Job description
- Multiple Opportunities Available
- SACS Level 2
Skylight Programs deliver a range of recovery-oriented community mental health services by working alongside people experiencing mental illness, family and friends who care for them, and the broader general South Australian community.
Covering locations in Metropolitan Adelaide (Southern, Central and Northern suburbs) and in the Murray Mallee region, Skylight is looking to recruit Support Workers who are capable of providing individualised support to participants. We are currently recruiting in the metropolitan regions, with a higher need in the Southern and Northern suburbs.
Shifts are across various times during the day and can include weekends and public holidays. We do not provide overnight supports. There are also opportunities to provide support to participants within a group setting by facilitating activity groups within Skylight centres if this is something you have relevant skills and experience / an interest in.
As a Support Worker at Skylight you will be supporting NDIS participants to work towards achieving their goals and support with daily living tasks while building their capacity and independence. This may look like supporting a participant to appointments, group activities, social outings, food shopping, medication pickups etc. We do this by working within recovery oriented, trauma informed and person-centred practices & provide support with the barriers experienced in their psychosocial wellbeing. We do not provide personal care.
We require Support Workers with the skills and experience working with participants who have complex needs and some participants who require a 2:1 support ratio.
Skylight Support Workers make a real difference to the lives of people experiencing mental illness, building from these key areas:
- 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?
If you answered YES to the questions above and would like to work alongside our participants to improve / support their wellbeing, then submit an application today to join our team.
TO APPLY
Send through your resume along with a cover letter that includes your responses to the three questions below. Please keep your responses to no more than one single A4 page*.
Three questions:
- To be considered to move to the next stage of the application process you must complete and send through your answers to these questions:
- Provide an example of supporting someone who experiences mental health challenges in their day-to-day life, using recovery oriented, trauma informed or person-centred practices?
- Support requires rapport building while establishing boundaries. Share a time where you have been able to do this and where it may have been more challenging. What did you learn from this for your own growth in practice?
- You are supporting a participant 3 hours weekly, the supports have become repetitive and the participant has lost motivation to identify/work towards their goals. How would you reset this support?
THE SUCCESSFUL APPLICANTS WILL HAVE:
- 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
- Smartphone with internet capabilities
- Current SA Drivers Licence and willingness to use own vehicle
- DHS Working With Children Check and NDIS Worker Check
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.
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