Community Engagement Worker

**Enterprise Agreement / Classification**
- Individual Contracts - VARIOUS - XXXX
- Individual Contracts - VARIOUS - XXXX

**Hours per Fortnight**

**Position Summary**

**Work in an environment that offers**:

- A supportive environment for career progression and development
- An opportunity to further your career
- A strong attitude to teaching and supportive staff

**The Position**

**Position Title**: Community Mental Health Engagement Worker
- **Classification**: NP11, PE11, YB13, YC35
- **Salary per hour (exc. super)**: Dependant on classification
- **Hours per fortnight**: 80
- **Employment Status**: Fixed Full-Time
- **Other requirements**: COVID-19 Vaccination**Role Description**
- The CMHEW will proactively engage with patients (and their families and carers if applicable) to support their connection with the mental health service and navigation of the complex mental health, general health and social services systems.

**Bendigo Health**
- Our 700 bed state of the art hospital was built in 2017. We are a leader in regional health care, combining outstanding services with a strong education, training and personal development culture. We have all of the latest technologies allowing our 5000 staff to deliver
- _Excellent Care to Every Person, Every Time._ Remuneration is in accordance with Victorian Public Health Enterprise Agreements and generous salary packaging arrangements are offered to all staff. Bendigo Health offer:

- Flexible Working Arrangements
- Retention bonus of up to 2k annually for workers in Mental Health
- Salary Packaging
- Financial relocation support available for eligible applicants
- Reimbursements for the cost of obtaining any required pre-employment checks (Police Check, WWCC and/or NDIS Worker Screening Check)
- Staff health and wellbeing programs
- Access to recommended immunisations
- Smoke free environment
- If successful for a position at Bendigo Health you must provide evidence of your full immunisation record as part of the on boarding process.

**The Team**
- The Mental Health Service provides psychiatric care and treatment across a large catchment area in Victoria stretching from Swan Hill in the north of the state to Gisborne in the south. Family sensitive practice is central to our models of mental health care and best practice ensures the identification, inclusion and support of families, carers and children.

**Bendigo Region**
- Bendigo is one of Victoria’s fastest growing regional cities making it a great city to live and work in. Bendigo provides services for the region’s population of over 300,000 and so the city offers excellent schools, shopping and cultural precincts, sporting facilities and various tertiary facilities. We can offer generous flexible working arrangements - giving you more time to enjoy the fantastic restaurants, beautiful parks, walking trails and wineries within our region.

**Diversity and Inclusion**
- Bendigo Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We embrace diversity and social inclusion and encourage people from a diverse cultural background, people with disabilities and or Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander people to apply.

**Selection Criteria**
- Essential : Recently graduated health practitioner in nursing (Registered or Enrolled), Social Work or Occupational Therapy.
- Essential : An understanding of the range of issues experienced by people experiencing mental illness. presenting with high level needs, and a commitment to helping meet the needs of patients and families/carers.
- Essential : Computer literacy, including knowledge of the Microsoft suite office programs and the internet.
- Essential : Strong interest in mental health and well-being and a desire for a career within the mental health sector.
- Essential : Ability to work as a team member and contribute to team decisions, as well as the willingness to take advice and direction.
- Essential : A high level of administrative, logistic, schedule management, organisational, clinical documentation and time management skills
- Essential : Well-developed interpersonal skills, including capacity to engage with and hold sensitive discussions with patients, family/carers and health professionals.