• Boost take home pay with salary packaging and lifestyle banking benefits


• Access our fitness passport - affordable entry to gyms and wellness facilities


• Permanent Part Time, 22.5 hours p / week Monday - Sunday extended hours


• Casual work available for those preferring flexibility


• Work in a growing regional community in the heart of Victoria's Bass Coast

Mind Australia is one of Australia's largest providers of community-managed psychosocial services, supporting people experiencing mental health and wellbeing challenges to find help, hope and purpose in their lives. Operating for more than 45 years and employing more than 1,300 staff around Australia, Mind is a leading employer of people with lived experience of mental health challenges, recognising their unique ability to connect with and motivate clients and guide recovery.

About the Service

The Housing with Support program is a service designed for adults living with severe and enduring psychosocial disability and co-occurring concerns and/or dual disabilities which have impacted their capacity to live independently in the community.

Participants are supported individually and in a group setting to better understand and develop strategies to manage the impacts of their mental health, enhance personal and daily living skills, create meaningful social and community connections, strengthen relationships with families and friends and build confidence and capacity to live independently.

About the role

We are seeking resourceful and collaborative Psychosocial Disability Support Workers for permanent part time (22.5 hours per week), opportunities located in Wonthaggi. You will deliver personalised support services and work collaboratively with participants to achieve their recovery and capacity building goals through one-to-one support, shared supports, workshops and group work facilitation to enhance recovery, personal growth and activities of daily living.

Key responsibilities

• Work with participants to imagine and live a meaningful life by supporting them through a staged approach to recovery


• Plan and develop group work programs that will assist participants to build their skills, focus on their recovery, wellbeing and capacity building


• Support family and carers through understanding their concerns and the provision of information, education and referrals


• Make linkages and build relationships and referral pathways to maintain or create a range of local supports for participants that facilitate them to live the life of their choosing in their own community


• Contribute to the day-to-day operations of the service through undertaking a range of housekeeping duties

What you'll bring

• Tertiary qualifications (minimum Certificate III) in Mental Health, Peer Work, or other health related field as designated by Mind


• Experience and expertise in working directly with people with psychosocial issues, complex needs and with their families and carers


• Experience in assessing need and working collaboratively to plan goal focused recovery using evidence informed approaches and tools to meet participants' needs.


• Awareness and understanding of the NDIS is required


• Current NDIS Worker Screening Check Clearance and WWCC


• Unrestricted Australian driver's license, and ability to utilise personal vehicle to transport residents as required


• Current First Aid and CPR certifications and ability to perform these duties as required as part of the role

Relevant Experience Welcome

Don't meet every criteria? If you're currently working towards a relevant qualification or bring experience from a related field such as emergency services, aged care, disability support, education support, policing, community services, health or other people-focused roles, we encourage you to apply. Transferable skills and a genuine commitment to supporting people living with psychosocial disability are highly valued.

Benefits

• Salary packaging up to $15,899 p.a. allows you to allocate a portion of your pre-tax income to cover living expenses (e.g. rent, mortgage, child care, car leasing expenses etc.)


• Access to our Employee Assistance Program (EAP), provided by Converge International, for you and your immediate family members.


• Fitness Passport - Access to our corporate health and fitness program, providing you and family with access to a wide choice of fitness facilities.


• Professional development through regular Practice Development sessions and coaching with your supervisor


• Access to a Workplace Banking Portal that provides convenient access to a range of banking and lifestyle benefits offered through our CommBank program.

Position Description

PD Psychosocial Disability Support Worker (Housing Services).pdf

Mind strongly encourages applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, people with a lived experience of mental ill health and recovery, and applicants from all cultures, genders, sexualities, bodies, abilities, spiritualities, ages and backgrounds.

Mind Australia in the Bass Coast region is seeking resourceful Psychosocial Disability Support Workers for permanent part-time roles in Wonthaggi. You will deliver personalised support services and work with participants to support recovery and daily living skills.

The role involves one-to-one support, group workshops and developing group programs, along with coordinating with families and carers to strengthen connections and community participation.

Mind Australia is seeking a compassionate Lead Practitioner - Family Engagement to join the Adult Step-Up Step-Down service in Bundaberg on a fixed-term, part-time basis (32 hours/week) until 31 December 2027. You will provide practice leadership, coach practitioners and ensure families are engaged in recovery planning and referrals.

