Title: Mental Health Occupational Therapy or Social Work Graduate

Location:Upper Ferntree Gully, VIC, AU, 3156

Job Posting Date: 22 Sep 2024

• Ability to engage consumers, families, carers and supporters in the development and implementation of individualised plans designed to promote, foster and sustain personal recovery.
• A commitment to working with consumers, families, carers and supporters from a wide range of cultural and social backgrounds and to providing services that are family and gender sensitive.
• Knowledge of the mental health sector, including roles and workings of mental health teams and relevant community resources and services to support people with mental illness.
• Ability and commitment to work collaboratively with consumers, carers, supporters the multidisciplinary team including the lived experience workforce and external agencies.
• Commitment to supervised and reflective practice, lifelong learning and further development.
• Computer literacy and embracing of health technologies and informatics.
• High level of self-awareness and emotional intelligence.
• Demonstrated high level interpersonal skills with consumers, their families and all health care professionals including effective conflict resolution and negotiation.

• We are an equal opportunity employer and actively promote equality for people of all races, ethnicities, gender identities, sexual orientations, and for people living with disability – within the communities we serve and our Eastern Health team.
• We provide a culturally safe and welcoming environment for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander employees.
• As a child-safe organisation, we ensure child safety and wellbeing is embedded in our everyday culture.
• Vaccination and screening for immunity to vaccine-preventable disease is a mandatory requirement of this role.
• Advertising may end before the closing date.
• We do not accept recruitment agency application