Practice Advisor

Newly create role
- Support the team with your expertise whilst also maintaining a caseload
- Working with Mai Wel is full of possible

Mai-Wel is the regions leader in NDIS support and employment pathways for individuals in the disability and youth streams. With over 65 years serving our community this is an organisation with people at it's core and delivering for disadvantaged.

The role of **_Practice Advisor - Disability & Psychosocial_** is seated in the Employment Pathway of Mai Wel and will be key to providing expertise to the Employment Pathways team. Driving quality of service and maintaining a caseload.

The Role
- Recommend appropriate referral for identified barriers and clinical services,
- Work with individuals and support teams to develop and implement intervention according to needs,
- Collaborate and support teams to develop and implement evidenced based interventions,
- Work in a cross functional capacity across all sites and programs/ contracts,
- Support and mentor regional teams to optimise their performance,
- Provide expert advice on operations, guidelines, and standards, and
- Contribute to business growth and development opportunities.

The Person

Work to Mai-Wel's core values Respect, Integrity, and Excellence, & reflect the culture of our organisation. Our People are expected to commit, uphold, proactively role model, and support these as shared values.

You will need:

- Experience in human or social services including psychosocial case work and knowledge with a strong desire for your background to have experience in employment pathways
- Assess and understand the impacts of interventions for individuals with trauma within the employment pathways
- Specialist knowledge of disability employment services
- Experience regards disability and psychosocial disability relating to employment outcomes
- Ability to train, mentor & engage others
- Cert IV or above quals in Disability, Community Services, Mental Health or other relevant stream
- Bring a strong cultural awareness to the workforce
- Ability to analyse data, report and manage accordingly to drive effective operational improvements
- Skilled using MS Office suite
- Always have the participants at the heart of everything you do.

As part of the recruitment process you will need to be able to complete:

- 2 x working references
- Working rights for Australia
- National Criminal History Check
- NDIS Worker Screening
- Working With Children Check
- Drug and Alcohol pre-employment screen
- Australian Vaccination Certificate
- Current First Aid Certificate

Working with Mai Wel creates careers that are 'full of possible'

You will be rewarded with a salary and benefits that include the valuable Not for Profit salary sacrifice advantage

To be successfully shortlisted for this role you will need to present a cover letter that displays your motivation to work in a leadership role with Mai-Wel in the Employment pathways. You will also need to address the key points in the ad and you will need to showcase your skills via an effective resume.