Join Our Team
At Shine Bright Mental Health, we’re building a team that is skilled, values-led and genuinely passionate about making a difference in the Wide Bay community.
We work with complex mental health, AOD, trauma and psychosocial disability – always through a trauma-informed, recovery-focused lens. If you’re looking for meaningful work in a supportive, clinically-backed environment, we’d love to hear from you.
Current Roles
Senior Clinician - Men’s Mental Health
Join our new Men’s Mental Health & Youth Hub as a Senior Clinician providing high-quality, trauma-informed therapeutic care to young men and men in the Wide Bay region.
In this role you will:
- Provide individual therapy and clinical assessments
- Complete risk assessments and safety planning
- Deliver SMART Recovery and group programs
- Support early intervention, walk-in and community-based support
- Contribute to outcomes reporting and evaluation for funded deliverables
Ideal for: Psychologists, Mental Health Nurses, Social Workers, OTs or experienced counsellors with 3–5+ years’ therapeutic experience and strong risk assessment skills.
Senior Alcohol and Other Drugs Worker
This Senior AOD role leads the development and delivery of Shine Bright’s AOD services across the Wide Bay region.
In this role you will:
- Deliver AOD interventions, harm minimisation education and relapse prevention
- Facilitate SMART Recovery and Family & Friends groups, plus community awareness sessions
- Lead Naloxone training and other community education initiatives
- Build partnerships with local AOD, mental health and community services
- Identify and support grant and funding opportunities to grow AOD programs
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Ideal for: AOD practitioners with a minimum Diploma-level qualification and 3+ years’ AOD or community health experience, confident in program delivery, community engagement and mentoring others.
Psychosocial Recovery Coach
Our Psychosocial Recovery Coach works alongside participants with psychosocial disability to build capacity, strengthen independence, and support people to live meaningful and connected lives.
What the role involves
- Building strong, empowering and recovery-focused relationships
- Supporting participants to develop and implement personalised recovery plans
- Using coaching strategies to build decision-making, resilience and daily life skills
- Coordinating supports across clinical, community and informal networks
- Helping participants navigate the NDIS, plan reviews and service agreements
- Identifying early warning signs and activating appropriate responses
- Completing accurate documentation and progress reports
Support Workers - Mental Health
We’re seeking experienced Support Workers to provide person-centred, trauma-informed support to participants with complex mental health presentations and psychosocial disabilities.
In this role you will:
- Support people living with conditions such as schizophrenia, dual diagnosis, anxiety, depression and personality disorders
- Use de-escalation and crisis response strategies safely and professionally
- Promote independence through daily living skills, community participation and capacity-building activities
- Complete accurate documentation and reports in line with NDIS and internal standards
Ideal for: Support Workers with 2–3+ years’ experience, strong boundaries, emotional resilience and a solid understanding of mental health and dual diagnosis.
Experienced Support Coordinator
We’re recruiting an Experienced Support Coordinator to walk alongside NDIS participants with complex needs, psychosocial disability and dual diagnosis.
In this role you will:
- Help participants understand and implement their NDIS plans
- Coordinate formal, informal and mainstream supports
- Advocate with services, government departments and community agencies
- Build participant capacity in decision-making, budgeting and navigating systems
- Monitor progress, problem-solve barriers and complete regular reporting and record-keeping
- Position Description – Experienced
Ideal for: Coordinators with strong knowledge of the NDIS, experience with complex mental health presentations, and confident communication and advocacy skills
Positive Behaviour Support Practitioner - Any Level
We are seeking Positive Behaviour Support Practitioners (any NDIS PBS level) to work with Shine Bright on a subcontract basis.
In this role you will typically:
- Complete functional behaviour assessments and develop Positive Behaviour Support Plans
- Work with people with psychosocial disability and complex support needs
- Provide practical, trauma-informed strategies to participants, families and support teams
- Collaborate with our clinical and support teams to ensure plans are embedded in everyday support
- Maintain NDIS-compliant documentation and outcome reporting
Ideal for: PBS practitioners who are confident working with complexity, enjoy thinking outside the box and value flexible, subcontract arrangements.