Fapmi Coordinator

Location: Melbourne | Northern Metropolitan

Job type: Full time, Part time

Organisation: Austin Health

**Salary**: Salary not specified

Occupation: Health and Allied Health, Nursing

Reference: 50075
- Full or Part-time position
- Located in our recently acquired Mental Health Community Clinic

Austin Health is the major provider of tertiary health services, health professional education and research across three campuses in the north-east of Melbourne and state-wide. We have a highly engaged, diverse and collaborative workforce that is unified by our purpose, which is to help people live healthy and fulfilled lives.

**The Mental Health Division **at Austin Health provides care and services through a comprehensive range of teams to meet the needs of mental health consumers and carers, primarily within the local council areas of Banyule and Nillumbik. Our services work within a clinical framework that promotes recovery, supported decision making, collaborative, and strengths based. Our philosphy of care encompasses the principles of self-determination and individualised treatment and care.**

**About the role**

The **FaPMI (Families where a Parent has a Mental Illness) Coordinator** is a senior member of the Adult Mental Health Service clinical team who works to build capacity of the services to respond effectively to the consumer and their families through workforce training, policy and procedure development, community education, stakeholder engagement, and working alongside clinicians.

A regular day will see you:

- Working with young people who have parents with a mental illness
- Advocating for consumers and their families and organisational leadership meetings
- Working alongside clinicians to enhance their service responses to consumers and their families.

**About you**

To be successful in this role you'll bring with you:

- An excellent understanding of the principles of recovery orientated practices and its implementation within a clinical setting.
- Be able to develop rapport with parents who have a mental illness and their family.
- Can effectively communicate with a variety of stakeholders.
- Is a leader.
- Enjoys working with people.

**Our benefits**

Working at Austin Health means enjoying a strong sense of purpose, engaging in meaningful work every day. Our people also receive a variety of rewarding benefits, including:

- $11,660 in salary packaging benefits, for living expenses, meals and holiday accommodation
- A suite of wellness initiatives designed to support you, including discounted fitness memberships and special offers on health insurance, and a comprehensive wellbeing program
- Mentoring, learning and career development opportunities
- Five weeks annual leave, plus purchased leave options
- Flexible, hybrid working arrangements

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