Family & Life Skills - Mental Health Educator

Transform Lives Every day!

Equip churches and communities to support mental health and wellbeing.

Anglicare Sydney is seeking a passionate and skilled Mental Health Educator to join our Family & Life Skills Education (FLSE) Team. This is a meaningful role for someone who loves teaching, facilitating groups, and building strong partnerships across Anglican churches, ministry organisations and schools.

What you’ll be doing

• Deliver around 35 seminars and courses each year on mental health and wellbeing.
• Facilitate Mental Health First Aid and Youth MHFA certificates about four times annually. (Training to become an accredited MHFA facilitator can be part of the role)
• Build strong relationships with Anglican churches, schools, Anglicare teams, and Christian organisations.
• Develop and deliver evidence‑based, practical training and workshops.
• Review participant feedback and contribute to continuous improvement.
• Where appropriate, teach, preach or speak in Christian ministry settings and develop biblically aligned content.

What you’ll bring

• A degree in Social Work, Psychology, Counselling, Nursing, L&D Learning & Development or equivalent.
• At least 2 years’ Experience in mental health support, training, or group facilitation.
• Experience supporting people with mental health needs (community, church, NGO, or health settings).
• Strong facilitation and communication skills.
• Current NSW Driver License and Working with Children Check.

It is desirable that you have:

• Theological training at Certificate level or above.
• Sound knowledge of Anglicare, including services, programs and organisational structure.
• An understanding of the structure and culture of the Anglican Diocese of Sydney.
• Demonstrated experience in parish ministry.
• Willingness and ability to facilitate the administrative requirements the role as required.
• Anglican License to Minister in the Sydney Diocese (or ability to gain one).

Please visit our careers page and search for Mental Health Educator Family &

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants are encouraged to apply.

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Anglicare is committed to ensuring the safety and wellbeing of children and young people and has zero tolerance of child abuse.

Applicants are encouraged to apply as soon as possible as applications may be reviewed prior to the closing date; and as such the closing date is subject to change without notice.