Employment and Education Specialist

5 days ago

Sunshine, Australia Orygen, The National Centre of Excellence in Youth Mental Health Full time

Primary Clinical Services Sunshine, VIC Contract

9/4/2025
- Sunshine location | Personal car included
- Full time contract until June 2027 | 1.0 FTE
- Access to NFP salary packaging | Join a multidisciplinary team

About Orygen

Orygen is Australia’s Centre of Excellence in Youth Mental Health and the largest translational research organisation dedicated to youth mental health in the world.

For over 30 years, Orygen has led groundbreaking early intervention and developed evidence-based models of care to improve the mental health outcomes of young people aged 12-25.

About the job

The Employment and Education Specialist will deliver high-quality support through our Individual Placement and Support (IPS) Program at headspace Sunshine. In this impactful role, you’ll work directly with young people experiencing mental ill-health to help them find meaningful employment and career pathways.

You’ll deliver tailored career support across Orygen’s clinical programs, focusing on individual career development, skill-building, and job readiness. Your responsibilities will include:

- Provide career coaching and support to young people, enabling them to reach their employment and educational goals.
- Promote the IPS program to prospective employers, young people, and community member and developing partnerships with employers and educational institutions to expand opportunities for young people.
- Use digital tools to assist in career exploration, skill-building, and linking mental health with career development.
- Conduct training workshops for clinical staff and community organisations on vocational recovery.
- Support young people to attend external service provider appointments when necessary.

Skills and experience

You are passionate, energetic and determined to make a difference to health and wellbeing outcomes for young people. The following criteria must be met for consideration for this position:

- Tertiary qualifications in disability, health, human resources or related field.
- Knowledge and understanding of the Individual Placement and Support (IPS) model.
- Proven experience in employment services, vocational rehabilitation, or career development.
- Strong familiarity with employment services, Centrelink, and other programs impacting young people’s employment opportunities.
- Skilled in providing career-planning advice and navigating challenges faced by young people in employment and education.
- Effective communicator with advanced computer skills, accuracy, and attention to detail.

**Benefits**:

- Salary between $85,126 - $91,587 pro rata commensurate with skills and experience + 11.5% super + 15,900 NFP salary packaging + $2,600 meals and entertainment card & personal use car.
- Access to free training for the IPS micro-credential training program.
- Free monthly supervision through the Professional Support Program.
- You’ll support young people experiencing mental ill-health to achieve their work or study goals.
- You won’t be stuck at a desk You’ll be out and about in your community, assisting young people to meet employers and education providers
- You’ll spend time building networks with a wide range of stakeholders, including employers, educators, young people and their supporters.
- IPS work involves a diverse range of daily tasks, such as: defining career goals, liaising with clinicians, and working with employers and education providers,

How to apply

This is a full-time contract until 30 June 2027.

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