Experience

Grand Pacific Health

• Australia
• Wellness and Fitness Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Rural Adversity Mental Health Program (RAMHP) Coordinator

  • Oct 2021 - Present

  Exciting times with our new RAMHP managers, Grand Pacific Health. Core business remains the same: connecting people to the help they need. Training, educating, informing and presenting to communities and workplaces about psychological first aid, good mental health, wellbeing, mental health first aid and self care. Promoting good mental health practise for functional and fulfilling living and relationships. Delivering non-clinical, proven therapeutic strategies for better management of challenges that compromise good mental health and wellbeing. Linking individuals to appropriate and professional local mental health providers, online/app mental health resources and virtual mental health services. Partnering with organisations to better achieve goals for stronger community wellbeing, individual wholeness of being and recovery from adversity and natural disaster.



Centre for Rural & Remote Mental Health

• Australia
• Mental Health Care
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Rural Adversity Mental Health Program, Coordinator

  • Jul 2019 - Oct 2021

  Travelled NSW supporting and back-filling for RAMHP Coordinators. This included responding to natural disasters: drought, fires and floods. Linked people to appropriate mental health services and resources. Educated workplaces and communities about mental health and wellbeing with provision of strategies and therapeutic resource. Responded in times of natural disaster and severe adversity. Accepted position as RAMHP Coordinator within the Western NSW Local Health District in 2020. Travelled NSW supporting and back-filling for RAMHP Coordinators. This included responding to natural disasters: drought, fires and floods. Linked people to appropriate mental health services and resources. Educated workplaces and communities about mental health and wellbeing with provision of strategies and therapeutic resource. Responded in times of natural disaster and severe adversity. Accepted position as RAMHP Coordinator within the Western NSW Local Health District in 2020.



Uniting Church in Australia

• Religious Institutions
• 400 - 500 Employee

• Lead Pastor

  • Jan 2009 - Jul 2019

  Pastor of the Uniting Church in Australia for 10 years while teaching HSC Religion and Mathematics. Actively engaged in the pastoral care, formation and spiritual development of local faith communities. Forged meaningful links between the UCA faith communities and committees and the Church’s school in rural NSW. Pastor of the Uniting Church in Australia for 10 years while teaching HSC Religion and Mathematics. Actively engaged in the pastoral care, formation and spiritual development of local faith communities. Forged meaningful links between the UCA faith communities and committees and the Church’s school in rural NSW.



Kinross Wolaroi School

• Australia
• Education Administration Programs
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Teacher and Chaplain

  • Jul 2008 - Jul 2019

  Advanced a Christocentric, pluralistic worldview for a diverse School community which at that time was seeking an authentic faith-based relevance in the modern era.Taught Mathematics and HSC Studies of Religion. HSC results for SOR repeatedly placed the subject among the top performing courses in the School.Developed wellbeing programs and social justice campaigns. Instituted international interfaith dialogue engagement and cultural immersion programs. More importantly, I taught students to think creatively, to problem solve and to articulate rational conclusions from evidence.Conducted cultural and study tours to Turkey & philanthropic tours to Cambodia. Established platforms for learning and exchange with Islamic, Buddhist and secular schools and organisations.In 2011, received the Australian Affinity Intercultural Foundation Award for Education in recognition of contributions to interfaith dialogue.Instrumental to the institution of an Indigenous bursary program and to education on contemporary Aboriginal spirituality and modern Aboriginal history.

• Secondary School Teacher

  • Jan 2006 - Jul 2008

  When I was a full time teacher, I taught Mathematics Years 7-12 and the HSC Studies of Religion (SOR) course Years 11-12.As a FYI, the HSC Studies of Religion courses I taught included learning in the areas of Aboriginal spirituality, Buddhism, Christianity, Islam and Judaism and non-religious worldviews.