• Permanent Part Time

• 23 hours per week | $32.97 per Hour + penalty rates + salary packaging

• Afternoons/ Evenings and Weekend roster

• Location: Broken Hill, NSW

• Make a meaningful difference to the lives of Australians in need.

Life at Mission Australia

When you join the team at Mission Australia, you become part of a community who are determined to end homelessness and ensure people in need can thrive. United by our Christian purpose and values, we stand together with anyone who needs us, for as long as they need us. Find out more about us and our purpose.

Your Opportunity

The Safe Haven program helps people who are in acute psychological distress and/or experiencing a suicidal crisis by providing rapid and compassionate care by mental health clinicians and peer workers in a non-clinical environment. Safe Haven can provide appropriate and immediate support, as well as referrals and information about a wide range of services in the community such as housing, relationship counselling and financial assistance, to help address the causes of distress.

Your key responsibilities could include:

• Respond to referrals from internal and external support services.
• Provide emotional support to the Consumers by harnessing your own lived experience.
• Engage consumers and develop trusting and professional relationships.
• Provide Support for consumers presenting in Crisis with the available support of a Clinician.
• Be the liaison to the FWLHD and other appropriate supports for consumers.
• Create individual recovery and safety plans with consumers when required.
• Ensure documentation is completed and updated in line with Mission Australia protocols.
• Participate in special projects as agreed with the Program Coordinator/Area Manager
• Help connect the participants to meaningful activities and networks to keep them engaged.
• Co-facilitating and collaborating in planning peer-based groups.

Requirements for Success

• A personal lived experience of mental ill health and recovery in which you have experienced your own mental health challenges and utilised services from a mental health service or individual provider or:
• Lived experience of Suicidal crisis or a lived experience of caring for someone experiencing suicidal crisis or bereavement through suicide.
• knowledge of community activities, programs, and networks in the Broken Hill area
• Demonstrated ability to build effective partnerships.
• Ability to work rostered hours (evenings, weekends and public holidays as required)
• Computer literacy preferably using Windows.
• Current Drivers Licence
• Excellent communications skills both written and verbal.
• A qualification in Mental Health (desirable) or the willingness to work towards obtaining Cert IV in Mental Health Peer Work
• Strong integrity in the workplace and understanding of professional boundaries.

Before starting work with us, you will need to undertake a national police history check, qualifications, and referee checks, and have a clearance to work with children/vulnerable people.

Our culture

Our innovative and inclusive culture will ensure you feel valued at Mission Australia as you help Australians in need and develop in your career.

We’re committed to the safety and wellbeing of each other and the people we serve.

We recognise and respect diversity. So, whoever you are, if you’re skilled and actively support our purpose and values, you would be welcome at Mission Australia.

Find out more about a career with Mission Australia.

We encourage applications from people with disability and Indigenous Australians.

If you have a disability and need support to submit your application, please email [email protected].

Your benefits

• Rewarding work – every day you know you’re making a real difference.
• Not-for-profit salary packaging, reducing your tax (details via AccessPay)
• Free external, confidential counselling and access to chaplaincy support
• Volunteering opportunities
• Extra leave available including an additional public holiday, additional annual leave day on your work anniversary and the opportunity to purchase further annual leave.

How to apply

Click ‘Apply’ and send your application today!

As a committed Circle Back Initiative employer, we will respond to your application.

Applications are shortlisted as they are received. Please apply as soon as possible to be considered. Thank you.