• Community Engagement Worker - EN (Medication Endorsed)
• Newly created, Full Time role available, Monday - Friday
• Northern Area Mental Health Service (NAMHS) – Noogal Clinic (Mill Park)/ formerly Community Team North (Epping)

Life With Us: 

If you enjoy working with people and their families during some of the most stressful periods of their lives to make a difference, then this job is for you.

And one more thing - you don’t have to pay exorbitant car parking fees.

Who are we? - The Northern Area Mental Health Service (NAMHS) provides a comprehensive range of specialist mental health services to people who reside in the local government areas of Darebin and Whittlesea.

Clinical Programs provided by the NAMHS include:

• Adult Community Services (2 Community Teams).
• Adult Acute Inpatient Service (50 beds)
• EMH (including PACER) and Consultation and Liaison Psychiatry Service at the Northern Hospital
• Community Care Unit
• Prevention and Recovery Care Service (PARC)

NAMHS Noogal Clinic has recently received funding for a Community Engagement Worker to be embedded in our existing community-based team. This new function will benefit from an experienced medication endorsed enrolled nurse keen to utilise their consumer engagement skills.

A Job To Be Proud Of:

• Provide recovery oriented assessment and interventions in collaboration with consumers/ carers/families
• Work collaboratively with consumers, families, carers and other service providers including GP’s and NDIS service providers
• Provide discipline specific evidence based practice and appropriate treatment options as required
• Participate in discipline specific clinical supervision and workload management. This will include attendance and participation at clinical review and other reflective spaces
• Participate in ongoing professional development activities and in-service training and sharing new found knowledge with the clinical team

Your Contribution:

• Some experience in the assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of severe mental illness and psychiatric disability
• An understanding of alcohol and other drug screening, assessment, treatment planning, brief interventions with clients who have co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders
• Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to communicate effectively with consumers, families/carers
• Ability to work with consumers, family and carers from a range of cultural backgrounds, and to provide gender sensitive services
• Work collaboratively with nursing, medical and allied health clinicians to assist consumers to navigate and engage with the service

Our Commitment to You:

• Values based organisation offering great prospects for career diversity and professional advancement, including training and research opportunities, and access to mentorship and leadership programs
• NorthWestern Mental Health boasts a sophisticated learning structure and we pride ourselves on supporting continuing professional development
• Comprehensive Health & Wellbeing Programs including; On-site staff gym, Staff Medical Service, Employee Assistance Program, Peer Support Program - run by our dedicated employees
• Salary packaging options, monthly ADOs (That’s an additional day off every month!), onsite car parking, close to public transport

Connect With Us:

Get to know us at www.nwmh.org.au or click ‘Apply Now’.

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All appointments are made subject to a satisfactory Criminal History Record Check and a Working With Children Check. Successful applicants will be required to provide evidence of an immunisation assessment prior to commencement.