Skills and interests
What are you about?
- Do you care about people and want to make a difference?
- Are you someone who likes to work alongside people by guiding, informing, developing and supporting?
- Are you keen to support people in their quest for physical and emotional wellbeing?
- Do you want to use your own experiences of mental health issues - whether yours, your family or your friends - in a meaningful way?
- Are you looking for a change from working in hospitality, tourism, education, community or voluntary roles?
What are your passions and how do they fit with mental health?
Passionate about science?
Enjoy analysing, investigating and problem solving?
Have you thought of: Clinical psychology, Psychiatry, Mental health nursing?
Passionate about the arts?
Enjoy being artistic, creative and innovative?
Have you thought of: Art or music therapy, Diversional therapy?
Passionate about how people function physically?
Interested in anatomy?
Have you thought of: Occupational therapy, Psychiatry, Mental health nursing?
Passionate about human relationships and how people relate?
Good at relating to other people in a non judgemental way?
Have you thought of: Counselling, Mental health support work, Peer support work, Social work, Mental health nursing?
Passionate about advocacy and problem solving in a practical way?
Interested in community and social issues?
Have you thought of: Social work, Community support work, Occupational therapy, Mental health nursing?
Passionate and intrigued by the emotional mental wellbeing of people?
Completed your Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery and keen to understand more about mental health disorders and specific interventions?
Have you thought of: Psychiatry?
Passionate about management and leadership?
Enjoy setting up projects, influencing, managing? Ready to take the clinical, cultural or consumer skills and knowledge you have of the mental health sector to a new level?
Have you thought of: Management roles such as project management, team leadership, workforce development, clinical education?
