Wellbeing Navigator – Psychosocial – Mental Health and Wellbeing Local – Frankston
- Engage with community members to co-design innovative mental health services.
- SCHADS 4, generous salary packaging.
- 1.0 FTE Full -Time position (38 hours per week) fixed term until 31/12/2026
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.
This is an amazing opportunity to help 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 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, and assist with service navigation. 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
Your ability to work flexibly and agilely within a 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, IT applications as required. Current Victorian Driver’s License
- Right to Work in Australia
- National Police Check and Working with Children Check
- 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.
Application Process
Applicants will need to view the Position Description on our website, which details Key Selection Criteria. It can be accessed via https://mentisassist.org.au/work-with-us/current-vacancies.
Please submit your CV and cover letter addressing the Key Selection Criteria. Applications that do not address the Selection Criteria in a separate cover letter will not be considered.
For further information, please contact Frankston Mental Health and Wellbeing Local, 1800 000 525, email hr@mentisassist.org.au, or visit our website www.mentisassist.org.au.
Apply as soon as possible. We will start interviewing as applications are received.
The Mental Health Locals teams will have an amazing opportunity to drive much-needed mental health improvements for our communities.
Mentis Assist is an equal opportunity employer and strongly encourages applications from diverse backgrounds including those with a lived experience of mental illness, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, and members of the LGBTIQ+ community.
