• Use lived experience to provide services to families and carers supporting people experiencing mental ill health & alcohol and other drug challenges
• Fixed term until 30 June 2025| Full time or Part time
• Ballarat and Central Highlands locations

About the Position 

The Mental Health and Wellbeing Connect (formally Grampians Family and Carer-led Centre) will operate across the Grampians region through a partnership with Ballarat Community Health and Grampians Community Health.  Families, carers and supporters seeking information, advice, referral and peer support will be able to access Centre-based services, receive outreach support and support through telephone and other virtual platforms. The establishment of family and carer-led centres, now known as Mental Health and Wellbeing Connect, is a key part of the Victorian Mental Health Reforms.

We are seeking enthusiastic Family and Carer Peer Support Workers for fixed term opportunities in the Ballarat area, fulltime or part time. You will bring family/carer lived or living experience to provide authentic, peer-led support and assistance to family and carers. As a team you will deliver services utilising a relational recovery approach, trauma informed practice and peer support.

Please be advised that roles are being advertised concurrently in partnership with Grampians Community Health. If you have applied for this role within both organisations please note that your application will be managed independently by each respective business.

What you’ll bring

• Lived or living experience as a family member, carer or supporter of someone who is experiencing, or has experienced mental ill-health and/or substance use challenges.
• Tertiary qualifications in Mental Health, Psychology, Social Work, Occupational Therapy, Community Services, or other professional field designated by Mind are preferred, and/or equivalent experience in a similar industry.
• Completion of Intentional Peer Support Core and/or Advanced training will also be considered as an alternative to tertiary qualifications.
• Candidates who do not have either of these qualifications but have significant experience in providing support and advocacy from a family/carer perspective, are very welcome to apply and training and development opportunities can be discussed. 

Interested?

To apply, please complete an online application form and attach a copy of your CV, along with a cover letter outlining:

1. What are the key needs of family and carers of people with mental ill-health and substance use challenges in your local community?
2. How could you use your experience as a family member, or carer, of someone with mental health and substance use challenges to support and empower families or carers in the local community?

Applications must be submitted by 11pm Tuesday 14 November 2023.. Please contact the person below if you require more information.

Rael Cartledge – Service Manager
Email: [email protected]

Phone: 0455 522 061

About the company

Mind Australia is one of the country’s leading community-managed specialist mental health service providers with a range of residential, mobile outreach, centre based and online services. We have been supporting people living with the day-to-day impacts of mental illness, as well as their families, friends and carers for over 40 years.

We provide practical and motivational support that helps people to develop the skills they need to move on, thrive and improve the quality of their lives. It’s an approach to mental health and wellbeing that looks at the whole person in the context of their daily life. Mind is committed to diversity and social inclusion.

Benefits

• Attractive Not For Profit Salary Packaging benefits up to $15,900pa.
• Flexible work arrangements to suit your lifestyle!
• Generous annual leave loading benefits.
• Monthly Accumulated Day Off (Full time employees only)

Mind strongly encourages applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, people with a lived experience of mental ill health and recovery, and applicants from all cultures, genders, sexualities, bodies, abilities, spiritualities, ages and backgrounds. The successful applicant is required to complete comprehensive reference and background checking prior to employment, including a Working with Children Check, NDIS Workers Screening Check and the ability to obtain vaccinations against COVID-19.

 PD Family and Carer Peer Support Worker (Grampians FCLC) 20230906.pdf