• Be a part of the mental health reform working alongside a multidisciplinary team to provide support and intervention to those with complex mental health and alcohol and other drug challenges
• Generous not for profit organisation salary packaging.
• Frankston location

Support major mental health reform in Victoria to ensure that everyone is supported.

This is an amazing opportunity to assist in shaping the future of peer and community-let mental health services.

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

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 everyone can access treatment and care closer to home.  

The Frankston Mental Health and Wellbeing Local provides welcoming and inclusive support for people aged 26 years and over who are experiencing mental health challenges, including people with co-occurring alcohol and drug dependence treatment and care needs. 

Our service is led by lived experience and coproduced with the local community to meet its needs.

The service currently operates 6 days per week, and this position is required to work rostered hours. The Frankston Mental Health Local is committed to reconciliation, lived experience and inclusivity. We strongly encourage and warmly welcome people from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, people with a lived experience of mental health and disability and people who identify as LGBTIQA+ to apply. Even if you only meet some of the criteria, we’d love to hear from you.

About the role

You will provide psychological interventions to people experiencing mental health and wellbeing challenges and those experiencing co-occurring alcohol and other drug challenges. You will practice collaboratively working with other clinicians, consumer peer workers, community practitioners and service consumers. You will provide psychological assessments, and individual and group therapy sessions. You will work collaboratively with clinical and non-clinical staff to complete assessments of participants on their entry into the service.

About you

You are an experienced psychologist, accustomed to working with several treatment modalities. You can demonstrate that your practice is collaborative, and responsive to the needs of consumers. You are ready and willing to implement the changes to mental health services as recommended by the Royal Commission into Mental Health.

Requirements

• Master of Psychology with APRHA registration as a psychologist. (Clinical preferred.)
• Minimum 2 years’ experience in a mental health service setting however, psychologists with less than 2 years of experience in mental health service may also be considered
• 100 points of ID
• National police check and Working with Children Check
• Right to work in Australia
• People with lived experience of mental health challenges are encouraged to apply.

Benefits

· Access to generous not for profit salary packaging and leave loading

· Ongoing learning and development opportunities

· Membership in a dynamic team.

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

For a confidential discussion about the role contact Michael Sillekens, Clinical Services Manager or Maya Catic, People and Culture Manager on 5970 5000.

Applicants should view the position description prior to applying.

If this role sounds like a perfect match for your skills and approach to mental health and wellbeing, send your resume and a covering letter telling us a bit more about your interest in this role to info@mentisassist.org.au

Please apply ASAP as we will interview suitable applicants upon receipt of application.

Please read full position description prior to applying, available here.

Closing date is 23/05/2025.

• 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”.