PAY BANDING RANGE: $64- 75k base + 11% Super + $9000 Motor Vehicle Allowance

NOT FOR PROFIT: Salary package up to $15,900 per annum each FBT year plus further meals and entertainment benefits up to $2649 pa

FULL TIME –Based at Armadale Hospital’s Community Mental Health Clinic in Gosnells

About the Role

We are seeking a motivated and enthusiastic Employment Consultant who will be working with a team of Mental Health Clinicians to support candidates in gaining and sustaining employments through the Individual Placement and Support Program.

Based in Armadale Hospital’s Community Mental Health Clinic and working in a close-knit team, this is an exceptionally rewarding position where no two days will be the same. Through your engagement and support of jobseekers with varying barriers and capacities you will be responsible for conducting initial job seeker assessment, building relationships to promote engagement, identifying and promoting employability skills, and job matching.

The aim of the IPS program is to improve the education and employment outcomes of people with mental illness. The IPS program integrates employment and vocational services with clinical mental health and non-vocational support and focuses on the individual needs of people with mental illness who are seeking to enter, or remain in, education and/or employment.

We are seeking an individual with training and qualification or progressing towards a qualification in Mental Health who can apply their passion, demonstrated professionalism, and an ability to build relationships to this position.

Benefits & Culture

As a part of genU, Matchworks are a group of passionate, driven people who want everyone’s lives to be happier and healthier, especially people with disabilities, the ageing and those experiencing disadvantage. We operate solely for community benefit and invest back into the same communities in which our services are delivered.

There are so many benefits available when you work with MatchWorks, some of which include:

• Increase your take home pay: Salary package up to $15,900 per annum each FBT year plus further meals and entertainment benefits. Company car allowance.
• Employee Discount Program: Save money with employee discounts and savings at over 450 of Australia’s most loved retailers and service providers including Coles, Woolworths & JB HI-FI.
• Study Scholarship: All genU employees are eligible for a 20% scholarship towards undergraduate and postgraduate courses at Torrens University.
• Focus on Work-life balance: 15 days personal leave (5 days over award standard) per annum and a 2pm early finish per month for full-time staff and pro-rata for part-time staff, and ability to purchase extra leave on top of 4 weeks annual leave.
• Employee Referral Program: Refer someone to work at genU and receive a generous cash bonus once that person completes their 6-month qualifying period.
• Parental Leave: Secondary care givers are entitled to 5 days paid under our Parent Leave Policy

If we still have your attention on this fantastic opportunity, here is a little more about us!

At MatchWorks, we believe everyone deserves the opportunity to work. That is why, every year, we help thousands of people from all backgrounds, ages, and abilities to find sustainable employment. We are also part of the genU family, and we proudly reinvest our profits back into the communities we work within to help people lead their best lives! At genU, we’re not all the same. And that’s one of our greatest strengths. We draw on the differences in who we are, what we’ve experienced, and how we think. Because to live our values and to succeed in our vision, we must all be active in building inclusive communities.

MatchWorks has a long and successful history as an employment services provider where we have improved and enriched the lives of individuals through pathways to ongoing, sustainable employment whilst providing effective recruitment solutions for employers. Our people work for us because they are rewarded, developed and take great pride in working for a not-for-profit that benefits so many.

Matchworks requires all employees, contractors, volunteers, and work-placement students to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19, unless they are an Excepted Person as defined by the COVID-19 Mandatory Vaccination (Workers) Directions. All applicants must therefore be able to comply with this requirement.If this sounds like a position that suits your current career focus, we would love to hear from you!

Contact

For further details please contact Jordan Vermeulen, IPS Supervisor on 0477 015 746 or via email [email protected]

If you require any support or reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, please email [email protected]

At MatchWorks we’re committed to providing a work environment which is inclusive to all, we encourage applicants from people of all ages, nationalities and abilities and cultures including indigenous peoples, LGBTQIA+ community and people with a disability.