Support Facilitators (Partners in Recovery)
Job No:
48336
Location:
Sunshine Coast & Gympie, QLD
- Highly attractive remuneration package circa $62,000 - $68,000 negotiable (dependent on qualifications & experience)+ super and generous salary packaging to increase your take home pay!
- Ongoing opportunities for professional development & upskilling!
- Supportive and enthusiastic team environment!
About Partners in Recovery (PIR)
The PIR (Partners in Recovery) initiative is the collaborative effort of The Sunshine Coast Medicare Local in partnership with other service providers. The ultimate objective of the initiative is to improve the system response to, and outcomes for people living with severe and persistent mental illness.
Partners in Recovery aims to better support people with a lived experience of severe and persistent mental illness with complex needs, and their carers and families, by working in a more collaborative, coordinated, and integrated way with services the person may need. PIR will facilitate streamlined access to the clinical and other service and support needs of people experiencing severe and persistent mental illness with complex needs, and support improved coordination of multi-agency response. Further information about the initiative is available at http://www.health.gov.au/internet/main/publishing.nsf/Content/mental-pir
About the Opportunities - 8 Support Facilitator positions available
To establish the Partners in Recovery (PIR) initiative, the partnership is seeking eight (8) Support Facilitators in the Sunshine Coast and Gympie region.
As a Support Facilitator, you will be responsible for the facilitation of services and supports for people who are eligible for PIR services.
Your duties will include (but will not be limited to)
- Engaging in productive and respectful relationships with people living with serious mental illness, their family and networks
- Regularly consulting with people to develop and review their PIR action plan
- Supporting local area development activities such as promotional, networking and communication opportunities
- Contributing to service mapping and gap analysis in your area and
- Ensuring effective, recovery focused wrap around services for people by developing strategic partnerships with key stakeholders
Your success will be maximised by your knowledge of the local health and community sector along with experience working with clinical/health, welfare, support, housing and employment services.
The Partners in Recovery initiative on the Sunshine Coast and Gympie areas is seeking people who:
- Understand and demonstrate skills in working alongside people living with severe and persistent mental illness who have complex needs and who have experienced difficulty engaging with services,
- Actively collaborate with people living with mental illness, their families and networks to seek innovative solutions to complex problems using your resourcefulness and initiative to enhance opportunities for recovery,
- Have solid experience in working within a multidisciplinary service system,
- Have highly developed negotiation and networking skills along with an ability to think strategically,
- Are proactive, organised, and can work both autonomously and be part of the team,
- Can develop client centred action plans, maintain progress notes and write reports,
- Recognise systemic issues and barriers and have capacity to apply your analytic and problem solving skills,
- Display a high level of perseverance, resilience and self care,
- Are committed to ongoing professional development and can work within a recovery framework.
About the Benefits
This is a unique opportunity to work within a highly respected community mental health consortia of organisations committed to driving positive change through direct action in primary care and enhanced health outcomes for people with serious mental illness and complex needs.
Your drive and commitment will be rewarded with:
- Remuneration of $62,000 - $68,000 negotiable (subject to qualifications and experience) + super and generous salary packaging to increase your take home pay.
- Regular professional development opportunities to further enhance your skills and abilities.
- Regular professional supervision and mentoring.
- A friendly, supportive, enthusiastic team who share your vision.
Please note: Applications for this position close 9am Monday, 2nd of September, 2013 with a desired start date of September 30th, 2013.
People with a lived experience and carers are encouraged to apply.
About the Partners in Recovery Consortia – Sunshine Coast & Gympie
Sunshine Coast Medicare Local is leading an exciting partnership of Sunshine Coast and Gympie’s most respected and capable community mental health organisations with the primary objective of improving the system response to, and outcomes for people living with severe and enduring mental illness.
Host Agencies have been selected and each Agency is now looking to employ a Support Facilitator to be located in and work in that area.
Caloundra
Community Focus Association Inc. is a community based mental health service. The primary aim of the organisation is to contribute to reducing the isolation of individuals and groups within the community by promoting social interaction and connectedness, providing access to information and activities that promote mental wellness. Engaging participants (consumers) as members of the community not separated or isolated but as productive valuable contributors, promoting community inclusion and wellbeing such as social connectedness, supportive relationships and environments, freedom from discrimination and violence, by encouraging and supporting active peer participation. Click here to learn more.
Maroochydore
Suncare Community Services, Inc. provide care, support, information and referral services to members of the community including, carers of a person who is frail aged, frail aged persons who live independently and care for themselves but need some assistance, people of all ages with a disability and their carers, individuals and their carers requiring nursing or allied health support following release from hospital and individuals and carers who are in need of mental health support and education. Click here to learn more.
Hinterland
Care Connect Ltd is a major secular community care provider in New South Wales, Victoria and Queensland. They support people to live independently at home and in the community. Additionally they specialise in coordinating services with people of all ages in a variety of settings – disability, aged care, mental health and refugee humanitarian support – assisting them to navigate systems and access services they need to live the life they want. Care Connect also has strong links with the LGBTI people and their communities. This role within Care Connect will be well resourced and supported and a car is available to drive to and from work. Click here to learn more.
Nambour
Lutheran Community Care (LCC) is a not-for-profit organisation operating 25 aged care and community services around Queensland; caring for each individual’s emotional, physical and spiritual needs. Graceville Centre promotes mental health, provides support to individuals living with a mental health illness and/or intellectual disability. All Graceville services are conducted by working with individuals in a strength based and recovery-focused framework. Click here to learn more.
Noosa
Mental Illness Fellowship Queensland (MIFQ) is a specialist provider of programs and services for people living with a mental illness, their families and carers. Established in 1985, they work in five communities across Queensland, supporting thousands of people each year. Click here to learn more.
Noosa/Gympie
STEPS is a vibrant not-for-profit community organisation focused on creating opportunities for people living with a disability or disadvantage, assisting them to overcome barriers and move towards greater independence within their communities. Click here to learn more.
Gympie
Choice Support Service has a 14 year history of working with people with a mental illness to make a positive difference in their recovery journey. They are a well-known and respected, medium-sized, non-government, not-for-profit community managed organisation incorporated in May 1999. Choice delivers a range of centre-based activities and individual recovery focused support services to adults with symptoms of mental illness and/or psychiatric disability and bases its model of service delivery on the recovery paradigm. Click here to learn more.
Cotton Tree
Sunshine Coast Medicare Local’s purpose includes identifying primary healthcare needs in the region, establishing priorities in a region-wide primary health plan, and commissioning local healthcare providers to fulfil these needs and priorities. Their priorities include integrating health services to improve the patient journey between services, and promoting and demonstrating best practice in all areas of service. Sunshine Coast Medicare Local is also a Host Agency and will employ a ‘floating’ Support Facilitator. This role will based at Cotton Tree and cover leave of other Support Facilitators in all areas and assist in PIR operations where needed. Click here to learn more.