People & Culture Manager

Lead strategy, culture and workforce excellence in community mental health

Mornington, VIC | Part Time 0.8 EFT, 4 days per week | Leadership | NFP Salary Packaging| Ongoing contract |Total Package 129K to 136K (pro rata)

Shape the future of a purpose-driven organisation.

Are you an HR leader who thrives in complex, people-focused environments?

Do you combine strong employee relations expertise with the ability to build culture, influence leaders, and drive strategic workforce outcomes?

Mentis Assist is seeking an experienced People & Culture Manager to lead our People & Culture function and help shape the future of our workforce across a respected community mental health organisation.

This is a rare opportunity to step into a true leadership role where your expertise will directly influence organisational culture, workforce capability, compliance, and employee wellbeing.

About Us

Mentis Assist is a well-established not-for-profit community mental health organisation supporting people across southeast Melbourne living with mental illness.

For over 35 years, we’ve partnered with people on their recovery journey through strengths-based, person-centred support that builds independence, wellbeing, and meaningful community connection.

We’re values-driven, inclusive, and committed to creating psychologically safe workplaces where our people can thrive.

What you’ll do

Reporting to the Director of Operations & Business Development, this is a strategic and hands-on leadership role overseeing the full People & Culture function. You’ll be the organisation’s advisor on all workforce matters, partnering closely with Executive leadership and Finance to deliver compliant, contemporary, high-performing people practices. Your remit includes:

• Workforce strategy & organisational development
• Employee relations
• Performance, conduct & workplace investigations
• Award & enterprise agreement interpretation
• Workforce compliance & governance
• Payroll-related employment oversight
• Psychosocial safety & employee wellbeing
• WorkCover & return to work
• Learning, capability & leadership development
• HR systems, reporting & workforce analytics

This role also leads the organisation’s approach to workforce risk, culture, employee engagement, and employment compliance.

What you’ll bring

You’re a confident and experienced HR leader who can move seamlessly between strategic workforce planning and complex operational matters.

Essential

• Bachelor degree qualification in Human Resources, Employment Relations, Business, Psychology or related discipline
• Significant generalist HR leadership experience
• Advanced employee relations capability
• Strong knowledge of Australian employment law
• Proven experience interpreting Awards and Enterprise Agreements
• Demonstrated experience managing complex employee relations matters
• Experience leading workplace investigations, performance and conduct processes
• Experience partnering with Finance on payroll compliance matters
• Knowledge of psychosocial safety, WorkCover and return to work obligations
• Current Victorian Driver License

Highly Regarded

• Experience in mental health, community services, healthcare, disability or NFP sectors
• SCHADS Award expertise
• AHRI certification
• Return to Work experience
• Certificate IV in Training & Assessment qualification

Why Join Us?

This is more than an HR leadership role.

It’s an opportunity to help shape workforce culture in an organisation making genuine impact in the community.

What we offer:

• NFP salary packaging benefits
• Flexible work arrangements
• True leadership opportunity with genuine influence
• Purpose-driven, values-led culture
• Meaningful work supporting community mental health
• Professional development opportunities

Ready to Apply?

If you're an experienced People & Culture leader ready to make meaningful impact in a values-driven organisation, we’d love to hear from you.

Application Process

Please submit your CV and cover letter addressing the Key Selection Criteria. Applications that do not address the Selection Criteria in a separate cover letter will not be considered. You can view the Position Description here.

For further information please contact Jayne Parish on 03 5970 5000, email hr@mentisassist.org.au, or visit our website www.mentisassist.org.au.

Apply now! We will interview suitable applicants upon receipt of applications.

Wellbeing Navigator – Psychosocial – Mental Health and Wellbeing Local – Frankston

• Engage with community members to co-design innovative mental health services.
• SCHADS 4, Generous salary packaging.
• 1.0 FTE Full-Time position (38 hours per week) fixed term until 31/12/2026

Play a key role in major mental health reform in Victoria to ensure everyone is supported to access the services they need, close to their home.

This is an amazing opportunity to help shape the future of peer and community led mental health services for adults and older adults.

This local support is a key recommendation of the Royal Commission into Victoria’s mental health system and promises to make our community a better place to be.

The Mental Health and Wellbeing Local – Frankston

Wellways, Mentis Assist, and Peninsula Health are working together to provide mental health and wellbeing supports in Frankston to ensure that everyone can access treatment and care close to home.

We are working with the local community and people who have personal experience of mental health issues and recovery to build these services so that they are the best they can be. Our service delivery will be informed by lived experience and co-produced by the local community.

About the role

Reporting to the Senior Wellbeing Navigator and employed by Mentis Assist, you will provide individual support and group interventions to consumers, and assist with service navigation. Your practice will be person centered, strengths based, trauma informed and recovery driven. You will value the experience of our consumers to help inform your practice.

About you

Your ability to work flexibly and agilely within a service delivery partnership is essential. You are ready and willing to implement the changes to mental health services as recommended by the Royal Commission into Mental Health. Above all, your approach will be innovative and collaborative. Eventually the service will operate 7 days a week, and on weekday evenings.

