Overview
Mental Health/SEWB - Alice Springs, NT
Join an award-winning team delivering an innovative, community-led program with the Northern Territory's largest Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Service.
* Base Salary: $69,868- $75,699 (p.a.)
* Total Effective Package: $88,678 - $95,268 (p.a.)*
* Full Time, Continuous Contract
* Aboriginal Identified Position
About the role
The Community Wellbeing Support Worker supports the delivery of SEWB services, including promoting service linkages, bicultural pairing with other SEWB workers, healthcare advocacy, supporting clients to attend SEWB appointments, and providing client follow-ups. This position does not involve individual client case management.
As part of this role, you will be supported to complete a Certificate III in Allied Health, Alcohol and Other Drugs, Community Services, Mental Health, or equivalent. You will be supported to complete your studies during work hours.
Benefits
* Work that is community-led, impact-focused and a part of a bigger picture.
* Competitive salaries.
* Opportunities to grow, including 15 days of professional development per year, with pathways including master's programs and study placements.
* Six weeks annual leave & 15 days paid personal leave per year.
* Flexible conditions such as flexible start and finish times, compressed work weeks, part-time and casual roles, job sharing and the possibility to purchase additional paid leave.
* Generous salary packaging for full-time, part-time and casual employees.
* Access to the Congress health services for you and your immediate family at no cost.
* Relocation assistance (where applicable).
* District allowance.
To be considered for this position
* Be of Aboriginal descent; identify as an Aboriginal person; and accepted as an Aboriginal person by the Aboriginal community.
* Effective communication and interpersonal skills and be willing to discuss and demonstrate your own knowledge and skills with work colleagues.
* An interest in Aboriginal health and primary health care and provision of assistance and care to others in the community.
* To understand and maintain strict confidentiality in a health care setting as well as cultural sensitivity within the Aboriginal community.
* Computer literacy with the ability to enter information into health databases such as a patient information system.
* A current and unrestricted NT Drivers Licence.
* A willingness to work towards a Certificate III in Allied Health, Alcohol and Other Drugs, Mental Health, or equivalent.
For more information on the position please contact Kathy Janse Van Nieuwenhuizen, Aboriginal Practice Manager - Social and Emotional Wellbeing, on M: 0438 951 736 | E: kathy.jvn@caac.org.au
*Total effective package includes: base salary, district allowance, superannuation, leave loading, and estimated tax saving from salary packaging options.
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Advertised until a suitable applicant is found. Only shortlisted applicants will be contacted.
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