Mental Health support Worker
Core
Providing direct care, support, and interventions for individuals with mental illness and disabilities to promote independence and community inclusion.
Role type
Mental Health Support Worker
Builds
Personalized care plans and community participation programs for clients with disabilities
Domain
Disability support and mental health services
Deliverable
physical/clinical work
Required skills
Behavior management, personal care, community facilitation, psycho-education, mentoring, transport coordination, report writing
Preferred skills
NDIS scheme understanding, mental health industry experience, computer and admin skills
Technologies
NDIS Workers Checks, DCSI Clearance, Working With Children Checks
Responsibilities
Building trusting relationships with clients and their support circles, assisting clients to achieve personal goals, facilitating community inclusion and participation, encouraging positive behavior and managing challenging behaviors, providing personal care and direct care for people with mental illness and disabilities, supporting clients in community programs, transporting clients to engagements and appointments, completing incident and progress reports, implementing behavior management strategies, empowering participants with skill development and employment choices