Position Title: Mental Health Peer Worker
Employment Type: Permanent, Part time
Hours per week: 32 hours
Position Grade: Health Education Officer (Non-Graduate/Graduate)
Salary: $60,373.00 – $110,326.00 base per annum (pro rata)
Enterprise Agreement: The Named NSW (Non-Declared) Affiliated Health Organisations’ Professional & Associated Staff Agreement 2022
Department Name: St Vincent’s Inpatient Mental Health Service
About us:
St Vincent’s Hospital Sydney is a leading not-for-profit organisation providing health services to our community. Guided by our values of compassion, excellence, integrity and justice, we promote a culture of diversity and inclusion and empower our people to learn, grow and innovate.
Benefits of working at St Vincent’s include:
- Generous salary packaging and Fitness Passport for eligible staff
- Opportunity to access a large range of clinical and non-clinical education programs
- Supported post graduate opportunities within applicable fields
- Career development opportunities across the St Vincent’s Health Australia Network
- Employee Assistance Program
- Work/Life balance
About the role:
Ther role of the Mental Health Peer Worker has been developed for people who have a lived experience of mental health services and personal recovery. The international evidence demonstrates that embedding a peer support workforce within a mental health service has a number of benefits to a consumers recovery.
Mental health Peers Workers use their personal journey to support consumers by providing individual consultations, education and group interventions aimed at facilitating recovery principles of hope, choice, self-determination and social connectedness. The Mental Health Peerr Worker works along side clinicians and is an integral part of the clinical team, contributing to care planning and liaising with internal and external stakeholders to ensure the best outcome for the consumer.
Our Culture:
St Vincent’s is committed to employing a workforce that reflects the community we care for. We strongly encourage applications from people that are Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, culturally diverse, sexuality or gender diverse and/or living with disability.
Employment with St Vincent’s is subject to you having current immunity status that complies with the Occupational Assessment, Screening & Vaccination against Specified Infectious Diseases – NSW Health Policy Directive (PD2023_030). Appointment and ongoing employment will be subject to continued compliance with this policy directive.
About you:
We are seeking a skilled and energetic Mental Health Peer Worker who possess a passion for person centred care. We welcome applications from people who are keen to work as a part of a multi-disciplinary team focussed on delivering excellent care to consumers experiencing an acute phase of mental illness. We are looking for someone with outstanding communications skills and emotional intelligence who can use their own experience of recovery to support the recovery of others. The successful applicant will have an ability to monitor and maintain personal wellbeing and communicate challenges with team leaders and managers.
Application Instructions:
To have you application considered you are required to upload a current CV/Resume as well as a separate cover letter/document addressing the ‘Selection Criteria’ as below. Internal applicants i.e. current employees of St Vincent’s Hospital or an entity of SVHA are required to apply via their Workday account.
Selection Criteria:
1. Personal integrity and demonstrated commitment to the Philosophy, Mission and Values of Mary Aikenhead Ministries and St Vincent’s Health Australia
2. Completed a degree from recognised university or College of Advanced Education.
3. Completion of the Certificate IV in Mental Health Peer Work or willingness to complete same.
4. Lived experience of secondary mental health services and able to reflect on personal experience of recovery.
5. Good written, verbal and non-verbal communication skills e.g. ability to communicate their personal experience of recovery.
6. Understanding of the issues and concerns of mental health service users and able to maintain professional boundaries.
7. Experience supporting people with a mental illness within a personal recovery context.
8. Experience of working in a team environment and understanding the dynamics of same.
Applications Close: 05 October 2023