Mental Health Support Worker

8 hours ago

Chatswood, Australia Uniting Full time

Employment Type: Part - time close period until 24th December 2025
- Location: Chatswood
- Roster: Monday to Friday, ( 3 days per week )
- Classification: SCHADS Level 2 + Generous Salary Packaging Benefits

Role Overview
The Mental Health Support Worker - Family & Carer - is responsible for providing education, training, and individual support to families and carers of people with mental illness, aiming to improve their wellbeing, resilience, coping skills and relationships. Working within the recovery model and using a holistic, person-cantered approach, you will support the carer to achieve their goals and build capacity so they can support their loved one with a mental illness.
About Family Carer Mental Health Program
Family and Carer Mental Health Program, of Uniting - Recovery division, offers education, training and individual support services to families and Carers of those with mental illness, aiming to improve care well-being, resilience, coping skills and relationships.
Duties and responsibilities include but are not limited to
- Understanding of issues and concerns affecting mental health consumers with a working knowledge of and commitment to consumers rights and responsibilities.
- Experience providing individual advocacy for families and carers of people with mental illness.
- Ability to facilitate support groups for families and carers.
- Demonstrated ability to develop individual support plans with carers, with a focus on supporting the carer to reach their goals.
- Ability to provide individualised psychosocial support to people living with severe and persistent mental illness.

**Essential Criteria**:

- Certificate IV in Community Services, Mental Health, Youth Work, or equivalent and relevant to the field of work.
- Valid Driver’s Licence
- Access to own car

**What we offer**:

- Competitive salary and salary sacrificing options
- Access to our U rewards program with exclusive discounts.
- Access to Fitness Passport - Live your best life.
- Professional development and training opportunities
- A professional and friendly work environment
- An opportunity to promote hope and recovery in people’s lives.

Advert Closing - 11.55pm, Sunday 25th May
**About Uniting**: When you’re part of Uniting NSW.ACT, you’re part of a diverse, purpose-led team of people who are really making a difference to the world around them. We contribute to the work and mission of the Uniting Church in NSW and the ACT through social justice advocacy, community services and spiritual care. We provide care and support for people through all ages and stages of life, with a focus on people experiencing disadvantage and vulnerability. Our purpose is to inspire people, enliven communities and confront injustice.
Uniting leaders and employees work together to create a culture that is safe, inclusive and person-centred. We bring this to life every day through our values: compassionate, respectful, imaginative and bold.
Uniting acknowledges the continuing sovereignty and rich cultural diversity of Australia’s First Peoples. We pay our respects to all Elders - past, present, and emerging - and to all First Peoples on whose lands we live and work. Uniting is a Child Safe Organisation committed to promoting the safety, wellbeing and inclusion of children and young people.

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