🕒 Employment Type: Permanent Full-Time
📍 Location: Tuggerah
📅 Roster: Monday to Sunday, 7-day rotating roster
⏰ Shifts: Must be available for both 8:00 AM – 4:00 PM and 12:00 PM – 8:00 PM
💰 Classification: SCHADS Level 2 + Generous Salary Packaging Benefits
Role Overview:
Community Living Supports (CLS) Support Workers will work with the Team Leader to ensure that the most appropriate and effective services are provided to CLS consumers. This will include the transition from inpatient units to the community. Support workers will support the creation of individualised recovery plans to best support consumers in reaching their recovery goals.
About CLS
The Enhanced Adult Community Living Supports (CLS) Of Uniting is a community outreach service assisting adults across NSW recover and transition to quality of life in the community. The service delivery is individualised and flexible. Targeting individuals with stable housing, service provision commences from the inpatient unit and transitions into the community.
Duties and responsibilities include but are not limited to:
- Experience working with individuals with severe and persistent mental illness.
- Understanding of the Principles of Recovery Orientated Mental Health Practice.
- Assist with the assessment of consumers and the development of individual recovery plans based on individual recovery goals.
- Assist with the monitoring and review of consumer recovery plans, in partnership with carers/family members/clinicians/ community organisations as appropriate.
Essential Criteria:
- Minimum Certificate IV in Mental Health or related field
- A current full driver’s license (Unrestricted)
- Understanding of the Principles of Recovery Orientated Mental Health Practice.
- Demonstrated ability to develop individual support plans with consumers.
- Able to work both 8AM-4PM and 12PM-8PM shifts
- Ability to provide individualized psychosocial support to people living with severe and persistent mental illness
To Apply, click the Apply button & attach your Resume and Cover Letter addressing the Essential criteria.
What we offer:
- Professional development and training opportunities
- A professional and friendly work environment
- An opportunity to promote hope and recovery in people’s lives.
- Competitive salary and salary sacrificing options (pay less tax)
- Fitness Passport, U Rewards and other great employee benefits
Enquiries to Talent Acquisition Specialist Pallavi Bhatia on [email protected]
Application closes – Sunday, 11:59pm 25th May 2025
Employment with Uniting is subject to satisfactory background checks, which include National Police Checks, Working with Children Checks and Reference Checks.
About Uniting: When you’re part of Uniting NSW.ACT, you’re part of a diverse, purpose-led team of people who are really making a difference to the world around them. We contribute to the work and mission of the Uniting Church in NSW and the ACT through social justice advocacy, community services and spiritual care. We provide care and support for people through all ages and stages of life, with a focus on people experiencing disadvantage and vulnerability. Our purpose is to inspire people, enliven communities and confront injustice.
Uniting leaders and employees work together to create a culture that is safe, inclusive and person-centred. We bring this to life every day through our values: compassionate, respectful, imaginative and bold.
Uniting acknowledges the continuing sovereignty and rich cultural diversity of Australia’s First Peoples. We pay our respects to all Elders – past, present, and emerging – and to all First Peoples on whose lands we live and work. Uniting is a Child Safe Organisation committed to promoting the safety, wellbeing and inclusion of children and young people.
