Community Mental Health Worker

24 hours ago

Greater Adelaide SA, Australia Skylight Mental Health Full time

**Community Mental Health Worker - Carer Services program**:
Apr 17, 2025

**Closes 9am Monday 5 May 2025**

SCHADS Level 4, 0.6 FTE

Based at Skylight Mile End and Christie’s Beach, servicing multiple areas of the South Australian metro region.

The Community Mental Health Worker will ideally have a lived experience of caring for someone who has/is experiencing mental health challenges. The Community Mental Health Worker will work closely with participants to promote recovery, inspire hope, and facilitate a process wherein participants can work toward goals that will improve their well-being.

The program provides short term 1:1 support and facilitates Carer Peer Groups within Metropolitan Adelaide.

The Community Mental Health Worker will:

- Support participants to identify their strengths
- Build resilience and increase capacity
- Assist carers to identify and achieve their personal goals
- Work closely with our partner Carers SA to provide best-practice service delivery
- Provide warm and informed referrals to external service providers such as mental health, housing, legal, and financial, to assist with improving carer wellbeing
- Connect carers with community
- Support carers to discover an improved quality of life
- Facilitate Peer Groups and organise activities and outings that improve carer mental health and wellbeing
- Support carers to navigate complex service pathways, empowering them to advocate for their needs within the broader social services and health systems, including both non-government and government organisations and programs.

**Requirements for Success**:

- Qualifications or experience relevant to mental health
- Lived Experience in a mental health-related caring role will be highly regarded
- Sound knowledge and awareness of mental health challenges
- Capacity to work both autonomously and within teams
- Experience with person centred and recovery oriented frameworks
- Proficient knowledge of Microsoft programs and relevant software
- Full Driver’s License and ability to work across sites
- Some out-of-hours work may be required.

**Applications**:

- Describe briefly your understanding of what is needed to support carers who may have mental health challenges due to their caring roles.
- Please describe an experience where you have needed to communicate professional boundaries in a respectful and supportive manner.
- The Carer Services program is a short, time-limited program. Please describe your understanding of capacity building, and how would you engage with and support someone to meet their goals within timeframes.

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