Rural Adversity Mental Health Program (RAMHP) Coordinator

Far West Local Health District; Broken Hill; On-site; AUD 119,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

5 weeks annual leave

Salary packaging

Novated leasing

Paid allocated day off

Learning & Development

Fitness Passport

Lifestyle benefits

Job summary

Far West Local Health District seeks a RAMHP Coordinator to raise awareness of mental health needs in rural communities and develop care pathways spanning services and programs. You’ll connect people and families to appropriate supports and collaborate with clinicians to improve referral processes.

Based in Broken Hill, the role offers a permanent full-time contract with an incentive scheme and ongoing professional development opportunities as part of NSW Health.

Qualifications

• Experience in community health or mental health services.
• Ability to work with multi-disciplinary teams in rural areas.
• Strong communication and information delivery about mental health.
• Willingness to participate in clinical team meetings.

Responsibilities

• Identify communities and individuals in rural NSW at risk of mental illness or distress and connect them with care pathways.
• Provide information about mental illness and services to the community and targeted individuals.
• Deliver education to rural agencies to build capacity for referral and response.
• Collaborate with mental health teams and communities to improve referral processes and literacy.
• Attend clinical team meetings as required and engage with interagency networks.
• Support patients, families and carers with information to look after their mental health.

Job description

This position qualifies for an annual Recruitment Incentive Package up to the value of $10,000 (conditions apply and may be pro-rata’d to your contracted or ordinary working hours, these payments are paid on a fortnightly basis) under the NSW Health Rural Health Workforce Incentive Scheme.

This scheme recognises the role key health workers play in enabling the delivery of rural and remote health services, and aims to provide incentives over and above award entitlements, to attract and retain staff in these areas.

Employment Type: Permanent Full Time

Position Classification: Health Manager Level 2

Remuneration: $118,821 - $140,201 + Superannuation

Hours Per Week: 38

Requisition ID: REQ699021

Location: Broken Hill NSW

We really aren’t that far away - only 3 hours’ drive from Mildura, 5 hours from Adelaide or a short flight from anywhere in Australia with everything you need right at your front door!

• Opportunity to work on the frontline to join a truly supportive team that is empowered to provide the ultimate patient experience
• Grow your career with us with ongoing learning and development
• Get exposure to work across different areas you would not get in the big smoke!

Broken Hill truly is a town like no other with a supportive community that will welcome you with open arms. We can't wait to see you! Take a quick look at "Living and Working" in the Far West.

What You'll Be Doing

• The position of the RAMHP Coordinator is to raise awareness of, and help address, the short and long term mental health needs of people in Far West Local Health District resulting from or preparing for rural adversity.
• The primary aim of the RAMHP Coordinator is to identify communities and individuals who live in rural and remote NSW experiencing or at risk of developing signs and symptoms of mental illness or distress and develop pathways to care so that they, and their families and carers, can be connected with services and programs.
• Provide information about mental illness and services and programs to the whole community and to targeted individuals to facilitate recognition of when an individual may need extra support for their mental health.
• Provide education services to targeted rural agencies and services that have contact with people experiencing adversity and build their capacity to respond and refer to appropriate services.
• Work in partnership with the mental health teams, clinicians and their respective communities to improve mental health referral processes. This will include strategies to improve the mental health literacy and referral/response capacity of people working in rural areas, and promote a system of care that is closely integrated, linking industry and other health sectors. The RAMHP Coordinator may be required to attend clinical team meetings from time to time.
• The RAMHP Coordinator will be connected to interagencies and other networks as required.
• Work with and support the mental health and family and carer teams to ensure that patients, families and carers are provided with the information they need to look after their own mental health.

What Is On Offer

• 5 weeks paid annual leave per year
• Salary packaging (pay less tax) and enjoy up to $9k for living expenses + $2.6k meal & entertainment
• Novated leasing
• Paid allocated day off (ADO) every month
• Learning and Development support with access to further education & training
• Fitness Passport
• A comfortable and affordable lifestyle with some of the best food, wine and scenery at your doorstep

About The Far West LHD

The Far West Local Health District is one of 15 LHDs under NSW Health, providing high quality public health services to the communities in far west NSW. FWLHD has a mandate to provide the highest quality care and services to its communities using the latest clinical evidence and technological enablers. Our vision is to create excellence in rural and remote healthcare.
Key to our success of course, is our people. Our workforce is inclusive and diverse. We employ well over 800 clinicians and support staff across our 9 health facilities in Broken Hill, Balranald, Dareton, Ivanhoe, Menindee, Tibooburra, Wentworth, White Cliffs and Wilcannia. In the Far West LHD, we are working together to make a real difference to the health outcomes for our communities. We encourage you to consider joining our friendly team for a meaningful and rewarding career in rural and remote healthcare.

About Broken Hill

A true “Oasis in the Outback”, Broken Hill is a thriving regional town in far west NSW full of diversity, history and character. Being Australia’s first city to be Nationally Heritage Listed, Broken Hill is a culturally rich town with a vibrant art scene with over 20 galleries! The unique attractions, festivals and beautiful natural landscapes see tourists flock from all over, but the ones who stay quickly fall in love with the place and its liveability.
With a population just shy of 20,000, Broken Hill is small enough to allow for a relaxed country lifestyle, while big enough to provide all the desired facilities of a regional hub including major supermarkets and retail stores, excellent schools (7 primary & 2 high), multiple gyms & aquatic centre, well-known fast-food franchises and a plethora of trendy restaurants, pubs and cafés.

The Welcome Experience in Broken Hill connects you and your family with local people and local resources to help you settle in and feel at home in your new community faster.

Applications Close: 9th November 2026

Stepping Up

The Stepping Up Website is a resource designed to help Aboriginal job applicants apply for positions within NSW Health. If you are an Aboriginal person and wish to obtain more information about applying for a role with us, please visit:
https://www.steppingup.health.nsw.gov.au/

Empower, listen and act together

Together, we can make a positive difference in the lives of all children, young people and families within our community to keep them safe from harm and to empower children's voices.

At Far West Local Health District we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, where we don’t just accept differences, but we honour and support it. Committed to providing a working environment that thrives and values diversity, we encourage people of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander background, people with a disability and people from the LGBTQI+ community to apply.

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