Make a lasting difference in the lives of people experiencing mental health challenges. As a Support Coordinator with Stronger Ground, you'll empower individuals to achieve their recovery goals, strengthen their wellbeing and build meaningful connections within their communities.
This full-time, 12-month opportunity offers the chance to join a passionate multidisciplinary team delivering trauma-informed, recovery-focused support across Perth. If you're looking for a rewarding role where you can see the impact of your work every day while helping people build independence, confidence and hope for the future, we'd love to hear from you.
Ruah is a leading values-driven employer in Western Australia’s community services sector. Our staff go boldly, not just supporting people in need, but working to end homelessness, end domestic violence and create opportunities for people struggling with poverty and mental health challenges.
Our professional team of operational and corporate services staff is backed by one of WA’s biggest Peer support workforces. Our staff reflect our commitment to diversity and inclusion, where difference is valued, celebrated and embraced.
As a Support Coordinator with Stronger Ground, you'll provide psychosocial support to people experiencing complex mental health challenges across the Perth metropolitan area.
Working alongside Peer Recovery Workers, Support Workers and external service providers, you'll help people achieve their goals, strengthen their wellbeing and connect with the services and communities that support their recovery.
Key responsibilities include:
This outreach-based role requires regular travel across the Perth metropolitan area to meet clients in community settings and a collaborative, person-centred approach to supporting people with complex needs.
The role is a full-time, 12-month Maximum-Term Contract, working 38 hours per week, Monday to Friday, generally between 8:00am and 5:00pm, with occasional weekend and public holiday work by arrangement.
The successful applicant will be required to meet the following criteria:
We'd love to hear from you!
Please click Apply, create your LiveHire profile, and submit your current resume together with a cover letter of no more than two pages outlining your suitability for the role.
Closing date for applications: 5pm, COB Friday 30 October 2026.
For further information please contact Sheila Jay, Team Lead for Stronger Ground Central, on sheila.jay@ruah.org.au
We are building a workplace where difference is embraced and encouraged - and to do this, we need people on our team who are representative of the clients we work with, who are passionate about change and courageous enough to stand up for what is right.
Everyone is welcome. Everyone belongs.
The Royal Children's Hospital (RCH) has been providing outstanding care for Victoria's children and their families for over 147 years.
We are the major specialist paediatric hospital in Victoria and our care extends to children from Tasmania, southern New South Wales and other states around Australia and overseas.
With a passionate, highly skilled and committed staff campus wide of over 5,000, we provide a full range of clinical services, tertiary care and health promotion and prevention programs for children and young people.
We are the designated state-wide major trauma centre for paediatrics in Victoria and a Nationally Funded Centre for cardiac and liver transplantation.
When it comes to training and research we partner with the very best. Our campus partners, the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute (MCRI) and The University of Melbourne Department of Paediatrics, along with the RCH Foundation, are on site with the hospital in Parkville. Together, we are committed to improving the health outcomes for children today and in the future.
In 2016–17, more than 85,654 children attended our Emergency Department, 322,291 specialist clinic appointments were held which was almost 70,000 more than the previous year, more than 17,000 surgeries were performed and more than 48,552 children were admitted to our wards.
