Cultural Mental Health and Aod Worker

3 weeks ago

Salisbury, Australia Lives Lived Well Full time

Lives Lived Well provides support for people in Queensland and New South Wales who are being impacted by alcohol or drugs or problems with mental health, and now we’re expanding our services to **South Australia **

This newly established service will provide person-centred and whole of person, accessible and integrated primary mental health care, and suicide prevention services along a stepped care continuum to underserviced and at-risk groups in the Northern Adelaide PHN Region.

We are committed to celebrating the history, culture, and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. We offer **ceremonial and **NAIDOC leave **and have established a **support network for our First Nations **staff **, to build relationships, share knowledge and debrief.

**Your opportunity**

This position will provide Alcohol and Other Drug support services, including the delivery of culturally appropriate support for First Nations people, CALD and LQBTQI+ clients; provide warm referrals to culturally appropriate services and to provide specialist advise to management and staff on specific cultural and management issues.

If you share our belief that with the right support, people can change their lives, think in a curious and critical way, and thrive on learning and change, join us and do your best work here

This is a part time position working 19 hours per week, and the base salary range is $67,263.04 - $72,124.00 (pro rata) commensurate with experience and qualifications plus salary packaging, superannuation, leave loading (17.5%), and 5 additional days of paid wellbeing leave (pro rata for part timers).

**Responsibilities will also include, but not limited to**:

- Engage with families, stakeholders and appropriate agencies to develop a strong support network in the community.
- Work with each client’s strengths to ensure their reconnection to country.
- Provide advice and coaching to the team in the provision of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander focused services and community engagement
- Provide advice and support the continuity of positive and supportive relationships within the service from a cultural perspective.
- Support clients to complete activities in their treatment plan to complement existing clinical support
- Assist Clinicians to provide tailored, individual support for clients.
- Work in partnership with Clinicians to develop and deliver culturally appropriate groups and programs.
- Source and share culturally safe strategies, resources and information that could be helpful to a client’s recovery and wellbeing.
- Support clients to access feedback mechanisms to provide complaints, compliments, and suggestions to the service.
- Provide advocacy, supporting clients to feel safe and to have their needs and preferences heard.
- Represent clients in wider consultations, committees, and meetings.
- Source and share culturally safe strategies, resources and information that could be helpful to a client’s recovery and wellbeing.

**What you’ll bring**

**To succeed in this role, there are some essentials you’ll need**:

- Identified position - must be of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander background
- Certificate 3 in one of the following areas:

- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Primary Health Care
- Population Health
- Community Health Services and/or
- equivalent qualification
- Experience in working with families and children (0-11yo) with complex mental health needs
- Experience in supporting First Nations communities
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills
- Demonstrated ability to problem solve and negotiate practical outcomes
- Excellent organisational and time management skills with the ability to proactively prioritise, multi-task and work flexibly.

**While not essential, we’d also love you to have**:

- Local knowledge of services
- Previous experience working in family and or mental health services

**What matters most is that you’ll live and breathe our values, which means**:

- You are humble, human and full of hope.
- You show up and share.
- You ask: Why not? And what’s next?
- You leave a positive wake.

Why? We believe that through these values, we do our best work - for each other, for clients, and for the communities we work in. And it’s a promise we make to you about the kind of experience you will have working for us.

**Why work for Lives Lived Well?**

Well, it’s about people, purpose, impact and growth.

You’ll love working with talented people who share our values. Our services and treatments are as diverse as the communities we work in. We’ve grown significantly in the past few years, with no plans of slowing down.

So, what does that mean for you? A real opportunity to go further
- You’ll grow as a person and as a professional, extending your knowledge and skills beyond the norm.
- You’ll be trusted with autonomy in a supportive, respectful environment.
- You’ll make a lasting impact - on clients, the comm

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