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Join the Metro South Addiction and Mental Health Service as an Advanced Recreation Officer and help drive post-disaster mental health recovery.

This temporary part-time position offers a unique opportunity to use your diversional therapy skills to facilitate engaging, culturally sensitive programs and advocate for disaster-impacted communities.

Job details

Your new role:

As an Advanced Recreation Officer within the Metro South Addiction and Mental Health Service Disaster Flood Team, you will play a vital role in promoting post-disaster mental health recovery and fostering long-term community resilience.

• Facilitate and deliver age-appropriate, culturally sensitive recreational, educational, and diversional therapy programs that support health, recovery, and intergenerational connectedness for disaster-impacted individuals and communities.
• Adopt a consumer- and community-centred approach to assess diversional and recreation therapy needs, ensuring safety and wellbeing during activities while regularly evaluating programs against changing community demands.
• Collaborate closely with local stakeholders, multidisciplinary team members, and community networks to enhance access to services, promote psychosocial wellbeing, and advocate for impacted consumers.

About you:

We are looking for a dedicated, compassionate, and collaborative professional who aligns with our values and brings the necessary clinical skills to make a meaningful difference in our community.

• Holds an Advanced Certificate in Disability Studies, a Certificate IV in Health and Community Services (Diversional Therapy), or an equivalent qualification from a recognized tertiary institution, alongside a current class C motor vehicle licence endorsement.
• Demonstrates the ability to appropriately plan, implement, and evaluate mental health recovery-focused programs using an evidence-based approach.
• Possesses strong interpersonal and teamwork skills, with a proven ability to work both independently and collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team to advocate for consumers, families, and disaster-impacted communities.

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What we can offer you:

• We offer a family-friendly work environment that supports you in making the most of Queensland's laid-back lifestyle.
• We are renowned for teaching and research excellence with strong relations with Queensland's leading tertiary institutions.
• We want to empower you to build a long-term career, with countless opportunities to learn and grow, no matter your role
• You'll have all the benefits of working for Queensland's world-class public health system including generous leave entitlements, attractive salary and remuneration packages, salary packaging and access to relevant professional development allowances and/or leave, study and research assistance, corporate discounts and employee wellness programs.

About us:

Metro South Addiction and Mental Health Services (MSAMHS) provide inpatient, hospital-based and community mental health and community alcohol and drug services for all age groups at a number of campuses across Metro South Health. The service is committed to the provision of services that are patient centred and recovery focussed.

MSAMHS Disaster Flood Team is a multidisciplinary outreach team that provides specialist post disaster mental health recovery services to the individuals off all ages and communities, under the Disaster Recovery Funding Arrangements – Category C.

INTEGRITY | COMPASSION | ACCOUNTABILITY | RESPECT | ENGAGEMENT | EXCELLENCE

Our values were created by employees for employees to shape our culture and inspire positive interactions in the workplace. Diversity of ideas, skills, traditions, and customs is celebrated as one of our greatest strengths. Having a workforce that reflects and understands the needs and expectations of our community is important to delivering safe, kinder, and more inclusive care.

We recognise our strength comes from the diversity of our people and so we encourage people of all genders, ethnicities, ages, abilities, languages, sexual orientation, and family responsibilities to apply.

We are better together.

Further information

We are committed to building inclusive cultures in the Queensland public sector that respect and promote human rights and diversity.

Applicants are encouraged to apply online. Please review the Role Description for more information on application process requirements. Agency referrals will not be accepted for this position.

Documents

Before applying for this vacancy please ensure you read the documents below.

• Application essentials - things you need to know (PDF)
  
  We are MSH - five reasons why you should join us (PDF)
  
  MS11696084 RD (PDF)