Aboriginal Mental Health Worker

**Job no**: 866574
**Work type**: Full time
**Location**: Adelaide Metro Northern
**Categories**: Community Services, Mental Health, Aboriginal Health
- **Northern Adelaide Local Health Network - Northern Mental Health - Salisbury**:

- **Salary**: $75,430 - $79,070 p.a. **- OPS4 - Ongoing Full-Time**

**About Us**:
The Northern Adelaide Local Health Network (NALHN) provides care for more than 400,000 people living in the northern metropolitan area of Adelaide and boasts newly redeveloped wards and Emergency and Outpatient Departments, with plans for the addition of more brand-new facilities in the near future. NALHN provides a full range of high-quality medical, surgical, maternity, diagnostic, emergency and support services. NALHN offers a range of primary health care services across the northern metropolitan area of Adelaide, with a focus on providing preventive and health promoting programs in the community, and transition and hospital substitution and avoidance programs targeted at chronic disease and frail aged.

With a workforce of almost 6,500 employees, NALHN works to ensure quality and timely delivery of health care, whilst building a highly skilled, engaged and resilient workforce based on a culture of collaboration, respect, integrity and accountability.

Our core values of respect, integrity and accountability underpin our commitment to provide excellence in care, innovation, creativity, leadership and equity in service provision and health outcomes to the Northern area communities.

At NALHN Everyone Has a Story, Everyone Matters, Everyone Contributes and Everyone Grows.

**Benefits of working at NALHN**:
From salary packaging to flexible working arrangements, a large range of opportunities for movement and career progression, you’ll find there are lots of benefits of working with Northern Adelaide Local Health Network.

Salary packaging is an option for saving money by paying for some of your everyday expenses from your salary before it is taxed.

Across SA Health there are always opportunities for you to develop your skills and career at any of our metropolitan or regional sites.

Relocation assistance may be available for successful applicants from interstate or overseas.

**About You**:
Are you dedicated, compassionate and enthusiastic looking for an opportunity to join a dynamic, growing healthcare network where you will be part of a supportive team delivering high quality care to the community? If so, then this could be the opportunity for you. This position will offer you professional growth opportunities within a supportive and inclusive culture.

In this role you will have strong interpersonal and communication skills which will enable you to successfully problem solve, resolve conflicts and negotiate, including the ability to engage in difficult conversations, whilst building and maintaining relationships. An ability to effectively manage multiple, diverse and competing priorities and demonstrated resilience within a stressful and complex environment is essential to this role.

**About the Role**:
An exciting opportunity is presented to work within the Northern Adelaide Local Health Network as an Aboriginal Mental Health Worker within the Northern Mental Health Cultural Healing Team.

As an Aboriginal Mental Health Worker, you will promote the mental health and wellbeing of the Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander communities by providing responsive mental health care services, programs and activities which are based on recovery principles, social justice and build Aboriginal knowledge.

Based across NALHN Mental Health Services, the role is responsible for the identification of social and emotional health needs as well as supporting clients to access appropriate services. The role involves working with mainstream services to maximise consumer’s self-management of mental wellbeing and empower Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander communities with the knowledge to address mental health care issues.

In this role, you will be responsible for the engagement of individuals, communities and groups in strategies that will empower Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander consumers and their families with the aim to prevent ill health. The role is responsible for delivering services by advocating for families who are at risk through provision of support and facilitation of care with a focus on educating and supporting mental health clinicians to provide culturally appropriate care.

Working across multi-disciplinary teams within NALHN Mental Health, you will assist in the ongoing review of practices, procedures and participate in data collection and analysis

The South Australian public sector promotes diversity and flexible ways of working including part-time. Applicants are encouraged to discuss the flexible working arrangements for this role.

**Check(s)**
- National Police Certificate (NPC) for employment involving unsupervised contact with vulnerable groups required for this position (E.g.