Mental Health Worker

2 weeks ago


Lismore, Australia Open Minds Full time

Open Minds Lismore team are looking for enthusiastic people wanting to work with people experiencing mental health difficulties in the temporary flood accommodation sites. You will work in conjunction with the NSW Health clinical team to provide much needed assistance to flood displaced people. The locations you will be working across include **Lismore, Maclean and Grafton.**

**Benefits for you**

We believe in creating a supportive and positive workplace culture that is dedicated to professional development of cohesive teams. This includes:

- Providing training and supervision in Motivational interviewing
- Fortnightly reflective practice
- Monthly 1 to 1 session
- Creating opportunities to work in complex environments with clients who have dual diagnoses
- Opportunity for longer-term role at the end of your contract
- Opportunity to salary package up to $15,900 of tax-free income
- Benefits scheme with ongoing discounts on regular and on off items
- This position is a SCHADS award level 4.4 ($42.24 per hour)

**How you will make a difference**
- By developing a shared understanding about your clients’ values and helping them take actions that are consistent with these
- Creating and develop relationships with clients, their family, your colleagues, and teams from other agencies
- Work with the people to promote self-resilience and independence
- Assist people to make connection with community and local resources
- Assist people to secure and maintain tenancies.

**What you need to get started**:

- Up to date COVID vaccination
- Police and Working with Children Check
- Current Drivers Licence
- Minimum Diploma in Mental Health or a related field
- Experience working with people with chronic, acute, and complex mental health conditions
- An open, curious, and self-reflective manner

**About Us**

The Open Minds purpose is to enable an independent and positive future for all people living with mental illness and acquired brain injury related disability. Open Minds is recognised as an innovative leading provider of mental health and disability support services.

Open Minds have over 500 employees across 35 locations and different service types. We offer interesting careers development for staff within our organisation. We are seeking passionate and talented individuals aligned to our values to help us deliver on our purpose.

**What happens next?**
- Open Minds acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia, and we pay our respects to Elders past, present, and emerging. We are committed to honouring Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and their unique cultural and spiritual relationship to land, water, and seas and their rich contribution to society._

**Open Minds is a registered NDIS provider. Our team works to enhance mental health and wellbeing by delivering tailored supports to people living with mental ill health, disability or acquired brain injury.



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