“Our vision is full citizenship for all people living with mental health challenges in Australia”

About the Role

• Part-Time Permanent (0.6 FTE)
• Classification: Consumer Service Delivery Level 4, with a salary range of $93,959 – $98,207 pro rata per annum + Superannuation
• Salary Packaging arrangements providing tax benefits available for living and entertainment expenses increasing your take home income where part of your wage is paid tax free each pay, savings thousands in tax each year
• Location: Southern Wellbeing Hub, Morphett Vale SA.

About Neami National

Neami National is a community mental health service supporting people living with mental illness to improve their health, live independently and pursue a life based on their own strengths, values and goals.

We have been providing mental health support for over 30 years. We were founded on an alliance between professionals, individuals and their families. Collaborative recovery remains at the heart of who we are today.

About your new role

The Peer Support Lead is an exciting opportunity to lead Peer Practice and model Lived Experience leadership within the multidisciplinary team of the Southern Wellbeing Hub. The Peer Support Lead will coach, mentor and support a small team of Peer Support Workers (PSWs) walk alongside people accessing the Southern Hub to understand and respond to people’s need through a process of mutual listening, learning, being, and doing.

The Peer Support Lead and PSWs apply the Lived Experience lens as their primary way of working. Drawing on the National Lived Experience (Peer) Workforce Guidelines, the Lived Experience lens is:

• Learnings from personal experience of mental health challenges, distress and periods of healing, which may include service use
• Collective knowledge of universal lived experiences such as stigma, marginalisation, loss of power, and system hurt, as well as hope, healing, and that personal recovery is real
• Professional principles and values such as mutuality, intersectionality, autonomy, hope and sharing power
• And the history of the Consumer movement, advocacy, and actions

The Peer Support Lead will also model and encourage the sharing of Lived Experience practice wisdom to strengthen a team approach, collaborate across disciplines, build team culture, and motivate quality relationships and performance.

What will Neami offer in return?

• Generous leave entitlements including paid parental leave, Gratis Leave and Wellness leave
• Professional development through regular Practice Development sessions and coaching with your supervisor
• Ongoing extensive in-house Learning and Development Programs to encourage learning and skill-building
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) through Benestar – access a holistic health and wellness offering of supports and resources to Neami staff and their immediate family
• Work flexibility arrangements available for maintaining your work-life balance

What you will bring to the role?

• Lived experience of mental health challenges and journey of wellbeing and ability to apply learnings as your primary way of working
• Understanding of Lived Experience (Peer) principles
• Experience in managing teams or in leadership positions
• Minimum Cert IV qualification in Lived Experience (e.g. Cert IV Mental Health Peer Work) or related field (e.g. Psychology, Human Services, Community Services), or complete a qualification within 2 years of employment

What the role requires:

• National Criminal History Check (Police check) – disclosable outcomes considered
• Current Working with Children Check required before commencement of work
• Current Drivers licence
• Australian Working Rights

How to apply:

The terms and conditions of the role are listed in the position description. If you have any further questions not addressed in the advertising words or position description, please contact:

Linda Sims | Mental Health Clinical Service Manager | [email protected]

Applications Close: Tuesday 17 October 2023

Be Yourself – Neami values and celebrates diversity including multidisciplinary teams and the unique backgrounds, experiences, and contributions that each person brings to our community. First Nations people, those identifying as LGBTQIA+, people with disabilities and culturally and linguistically diverse people are encouraged to apply. Our aim is to create a workforce that is accessible, inclusive and reflects the community in which we live.