Intake Assessment Worker

“We support individuals living with mental health challenges to achieve outcomes they value.”

**About the Role**
- Full time, Maximum Term Contract until May 2024
- Classification: Consumer Service Delivery Level 3 with a salary range of $82,123- $88,367 per annum + Superannuation
- Salary Packaging arrangements providing tax benefits available for living and entertainment expenses increasing your take home income where part of your wage is paid tax free each pay, savings thousands in tax each year
- Location: Burswood, W.A

**About Neami National**

Neami National is a community mental health service supporting people living with mental illness to improve their health, live independently and pursue a life based on their own strengths, values and goals.

We have been providing mental health support for over 30 years. We were founded on an alliance between professionals, individuals and their families. Collaborative recovery remains at the heart of who we are today.

**About your new role**

The NDIS Access project team workers assist participants to test their eligibility to access the NDIS. The project is a time limited initiative which will assist hard to engage people with severe mental illness and substantial, enduring psychosocial disability who meet the disability, age and residency requirements of the NDIS to collect and collate the evidence they need to make an NDIS access request. This project is an initiative of the WA Mental Health Commission and will be delivered by the WA- Community Services team until May 2024.

The NDIS Access project team workers will assess the need for supports such as intensive specialist mental health screening and perform risk assessments, including arranging referrals to crisis intervention services, where necessary. They will carry out assessment of the needs of the individual and provide the individual with the necessary information of the sorts of services available to support their identified needs and the possible waiting times for services and support programs.

The NDIS Access project team works as part of a collaborative team approach, supported by regular opportunities to reflect upon their practice and access comprehensive training and development.

**What will Neami offer in return?**
- Generous leave entitlements including paid parental leave, an Accrued Day Off each month, Gratis Leave and Wellness leave
- Professional development through regular Practice Development sessions and coaching with your supervisor
- Ongoing extensive in-house Learning and Development Programs to encourage learning and skill-building
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP) through Benestar - access a holistic health and wellness offering of supports and resources to Neami staff and their immediate family
- Work flexibility arrangements available for maintaining your work-life balance

**What you will bring to the role?**
- A valid and current Australian Driver’s license
- A valid and current Working With Children Check
- Uphold ethical behaviour, consistent with the values of honesty, fairness, responsibility and hope
- Demonstrate integrity, credibility and foster open communication
- Positively listens and consults with others to proactively address conflict
- Demonstrates an interest and understanding of others and relates well to people at all levels
- Demonstrates self-awareness and ability to reflect and handle feedback well and learn from it
- Proven ability to work autonomously with mínimal supervision and to prioritise multiple tasks to meet conflicting deadlines.
- Proven ability to maintain confidentiality and build trust to deal with sensitive and difficult situations in a diplomatic manner
- Ability to work productively in a fast paced, changing and agile environment
- Ability to establish respectful professional relationships that have clear boundaries with consumers, staff and partner organisations
- Ability to adapt communication style to meet the needs of a diverse range of people, and identifies changing needs within a group

**What the role requires**:

- National Criminal History Check (Police check) - disclosable outcomes considered
- Current Working with Children Check required before commencement of work
- Current Drivers licence
- Australian Working Rights

**How to apply**:
The terms and conditions of the role are listed in the position description. If you have any further questions not addressed in the advertising words or position description, please contact:
**Rajeev Ranjan, W.A Regional Manager

**Applications Close**: 14 August 2023

**Be Yourself** - Neami values and celebrates diversity including multidisciplinary teams and the unique backgrounds, experiences, and contributions that each person brings to our community. First Nations people, those identifying as LGBTQIA+, people with disabilities and culturally and linguistically diverse people are encouraged to apply. Our aim is to create a workforce that is accessible, inclusive and reflects