Wellbeing Navigator – Psychosocial – Mental Health and Wellbeing Local – Frankston
- Multiple positions, full and part time
- Engage with community members to co-design innovative mental health services.
- SCHCADS 4. Generous salary packaging.
Play a key role in major mental health reform in Victoria to ensure everyone is supported to access the services they need, close to their home.
You will be part of the launch of one of the first of 60 Mental Health Locals in Victoria.
This is an amazing opportunity to shape the future of peer and community led mental health services for adults and older adults.
This local support is a key recommendation of the recent Royal Commission into Victoria’s mental health system and promises to make our community a better place to be.
The Mental Health and Wellbeing Local – Frankston: Wellways, Mentis Assist, and Peninsula Health are working together to provide mental health and wellbeing supports in Frankston to ensure that everyone can access treatment and care close to home.
We are working with the local community and people who have personal experience of mental health issues and recovery to build these services so that they are the best they can be. Our service delivery will be informed by lived experience and co-produced by the local community.
About the role
Reporting to the Senior Wellbeing Navigator and employed by Mentis Assist, you will provide individual support and group interventions to consumers, assist with service navigation, and link consumers to therapy sessions. Your practice will be person centered, strengths based, trauma informed and recovery driven. You will value the experience of our consumers to help inform your practice.
About you
As this is a newly created service, your ability to work flexibly and agilely within a developing service delivery partnership is essential. You are ready and willing to implement the changes to mental health services as recommended by the Royal Commission into Mental Health. Above all, your approach will be innovative and collaborative. Eventually the service will operate 7 days a week, and on weekday evenings.
If this sounds like an ideal match for your approach to mental health and wellbeing service delivery, please contact us to discuss or lodge your application now.
Requirements
- Minimum Certificate IV in Mental Health; higher relevant qualifications such as the Diploma of Mental Health/AOD or a relevant degree would be well regarded.
- Minimum 2 years mental health experience in a similar role in a community mental health setting
- Innovative approach to mental health service delivery
- Experience working with consumers in the co-design of mental health services
- Prior experience or willingness to learn and work with Microsoft Office, Salesforce, Tableu or other applications as required.
- Current Victorian Driver’s License
- Right to Work in Australia
- National Police Check and Working with Children Check
- Evidence of complete COVID 19 vaccination or valid medical exemption
- We are committed to reconciliation, lived experience, and inclusiveness. We strongly encourage and warmly welcome people from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island communities, people with lived experience of mental health issues and disability, people who identify as LGBTIQ+ to apply. Even if you meet only some of the criteria, we’d love to hear from you.
The Mental Health Locals teams will have an amazing opportunity to drive much-needed mental health improvements for our communities.
To view the position description to find out more, visit our website under “work with us/current vacancies www.mentisassist.org.au.
If you would like to find out more about this exciting new way of delivering mental health services, contact Jayne Parish, Services Manager, Mentis Assist or Cathy Campbell, Human Resource Manager on 03 5970 5000. Please submit a covering letter and your current curriculum vitae to [email protected]
Apply as soon as possible. We will start interviewing as applications are received.