Are you passionate about Mental Health, and want to make a difference in the lives of consumers, and have a positive impact in the wheatbelt community?
This newly created role will be responsible for providing community-based mental health intake, care navigation and brief intervention forming part of the Medical Mental Health Centre.
About the role
- You will deliver scheduled outreach support across identified Wheatbelt
locations, including regular regional travel and mobile service delivery.
- You
will conduct intake, screening, and psychosocial assessments of both walk-in or referred consumers
- You
will support
engagement with priority cohorts, including people in rural communities and
Aboriginal people, through culturally secure and locally responsive practice.
- You
will manage a case load of consumers, delivering excellent clinical
service typically between 8-10 sessions per consumer.
- You
will form part of a growing, diverse, and passionate team who are making a
difference in the community.
- You will Maintain
accurate consumer records, activity data and required system entries to support
reporting, compliance and program evaluation requirements.
This is a full-time position of 37.5 hours per
week through to 30 June 2028. The role is based at our Northam office, with the flexibility to work
from other Holyoake locations on occasion.
About you
- You hold a relevant tertiary qualification in Psychology, Social Work, Counselling, or similar.
- You
have a minimum of 2 years experience working with individuals experiencing mental health distress,
suicide risk and/or AOD comorbidity.
- You
have excellent organisation and interpersonal skills.
- You have a strong
understanding of culturally secure practice when working with Aboriginal
people, ACCOs and regional communities.
- You have demonstrated experience
working in community and/or outreach settings, preferably in regional or rural
contexts (desirable)
- You
hold or can obtain a current National Police Clearance
Why work with us?
Holyoake has a proud 50-year history of giving people
impacted by alcohol, drugs and mental ill health the support, hope and
confidence they need to live the life they choose. We operate across five
locations in Victoria Park, Midland, Northam, Narrogin and Merredin, and employ
over 110 staff. The Holyoake Approach guides our way of working, and other
benefits include:
- Starting
salary of $91,000 p/a + super
- Flexible
work conditions
- Up
to 3 days additional paid Christmas leave
- Options
to salary package up to $15,900 per annum for general living expenses and
an additional $2,650 per annum for entertainment benefits, to increase
your take-home pay
- Opportunities
for growth and development within a supportive and inclusive
organisational culture
- Free
on site parking
If this sounds like the perfect opportunity for you, then we
want to hear from you. We are seeking to appoint someone to this role as soon
as possible and will close this vacancy once suitable candidates have been
identified.
Please apply without delay!
To apply, please click on the apply button and follow the
prompts attaching a current detailed resume and covering letter.
For further information please contact Steve
Papadopoulos, Service Manager on SPapadopoulos@Holyoake.org.au or 9261
1055.
We actively promote a working environment that values
diversity and inclusion. We strongly encourage applications from Aboriginal and
Torres Strait Islander people, people from culturally diverse backgrounds,
people who identify as LGBTQIA+ and people with a disability. If you have any
support or access requirements, we encourage you to advise us at time of
application.
