An exciting opportunity exists for an enthusiastic peer worker to join the dynamic Northern Beaches Child and Youth Mental Health Service (NB CYMHS). NB CYMHS is a multi-disciplinary community mental health service providing specialist assessment and intervention to children and young people experiencing severe and complex mental health difficulties through a range of individual, family based and group therapy interventions.
Employment Type: Permanent Part Time
Position Classification: Health Educucation Officer
Remuneration: $28.68 – $42.26 per hour
Hours Per Week: 20
Requisition ID: REQ355545
Where you’ll be working
Primarily based at Brookvale Community Health Centre, the NB CYMHS community clinicians will also provide clinical services from the Mona Vale and Dalwood community health centre locations as required.
What you’ll be doing
The peer worker will support the implementation and delivery of Child and Youth Mental Health (CYMHS) services within the recovery framework. This framework requires that services demonstrate a culture and language of hope and optimism, be person centred and holistic, support personal recovery, develop a workforce and organisational culture that is conducive to recovery and make active choices regarding social inclusion.
Peer workers will use their lived experience and work collaboratively with other CYMHS staff to support and advocate for children and young people, their families and support people through purposeful sharing of their lived experience, inspiring hope that recovery is possible for all, modelling hope and wellbeing strategies that support recovery and challenging stigma associated with mental health problems.
Peer workers also have a role in educating clinical staff and providing representative input into systemic issues through service development / improvement activities.
People of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander background encouraged to apply.
Candidates will need to meet the following criteria:
- Consistently demonstrates behaviours that reinforce the CORE Values of our organisation; Collaboration, Openness, Respect and Empowerment. Demonstrates these behaviours with all stakeholders; colleagues, direct reports, as well as our patients and consumers, and those that care for them.
- Lived experience of a mental health problem or of supporting a child or young person with a mental health problem and ability and willingness to share aspects of your recovery experience with others, individually and in groups.
- Demonstrated ability to build and foster effective working relationships with a diverse range of people, including people using CYMHS services, their families and support people, clinicians, managers and community members.
- Understanding of the issues faced by children, young people, their families and support people that are receiving or involved with acute or sub-acute mental health care.
- Demonstrated ability to manage challenging situations.
- Have completed or are willing to complete, within a reasonable time-frame, a Certificate IV in Mental Health Peer Work.
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For role related queries or questions contact Noel Meredith on [email protected]
All NSW Health workers are required to have two doses of a COVID-19 vaccine, as defined by NSW Health. Employees working in a clinical area or are required to attend clinical areas are considered category A. Category A positions are required to provide evidence of having received three doses of COVID-19 vaccine in accordance with the Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (TGA) and meet the requirements of the Occupational Assessment Screening and Vaccination Against Specified Infectious Diseases Policy Directive.
Acceptable proof of vaccination is the Australian Immunisation Register (AIR) Immunisation History Statement or AIR COVID-19 Digital Certificate.
Applications Close: 20 November 2022
Tentative Interview Dates: 23 November 2022