• Full time fixed term options
• Liverpool
• Schads Level 3

About One Door

One Door Mental Health is a leading for purpose service provider for those living with mental illness, their families and carers. Our community creates a safe place that connects people, our services are innovative and supported by more than 30 years of experience, and our advocacy work is putting an end to stigma through education and understanding. Creating a world in which people with a mental illness are valued and treated as equals is at the heart of everything we do.

The Program

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown in Greater Sydney, the Federal Government has funded pop up Mental Health Hubs to:

• provide accessible, affordable mental health services and support in the community
• reduce pressure on Emergency Departments, and
• support GPs to provide treatment and care to people with mental ill health.

The One Door Mental Health Hubs will be delivered through a mix of video, phone, and face to face support.

The role

The Mental Health Worker will support people in mental health distress; after triage from the Mental Health Hub Clinicians, through:

• information and referral pathways, to resolve risk factors to mental health and wellbeing
• short-term support, where people cannot easily access other required services.

What we are looking for

• Tertiary qualifications in Youth Work (or related discipline) with a minimum of 2 years’ experience.
• Demonstrated understanding of the factors impacting young people who experience emerging mental illness, and/or who live with mental illness.
• Demonstrated ability to build and maintain positive, honest, and productive relationships with young people.
• Demonstrated experience in developing a recovery-focused plan, providing support and following up.
• Knowledge of the NSW mental health system and local services; or demonstrated ability to rapidly develop this knowledge.

A copy of the position description can be viewed here.

Your application for this position will require you to have:

• a Police Check (verified in the last 6 months)
• a current Working with Children’s Check
• an application in process for the NDIS Worker Screening clearance at Service NSW
• under the current public health order, evidence of at least 1 dose of the Covid-19 vaccine or provide evidence of a medical exemption.

Your values and our values

Our values are integral to everything that we are as an organisation and how we interact with each other, our consumers and carers. As you consider whether this role is for you, please take some time to reflect on your own values and One Door’s values. Click here to view our values ASPIRE to work out if they resonate with you.

For more information regarding this role, contact Chris Jones on 0498 824 342

One Door Mental Health is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer and is committed to engaging a diverse workforce. We strongly encourage applications from people from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander background, people with disability, people from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds and mature aged applicants.