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Job description:
We are looking for compassionate and dedicated Consumer Peer Support Workers for our Noogal Clinic at Mill Park. This is a part time position, working 64 hours per fortnight. It is a Monday to Friday role and may require to work after hours in the future.
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Noogal Clinic is an integrated community mental health service which provides recovery oriented mental health care to adults aged 16-65 years old within the Northern catchment. The team works with consumers residing in the community throughout the continuum of their care. Clinicians at Noogal Clinic use their clinical mental health knowledge, skills, expertise to the assessment, and delivery of support, treatment and provision of targeted interventions to the consumers of the service.
We’d love to hear from you if you would like to discuss the role further. We also encourage you to visit the clinic to help you in the decision makign process.
The Role:
The role of consumer peer support worker involves:
- Provision of peer support and information to mental health consumers linked to our community teams.
- Welcoming and support consumers when they are in the clinic.
- Contributing your understanding of recovery and your experience of recovery from mental illness with consumers attending the clinic.
- Working closely with other lived experience and clinical staff of NAMHS.
About you:
- You have been / or are a first-hand user of mental health services.
- Ability to contribute of your unique range of personal skills and knowledge to the consumer group. Having a desire to connect, nurture and support the journey of other consumers
- Formal qualifications with relevance to Consumer Peer Work are desirable but not essential.
Next Steps . . .
If this opportunity sounds like the next step in your career, then we would love to hear from you. Please click on the ‘Apply’ button and follow the prompts.
For further details, please refer to the relevant Position Description below.
Acute Community Intervention Clinician – Position Description
Alternatively, please contact:
Ancy Joy ( Program Manager) – 0409 931 774, or Benny Sebastian ( Team Leader) – 0426 257 153
Applications close 8 November 2022
We offer:
We provide a vibrant and fast-paced workplace, attractive salary packaging benefits, work life balance.