills development and ensure knowledge transfer methods and models are embedded into service delivery.

Key responsibilities

• Develop skills and knowledge to provide specialist practice and quality support to staff within allocated service stream.
• Build strong relationships with operational leaders across Mind to ensure developmental work is collaborative
• Develop, deliver and evaluate a range of practice development projects and activities across the organisation that support best practice.
• Demonstrate a commitment to Mind’s Quality Framework and the development of strategies to ensure that a culture of innovation and improvement is embedded in systems and processes.
• In all work undertaken, ensure the voice of Lived Experience and Lived Expertise is elevated.

What you’ll bring

• Tertiary qualifications (minimum Certificate IV) in Mental Health, AOD, Health, Social Policy, Social Science or other health-related field are required. Post-graduate tertiary qualifications in a relevant field are desirable.
• Comprehensive knowledge of safety and quality principles and systems in a health care setting
• Demonstrated ability to support managers and staff to monitor, evaluate and improve services through an effective organisational practice governance approach and provision of tools, methods and resources relevant to the mental health sector.
• Demonstrated success in supporting the design, management, implementation and evaluation of practice improvement projects or change management programs.

Position Description

The successful applicant is required to complete comprehensive reference and background checking prior to employment, including a Working with Children Check and 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