If this sounds like an ideal match for your approach to mental health and wellbeing service delivery, please contact us to discuss or lodge your application now.

Requirements

• Minimum Certificate IV in Mental Health; higher relevant qualifications such as the Diploma of Mental Health/AOD or a relevant degree would be well regarded.
• Minimum 2 years mental health experience in a similar role in a community mental health setting
• Innovative approach to mental health service delivery
• Experience working with consumers in the co-design of mental health services
• Prior experience or willingness to learn and work with Microsoft Office, IT applications as required.
• Current Victorian Driver’s License
• Right to Work in Australia
• National Police Check and Working with Children Check
• Evidence of complete COVID 19 vaccination or valid medical exemption
• We are committed to reconciliation, lived experience, and inclusiveness. We strongly encourage and warmly welcome people from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island communities, people with lived experience of mental health issues and disability, people who identify as LGBTIQ+ to apply. Even if you meet only some of the criteria, we’d love to hear from you.

Application Process

Applicants will need to view the Position Description by clicking here which details Key Selection Criteria.

Please submit your CV and cover letter addressing the Key Selection Criteria. Applications that do not address the Selection Criteria in a separate cover letter will not be considered.

For further information, please contact Frankston Mental Health and Wellbeing Local, 1800 000 525, email hr@mentisassist.org.au, or visit our website www.mentisassist.org.au.

Apply as soon as possible. We will start interviewing as applications are received.

The Mental Health Locals teams will have an amazing opportunity to drive much-needed mental health improvements for our communities.

Mentis Assist is an equal opportunity employer and strongly encourages applications from diverse backgrounds including those with a lived experience of mental illness, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, and members of the LGBTIQ+ community.

• Are you looking for work in the mental health field but don’t see a position advertised here that interests you?
• Do you have a qualification in the mental health field (minimum Certificate IV in Mental Health ranging to a Master’s Degree)?
• Do you have experience working with people experiencing mental health challenges, in either a community or clinical setting?

Lodge an expression of interest with us by emailing info@mentisassist.org.au with "Expression of Interest" in the subject line and attach your resume. We will contact you when a suitable role becomes available.

All applicants who are shortlisted for roles must undertake a National Police Check, and a Working With Children Check.

Current Drivers license is necessary.

We value diversity and welcome expressions of interest from people from all communities, cultures, and life experiences including lived experience of mental ill health.

Important Information for Applicants

Please read this before applying for a position with Mentis Assist

General Information

If you are selected for an interview with Mentis Assist, you must bring to the interview, your completed Pre-Employment documents, which you should receive by email once your interview time has been confirmed.

Police Check

If you are selected for an interview you must also consent to a National Criminal History check. You will be required to bring 100 points of ID with you to the interview so that this check can be undertaken.

Working with Children Check

You will also be required to bring proof of a valid Working With Children check to interview.

Qualifications and professional registration

Please bring evidence of any professional association registrations, if stated as a requirement of the position you are applying for (eg. Australian Health Practitioners Regulation Agency, Nursing Registration).

Also bring, as required by the position you are applying for, original Diplomas, Certificates of Competency, Statements of Attainment, or evidence of completion of a degree such as a final academic transcript which states the degree conferred, or the Testamur.

Certified copies of Certificates are acceptable, however original documents are preferred. Many Pharmacists will certify copies of documents, as will Police Officers.

What does “Addressing Key Selection Criteria” Mean?

Key Selection Criteria are the key qualifications (if any), abilities, training, personal attributes, skills, and experience that you must have in order to do a particular job effectively. The more key selection criteria you can demonstrate that you meet, the more likely it will be that you will be short-listed for an interview.

Addressing the Key Selection Criteria does not mean viewing the Position Description and signing it, as read.

To submit a fully completed application for employment with Mentis Assist, you MUST provide 3 separate documents:

• A covering letter introducing yourself and why the position is of interest to you
• A detailed resume
• A separate document addressing the Key Selection Criteria. The Key Selection Criteria can found in the Position Description for the role.

Note: If your application is not in this format your application will NOT be considered.

Addressing the Key Selection Criteria

Refer to the Position Description and create a list of the Key Selection Criteria in bold.

Think about how you meet each criteria. Write notes with specific examples of how you meet the criteria and use these notes to help you write your final response.

Use clear language with specific examples of your past work, volunteer, extra-curricular activities, student placement, or other experience to demonstrate how you meet each Key Selection Criteria

As a guide, use the “STAR” method to provide examples of how you meet the criteria. Explain the ‘Situation’ - where the relevant example came from, followed by the ‘Task’ which is your role in the example provided. Outline what ‘Action’ you took, and state the end ‘Result’.

For example - to address the key selection criteria: "experience in preparing financial reports"

As a financial officer at ZYZ Corporation, I prepared monthly budget analysis reports for the senior leadership team. The reports were delivered within required timeframes each month. I was able to advise the leadership team of potential deficits and recommend remedial actions and as a result, budget targets were met.

Where selection criteria are about ‘experience’, be specific about time frames and situations. For example: “five years’ experience working with young people with an intellectual disability in a community residential unit”.