Employment Type: Permanent full time or part time, up to 38 hours per week
Location: Fairfield community health centre
Position Classification: Health education officer graduate/ non graduate
Remuneration: $30.44 – $55.64 per hour
Requisition ID: REQ442813
Application Close Date: 12/11/2023
Interview Date Range: 15/11/2023 – 22/11/2023
Contact Details: Rebekah Buckman – 0476 859 158 | [email protected]
About the Opportunity
· Passionate about sharing your lived experience to inspire hope in others?
· Wanting to work closely with consumers and Health staff in the community?
· Interested in working in a team that has been consistently described as “incredible”, “supportive” and “the best team to work with”?
· Driven to provide high quality and safe care from a recovery and strengths based practice framework?
If you answered yes to the above, then the Therapy and Recovery Service (TARS) is looking for you. The TARS team is seeking enthusiastic Peer Workers keen to share their lived experience and work as part of our highly skilled and specialised multidisciplinary team for the SWSLHD Liverpool and Fairfield MH service.
The successful candidate will be responsible for providing peer led interventions with adult mental health consumers residing in the Liverpool and Fairfield LGAs. Support and intervention will include individual and groups, advocating for consumers and may include involvement in committees and working parties to ensure peer views are incorporated at all levels of the mental health service. The Peer Worker role is part of a larger multidisciplinary mental health recovery team. They will participate in team care planning, multidisciplinary meetings and the TARS program to ensure MH consumers accessing TARS are supported from a recovery based and nurturing environment.
You will have access to supervision, continuing professional development and educational opportunities whilst working alongside experienced and highly skilled staff!
If this role sounds like the right fit for you, we look forward to seeing your application!
What You’ll be Doing
Provide recovery orientated, evidence based peer support interventions to mental health consumers within a multidisciplinary team framework. This position also supports clinical staff in the provision of recovery orientated and consumer driven clinical practice by providing consultation in relation to the experience of living with a mental health disorder. The Peer Worker is also responsible for undertaking designated administrative tasks necessary to support service delivery.
Where You’ll Be Working
Liverpool Hospital, founded in 1813, is the major health service for south-western Sydney, providing services to the local government area of Liverpool City Council as well as district services to residents and visitors in the area. It also provides a range of state-wide services in areas such as critical care and trauma, neonatal intensive care and brain injury rehabilitation.
The Hospital provides a health service of international standing, with 23 operating theatres, capacity for 877 beds, diagnostic and imaging services, emergency and trauma care, maternity, paediatric, cancer care, mental health, ambulatory care, allied health and medical and surgical services from birth to aged care.
Liverpool Hospital is currently undergoing a major redevelopment. The $790 million Liverpool Health and Academic Precinct (LHAP) project will provide enhanced facilities and an increased capacity to meet future significant population growth for South Western Sydney.
Liverpool Hospital is a principal referral and teaching Hospital of the University of NSW and the Western Sydney University and also welcome students from over 20 universities and colleges.
Located in the heart of Liverpool City, the hospital is close to public transport, shopping centres and eateries.
How to Apply
To be considered for this position, please ensure you address the selection criteria as thoroughly as possible.
- Certificate IV in mental health peer work or willingness to complete a degree or other qualification deemed appropriate by the employer.
- Lived experienced of a mental health problem or disorder and willingness to share as part of your work
- Demonstrated knowledge of consumer led recovery and recovery principles
- Ability to work independently and as part of a multidisciplinary team and ability to build effective working relationships with a diverse range of people
- Evidence of knowledge and commitment to the application of quality improvement frameworks and evidence based practice
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills and computer literacy in a range of programs
- Demonstrated commitment to continuing professional education
- Experience in planning, delivering and evaluating group and individual interventions
- Current unrestricted Australian drivers licence (P2 Licence Acceptable) subject to obtaining NSW drivers licence within 3 months of appointment.
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Additional Information
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