Consumer Peer Support Worker – AoD

• Part time 20 hours per week, fixed term 12-month role
• Working across all lived experience programs
• Be part of an exciting innovative lived experience team
• Work for a leading AMHS embracing lived experience workforce roles

Inner West Area Mental Health Service (IWAMHS)

The Inner West Area Mental Health Service – Royal Melbourne Hospital (IWAMHS – RMH) is committed to working with consumers during their recovery by offering holistic and evidence-based  treatment, which is inclusive of family/carers and provided by clinicians with well-developed skills. Staff employed within the IWAMHS are expected to identify EB practice competencies and to use these in their clinical work.

Your new role

• Empower consumers to make their own choices about their treatment and recovery with an emphasis on strengthening their internal resources to move forward.
• Support individuals to create external links in the community for ongoing support.
• Assist consumers by ensuring they actively participate in their own identified recovery goals.
• This role will work with a clinical team, requires an understanding of how mental health services work, a resilient and positive approach, and good communication skills.

About you

• Be a true team player with confidence and desire to share their wisdom, knowledge and experience.
• Lived experience of mental illness is an essential prerequisite for this role and a good understanding of peer support frameworks would be beneficial.
• Demonstrate compassion and resilience, providing peer support and information to mental health consumers in both inpatient and outpatient service settings.

Benefit of working with NorthWestern Mental Health:

• Career progression opportunities to suit your professional development goals.
• Enjoy excellent work-life balance working in a supportive and collaborative team
• Salary packaging, onsite car parking and, close to public transport.

The RMH is proud to be a workplace that champions diversity, inclusion and equality for our staff and our community. Our goal is for our people to feel safe, included and supported so that they can be at their best every single day. We encourage talented people from all backgrounds, abilities and identities to apply to our vacancies, and will consider adjustments to support such applications.

Interested?

If you are looking for a challenging role and can demonstrate the above capabilities, connect with us.

For a confidential discussion please connect via the details below.

All appointments are made subject to a satisfactory Criminal History Record Check, and where applicable, Working With Children Check (WWCC). All RMH employees are required to provide evidence of an immunisation assessment including evidence of vaccination against COVID-19 (3 doses) and Influenza with a TGA approved vaccine (mandatory for all clinical and or patient facing roles) prior to commencement. This is in accordance with the Victorian Minister of Health’s Mandatory Vaccination Orders for COVID-19 and legislated requirement for influenza vaccination.