General Hands

**Flourish Australia has multiple exciting opportunities for General Hands to join our Community Businesses team in Marrickville**:
About the positions:

- **Full-time (76 hours/fortnight)**:

- **Casual**:

- Working **Monday to Friday**:

- Based at our** Marrickville Prestige Packaging site**:

- **Attractive hourly rates **equivalent to SES Grade 3** $24.56/hr**

**About the Opportunities**:
A General Hand with Flourish Australia’s Community Businesses is required to work alongside supported employees and to act as a role model for people with diverse levels of skills and expertise. To achieve this, you will be required to ensure that efficient and quality work is carried out whilst also ensuring supported employee and business service satisfaction.

This is a hands-on and diverse role requiring you to complete a variety of work in areas relating to warehousing, grounds maintenance, general labouring, and courier services.

For more information about what it means to be a **General Hand **with Flourish Australia, please review the **Position Description**.**

**Who we are**:
Flourish Australia operates social enterprises and community businesses with the purpose of creating sustainable employment, vocational and training opportunities for people with mental health issues. We work in local communities to help people on their mental health recovery journey.

Our services are comprehensive and highly personalised because each person’s experience will be different and their needs, as an individual, are unique. Together we set goals, connect individuals with the right people, support services and opportunities to meet their needs.

**Aims of the Community Businesses**:

- **Social**: to create a recovery and reintegration pathway for people with mental health issues through various employment activities.
- **Economic**: to operate the business on a commercially sustainable basis of profitable growth whilst simultaneously offering employment opportunities for people.
- **Product**: to provide a range of commercial industry-standard products that meet the expectations and needs of targeted markets.
- **Support**: to increase awareness of mental health issues and to encourage businesses to support the Community Businesses.

**Selection Criteria**:

- Ability to work empathetically with persons with a mental health issues or psychosocial disability.
- Ability to work with mínimal supervision.
- Sound written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to motivate and assist team members.
- Green Card/White Card (where required).
- Current NSW manual drivers licence.
- Desirable:_
- A personal lived experience of a mental health issue.

**About the Benefits**:

- **Tax-Free Salary Packaging** available up to $15,900 (casuals ineligible)
- Generous leave provisions including **17.5% leave loading+ 2 additional days of personal leave+ extra day paid leave over Christmas/New Year + paid parental leave (casuals ineligible)**:

- Family-friendly and **flexible working conditions**:

- Opportunities for **professional development** and training such as Mental Health First Aid, ASIST and relevant Support Coordination training (where applicable)
- Regular **supervision**, ongoing 1:1 **mentoring**, strong **team support **and a **comprehensive induction** program
- Access to our** Employee Assistance Program** for free, confidential well-being support
- **Inclusive initiatives** such as our **Rainbow Network and YarnUp** for Aboriginal and Torres Strait islander staff
- Personal **fleet pricing discounts with our preferred automotive supplier**:

- **Employee discounts** at 400+ popular retailers (Woolworths, Expedia, Myer, Kmart etc.