Join our Alcohol and Other Drug Services Team.

• Support people in achieving their mental health and well-being goals.
• Increase your take-home pay with up to $15,900 in salary packaging benefits
• Part-time flex + family-friendly hours - 53.2 per fortnight to 30 June 2025.

About your new role

As the Mental Health Wellbeing Worker, you will provide an outcome-focused, time-limited mental health recovery modelled service delivery.

Through individual program planning, you will support consumer’s lifestyle choices and assist in developing skills and strategies to manage their mental health, access community resources, enhance their everyday living skills, and achieve their mental health and wellbeing goals.

Your role extends support across all Mental Health programs, catering to diverse age groups based on individual program requirements.

Benefits of working at Uniting

You’ll be joining a well-established, experienced team and the region's largest provider of Mental Health Services.

It’s a part-time role until 30 June 2025, involving 53.2 hours per fortnight. We can offer some flexibility about how the hours are worked; let us know what suits you, and we can see if we can make that work.

In addition to your base hourly rate (SCHADS Level 4) and superannuation, you’ll also receive 17.5% leave loading and the ability to increase your take-home pay by accessing up to $15,900 in salary packaging benefits, which can be used for living expenses such as groceries, bills, clothing, streaming services, and much more.

With our meal entertainment benefit of $2,650 annually, you can save on dining out and drinks, making the most of your pre-tax dollars. At Uniting, you can access the following:

• 10% discount on the childcare subsidy gap fee at a Uniting Early Learning service or centre.
• Access training and development opportunities to help you grow.
• Opt in or out of public holidays and be respected for your unique background.

What you will bring

You are an experienced worker with a track record working with people with mental health and AOD issues and experience working with young people would be great.

You will also bring with you a:

• A degree-level qualification in Social Work, OT, Counselling, Nursing, Psychology, or equivalent is preferred but not essential
• A Certificate IV in Mental Health and/or Certificate IV in Alcohol and Other Drugs, Peer work, Community Services, Youth Work or equivalent.
• Sound discipline knowledge, including the underlying principles of mental health recovery support, gained through experience, education and/or training.
• Knowledge of the statutory requirements related to community mental health support services.

View the position description here.

How to apply

Click APPLY to submit your interest, and we’ll contact you shortly. We’ll review applications as they come through, as we’re keen to engage with someone, and interviews may take place during the advertising period.

If you’d like to have a confidential chat about the opportunity, please get in touch with Tanya Aschenbrenner on 0418 726 840 or Michelle Freeman on 0458 208 833 during business hours.

About Uniting

At Uniting we are passionate about working together to inspire people, enliven communities and confront injustice. We have a 5,000 strong workforce of employees and volunteers who deliver a diverse range of services across Victoria and Tasmania.

Visit us: www.vt.uniting.org 

Uniting is a child safe organisation and is committed in everyday practice to ensure the safety and wellbeing of all children, at all times. As a ‘child safe’ organisation, employment with Uniting is subject to a satisfactory national (and international where relevant) police check and relevant Working with Children Check in your State prior to commencement of any paid or unpaid work and/or participation in any service or undertaking.

Through the recruitment process, we will ask you for personal information. Disclosure is optional, however, it can help us support you better. We invite you to tell us if you identify as Aboriginal, a person with disability, from a diverse background or LGBT+. You will be given an opportunity in the application form to request additional support. We welcome the opportunity to discuss how we can support you.

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