Psychosocial Recovery Coach

Would you like to work in a supportive team environment with great employee benefits and professional development opportunities? Become a Psychosocial Recovery Coach with the Recovery Plus Support team

**About us**

At Recovery Plus Support, we are the pioneers of Recovery Coaching. Through engagement and promoting ongoing recovery, we support individuals on the NDIS with psychosocial disabilities to increase their capacity to help them live a fulfilled and self-sufficient life.

Our Recovery Coaches help our participants to accomplish their goals by linking them with mainstream or community services, increasing their recovery skills and improving their motivation, strengths, resilience, and decision making.

**About you**

Due to exponential growth within our organisation, we have several vacancies in various suburbs across Australia. If you are energetic, passionate, highly committed and are ready to take the next step in your mental health career, we want you as part of our team

You will be committed to providing exceptional support aligning with our company values while demonstrating excellent communication skills with all stakeholders involved.

You will draw upon your professional skills and demonstrate empathy, humanity and care to support our participants with their journey towards recovery and leading a self-sufficient and fulfilling life.

It will be highly regarded if you have lived or professional experience in the mental health field.

**About the opportunity**

The Psychosocial Recovery Coach’s objective is to develop a recovery-enabling relationship to support participants with their recovery planning.

Your role will involve coaching the participant to increase their recovery skills through strengthening their personal capacity to coordinate their supports, assisting them decision making to take to achieve their goals and building their emotional resilience.

You will self-direct and manage their supports through recovery planning while also being responsible for linking them to mainstream or community services (i.e., housing, education, transport, health) and broader systems of support.

The position of a Psychosocial Recovery Coach involves outreach work, wherein you will engage in one-on-one support with participants at their place of residence, and subsequently facilitate any necessary administrative tasks from your own home.

This will be achieved by
- Supporting the participant to select their preferred options or providers
- Conducting any assessments that correlate with their support plan (e.g., biopsychosocial assessment)
- Liaising with allied health and NDIS funded providers/stakeholders as including addressing any service issues, complaints and major changes to the participants support
- Researching local providers for activities of their choice

You will also be required to monitor the participant’s NDIS budget and funding as well as supporting and assisting them with preparing for plan reviews

**Key selection criteria**

To be successful in this role, you will need:

- A Certificate IV in Mental Health or a Bachelor’sDegree in Psychology/related field (includes currently studying) and/or 1 years’experience in the mental health sector or related field
- Availability for a minimum of 3 days per week
- Minimum probationary driver’s license and fully comprehensive car insurance (business cover)
- Evidence of COVID booster vaccination or valid medical exemption

You will also be able to demonstrate:

- The ability to manage an individual case load and perform tasks autonomously
- Organisation of your timetable/roster to meet specific deadlines
- Completion of progress reports as per NDIS requirements
- The ability to write clear and concise comprehensive case notes

You must also hold/be willing to obtain for the following:

- NDIS Worker Screening Check
- Working with Children's Check
- First Aid and CPR Certificate
- COVID-19 Training and Infection Control Certificate
- NDIS Orientation Certificate

**What we offer**
- A flexible work environment with an emphasis on work life balance
- A welcoming work culture and supportive team at head office that will provide you with training, supervision and mentorship
- Opportunities for growth within the organisation
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Star of the Month Program

Our organisational values of empathy, respect, integrity, quality and reliability are what make Recovery Plus Support such a positive place to develop your career in the mental health sector. Join us today and be a part of a dedicated provider that strives to make a difference in the NDIS space

**Job Type**: Casual

**Salary**: From $42.55 per hour

**Benefits**:

- Travel reimbursement

Schedule:

- Afternoon shift
- Day shift
- Flexible hours
- Monday to Friday
- Morning shift
- Public holidays

Supplemental pay types:

- Penalty rates