We are recruiting for a family/carer peer worker to join our peer work team, providing support to carers and family member of consumer who have accessed our Youth Unit in Dandenong Hospital. This role requires lived experience of caring for someone (a close friend or family member) with a significant mental illness. (Please note, this role has not been created for persons who have worked only as a carer in a paid employment capacity).
The role will require the successful applicant to work across a 5 day Monday – Friday roster.
About Monash Health
Monash Health provides a world of healthcare across south eastern Melbourne, uniquely integrating primary, secondary and tertiary health services as well as world-renowned research and teaching facilities. We employee more than 18,000 staff who work across 40 care locations. In Monash Health your own growth and development is important and with us you can really be your best. For more information please visit www.monashhealth.org.
About our Emergency Services at Monash Health
Monash Health is the largest public health service in Victoria, employing over 18,000 people across a range of specialities.
Monash Health Emergency Departments treat over 150,000 emergency patients a year at Monash Medical Centre Clayton campus, Dandenong Hospital and Casey Hospital. Patients have access to a full range of treatment options, including intensive care.
About The Role
Based in our Dandenong Youth Unit, you will work as part of the multidisciplinary team to provide valuable peer support to family members and carers of consumers during their inpatient admission and for up to 28 days post discharge. This position will be based at Dandenong hospital, but you may be required to work across our other sites (Clayton and Casey hospitals)
About You
You will have lived experience of caring for someone with a significant mental illness, and have the ability to share your lived experience, as appropriate, to support other carers to help built understanding, hope, and resilience in line with peer support principles.
What You Need
- Relevant lived experience (aligned to position description)
- Ability and willingness to share own lived experience as appropriate to support others
- Australian working rights
What We Offer:
- access to Monash Health in-house learning portals and external training to develop your peer work skills & knowledge base
- mentorship, supervision and group supervision.
- support to attend relevant forums & conferences
- a supportive working environment
In addition, you will have access to benefits including salary packaging to increase your take-home pay, access to subsidised onsite staff car parking and gym, uniform and the Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
How to Apply
Monash Health recognises the value of equal employment opportunity and is committed to patient safety and promoting fairness, equity and diversity in the workplace. At Monash Health we are relentless in our pursuit of excellence and work to our six guiding principles.
Applications will only be accepted via the Monash Health online Mercury System only. Email applications will not be considered.
Existing Monash Health Employees should apply using your Monash Health employee account. For any queries regarding employee accounts contact Recruitment Services by email – [email protected].
Offers of employment can only be made once all required probity checks have been completed. These include:
- reference checks;
- a clear Police Check conducted within the last three months;
- a current Victorian Employee Working with Children’s Check (or proof of payment for same);and
- proof of immunisation.
A request to conduct probity checks does not guarantee that an offer of employment will be made.
As part of our selection process, you may be invited by email to participate in an on-camera video interview.
To comply with Victorian Public Health directions, all employees working in the Public Health system must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and Influenza and are required to provide acceptable evidence of their vaccination status. To support your application, and to be compliant with any public health orders in place at the time of, and during, your employment, you will be required to upload evidence of full vaccination. Acceptable evidence is a copy of a Government Official Immunisation History Statement. It is a requirement of Monash Health to collect, record and hold vaccination information. Offers of employment will only be made to candidates who can provide acceptable evidence that they meet full vaccination status.