Multiple Opportunities Available, SCHAD Level 2
At Skylight, we’re all about breaking barriers and building capacity. We’re a passionate team dedicated to supporting participants on their recovery journeys, and we’re looking for like-minded Mental Health Support Workers to join us. If you’re ready to make a real impact in people’s lives, read on!
About Skylight
Skylight offers a range of recovery-oriented community mental health services for people experiencing mental illness, family and friends who care for them, and the broader general South Australian community.
About the role
As a Skylight Support Worker, you will work alongside NDIS participants on their recovery journey as they work towards achieving their goals. Your role will be to support daily living tasks while building their capacity and independence as they connect with community, learn and explore to make space for new opportunities and to discover new potential.
We do this by working within recovery oriented, trauma informed and person-centred practices & provide support with the barriers experienced in their psychosocial wellbeing. This may look like supporting a participant to appointments, group activities and social outings, food shopping, medication pickups etc. We do not provide personal care
Covering the Limestone Coast region including Mount Gambier, Millicent and Naracoorte, we are currently seeking Support Workers with the skills and experience to work with participants who have complex needs and capable of providing individualised support to participants.
About you
Engagement - Do you engage easily with others?
Empathy - Is it natural for you to express empathy?
Recovery - Do you understand what recovery from mental illness means?
Relationships - Is building relationships easy for you?
Motivation – Can you help people discover their own motivation?
Emotional Intelligence - Is emotional intelligence important to you?
Self-Reflection - Do you use self-reflection to challenge yourself?
Requirements
• Certificate III Individual Support (Home and Community) and/or knowledge and skills gained through work experience commensurate with community mental health service
• Sound knowledge and awareness of mental illness (ideally psychosocial disability) and related comorbidities and the associated impact on individuals, carers and the community
• Flexible and open availability - minimum of 15 hours per week, able to pick up short notice supports if needed, willingness to travel to supports across the metro regions dependent on need
• Smartphone with internet capabilities
• Current SA Drivers Licence and willingness to use own vehicle
• DHS Working With Children Check and NDIS Worker Check
What We Offer:
• Competitive hourly and salary package options available
• Flexible working hours to fit your lifestyle
• A vibrant, supportive team culture focused on growth and innovation
TO APPLY
Click APPLY NOW and please submit your resume and cover letter. Alternatively, you can send your application to recruitment@skylight.org.au
Skylight Mental Health is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive workforce including people from all genders, ages, sexualities, cultures, and backgrounds. We strongly encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, culturally and linguistically diverse people and people with mental health lived experience.
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.
