[Hiring] Recovery Oriented Mental Health - Online Facilitation @Linc Education Services Pte Ltd

Role Description

This is a remote position.

As an experienced online educator (LINC Fellow), the candidate will work as an independent contractor of LINC and serve a diverse international student body for Undergraduate-level programs studying at premier Australian and Asian universities. The candidate must possess strong knowledge of mental health care and recovery-oriented practice, with expertise in:

• Consumer rights
• Self-determination
• Collaborative decision-making
• Evidence-based approaches to complex mental ill-health

The candidate should be able to support students in:

• Critically examining the mental health consumer movement
• Understanding the social and cultural contexts of mental illness
• Addressing stigma
• Applying strength-based approaches while balancing consumer and carer needs, confidentiality, and privacy

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse or Midwife (AHPRA registration) or Registered Mental Health Practising Nurse and knowledge of unit content
• PhD and/or Master Degree in Nursing or relevant field (i.e. health-related) plus 5 years' relevant teaching, research and/or professional experience at the PG level in the last 10 years
• Full rights to work within Australia
• An Australian Business Number or ABN as a sole trader, or of the entity that will contract with LINC
• Empathetic, ambitious, warm and outgoing personality willing to work closely with people from diverse cultures
• Proficient in English language; excellent oral and written communication
• Must possess a working laptop and have access to high-speed (>10 MBPS) stable internet connection
• Ability to quickly learn and use technology platforms for interacting with students, including the host university’s LMS and LINCtrac (training on these platforms will be provided)
• The candidate needs to be available between 5 pm to 10 pm every day

Requirements

• Recovery-oriented mental health care
• Mental health consumer rights and advocacy
• Consumer movement and service delivery
• Self-determination and collaborative decision-making
• Strength-based practice
• Stigma and cultural perspectives on mental illness
• Evidence-based mental health interventions
• Complex mental ill-health support
• Confidentiality and privacy in mental health care
• Consumer and carer collaboration

Roles & Responsibilities

LINC Fellows will be responsible for providing:

• Subject matter guidance to a group of 25-30 undergraduate online students
• Support in learning skills like academic writing, research and time management
• Conduct 1:1 sessions for doubt-resolution, academic guidance and assessment draft reviews
• Guidance on relevant reference material
• Assessment marking with long-form feedback
• Management of discussion forums
• Proactive, prompt and personalised support to student queries and issues

LINC Fellows will be expected to promptly interact with students over email, or calls / online sessions from locations of their convenience (e.g. home, office etc.).