Senior Mental Health Worker

Where excellence meets opportunity - discover your next chapter with cohealth

• Full time, ongoing role
• Work for a multi-award-winning iconic community health organisation
• Generous salary packaging options to reduce your cohealth taxable income

So why cohealth?

cohealth leads the way in reducing health and social inequity in partnership with people and the communities in which they live. Named Premier's Health Service of the Year (Primary) and the Supporting LGBTIQ+ Health Service at the Victorian Public Healthcare Awards, cohealth's 1000 staff demonstrate courage, leadership, innovation, and agility in their commitment to providing inclusive and culturally safe health services that protect the human rights of all people of all gender identities, sexualities, ages, cultural and linguistic backgrounds, faiths, and abilities.

Our inclusive workplace culture enables staff to bring their whole selves to work, where uniqueness is valued, and people experience a feeling of belonging. Our aim is for everyone to thrive in their role. Please click here to find out more.

About the role

The Senior Mental Health Worker is an integral part of the Forensic Mental Health in Community Health team. The Senior Mental Health Worker enhances the quality of ongoing support and care for eligible clients by working collaboratively with partners to provide comprehensive assessment, planning, and the implementation and coordination of client goal directed care plans. Working in partnership within a multidisciplinary team, the focus is on providing holistic and client centered care.

Please refer to the Position Description for more information.

Your duties include:

• Facilitate access to community resources and services
• Implement individual service plans for clients with appropriate follow-up care including review and referral to other agencies and GPs as required that support person centered care and recognize people's strengths within a community-based forensic framework
• Provide recovery-oriented services to clients. This includes identifying needs, aspirations and goals in the development and implementation of client-directed, strengths-based care plans
• Work within an internal and external team-based approach to assessment, ongoing care and treatment

What cohealth offers:

• Exciting Parental leave benefits
  • cohealth offers primary carers 14 weeks paid parental leave upon completion of only 6 months of continuous service
  • Eligible co-workers will continue to receive superannuation on unpaid parental leave as well
• Salary packaging to suit you - tax free amount of up to $15,900 p.a (mortgage, rent, or credit cards) and a further $2,650 p.a (meal, entertainment expenses and holiday accommodation) alongside generous reward programs from our salary packaging providers. Find out more on salary packaging here: https://www.ato.gov.au/Individuals/Jobs-and-employment-types/Working-as-an-employee/Salary-sacrificing-for-employees/
• Novated Leasing available
• Counselling services for you and your immediate family through our EAP-Access provider, and mindfulness, resilience, and wellbeing programs
• We offer inclusion, equality, and opportunity in a workplace where making a difference counts (based on our guiding principles and values)

Our ideal candidate:

• A tertiary qualification and/or significant relevant experience in mental health, justice, health, community services or equivalent
• Working with Children's Check (WWCC)
• Victorian Driver's License required
• Proof of qualification to be sighted

All appointments are made subject to a satisfactory Nationally Coordinated Criminal History Check (NCCHC), a Working With Children Check (WWCC), complete a Pre-Employment Declaration Form, evidence of legal rights to work in Australia, and evidence of vaccination.

Successful applicants will be required to provide evidence of immunisation assessment including Influenza within 12 weeks of commencement [B]. This is in accordance with the Victorian Minister of Health Mandatory Vaccination Orders and legislated requirement for influenza vaccination.

Application Process

Click on apply now to be directed to our careers page. You will be asked to upload your CV/ resume and Cover Letter as well as address the key selection criteria. We will be conducting interviews for this role as applications are received. This campaign will close on the mentioned date at 10.00 PM.

If you have any questions regarding this role, please contact Lee Brooks Lee.Brooks@cohealth.org.au