You will work with clinical and community partners to support recovery outcomes and staff development, while maintaining high-quality, recovery-oriented

Mind Australia Limited is seeking a compassionate Lead Practitioner to base around the Sale/Traralgon area in Gippsland for a Fixed Term, Full Time role until June 2027. You will provide practice leadership and coach a team to deliver assertive person-centred outreach services to help clients achieve recovery goals, build capacity and living skills, and strengthen community connections.

The role requires travel and includes a fully maintained company car for business use.

Mind strongly encourages applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, people with a lived and living experience of mental distress and recovery, and applicants from all cultures, genders, sexualities, bodies, abilities, spiritualities, ages and backgrounds.

Mind Australia is one of Australia's largest providers of community-managed psychosocial services, supporting people experiencing mental health and wellbeing challenges to find help, hope and purpose in their lives. Operating for more than 45 years and employing more than 1,300 staff around Australia, Mind is a leading employer of people with lived experience of mental health challenges, recognising their unique ability to connect with and motivate clients and guide recovery.

The Early Intervention Psychological Support Response Service (EIPSRS) provides a person-centered approach to recovery which is tailored to meet the needs of people living with mental ill health in the community. EIPSRS provides an individualised, tiered program of recovery support of up to 12 months delivered to clients with the level of engagement determined by their needs, services include individual support, one-on-one outreach services and group work. The services are designed to enhance recovery, achieve wellbeing goals, build capacity and life skills, maintain sustainable housing, improve relationships with families and carers, develop social and community connections, and live safely and independently in the community.

We are seeking a compassionate, experienced Lead Practitioner to be based around the Sale / Traralgon area of Gippsland for a Fixed Term, Full Time opportunity until June 2027. You will provide practice leadership and coach a team to deliver assertive person-centred outreach services to help clients achieve recovery goals, build capacity and living skills, strengthen social and community connections, maintain housing and live independently. As this position requires travel a fully maintained company car is provided for business use.

• Coach and mentor a team to deliver high quality outreach services and facilitate positive educational and social experiences.
• Work with clients to enable them to develop independent living skills and a meaningful life by supporting them through a strength-focused, staged approach to recovery using agreed practice techniques and approaches.
• Promote systemic change by identifying opportunities for service system improvement from individual client work and strengthening community partnerships to encourage innovative and collective solutions.
• Participate in building a strong team that is built on inclusiveness and respectfulness operating with a high level of professional management in a complex and demanding environment.
• Build and maintain relationships with external stakeholders including opinion leaders, community groups, diverse communities, service providers, partners, government agencies, referral sources and other organisations relevant to the work.
• Make linkages and build relationships and referral pathways to maintain or create a range of local supports for clients that facilitate them living the life of their choosing in their own community.

• Tertiary qualifications (minimum Certificate IV) in Mental Health, Peer Work, Psychology, Social Work, Occupational Therapy or other health related field as designated by Mind.

• Experience and expertise in working directly with people with mental health issues, complex needs and with their families and carers.
• Proven experience in Community Services, Mental Health, Disability, Social Welfare, Housing, Healthcare or Government sectors is required.
• Demonstrated knowledge and experience in the application of theoretical approaches, practices and appropriate service responses including family inclusive practice, trauma informed theory, cognitive behavioural therapy, motivational interviewing and harm reduction therapy.
• Proven capability to coach, mentor and develop a team to achieve best quality service outcomes including experience in the provision of professional supervision.

• Salary packaging up to $15,899 p.a. allows you to allocate a portion of your pre-tax income to cover living expenses (e.g. rent, mortgage, childcare, car leasing expenses etc.)
• Option to access Meal and Entertainment allowance up to $2,650 p.a. via Salary Packaging.
• Generous leave entitlements including 8 weeks paid parental leave, 17.5% annual leave loading, and Monthly Accumulated Day off (Full time employees).
• Fitness Passport - Access to our corporate health and fitness program, providing you and family with access to a wide choice of fitness facilities.
• Learning, development and career opportunities.

Steve Hampton, Service Manager - EIPSRS Regional

PD Lead Practitioner (EIPSRS) .pdf

The successful applicant is required to complete comprehensive reference and background checking prior to employment, including a Working with Children Check, NDIS Workers Screening Check.

We are committed to making reasonable adjustments to provide a positive, barrier-free recruitment process. If you require any support or reasonable adjustments to complete your application, please contact us at