Peer Mentor – Mental Health
Aspire Recovery Connection
Adelaide SA
$40 – $45 per hour
Apply Now: https://seek.com.au/job/81242755?type=standout&ref=search-standalone&origin=cardTitle
We are holding two info sessions for this role on Tuesday 14th January at 5:30 PM and Wednesday 22nd January at 5:30 PM – if you want to know more about this role and attend, please email [email protected] or register for an info session at:
Tuesday 14/1 – https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/aspire-recovery-connection-peer-mentor-info-session-tickets-1143552419069
Wednesday 22/1 – https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/aspire-recovery-connection-peer-mentor-info-session-tickets-1143554806209
Applications
Submit your CV along with a cover letter that outlines:
- your lived experience of mental and emotional distress
- your journey of recovery
- how you will draw on your own lived experience and recovery journey to support others
About us
Aspire Recovery Connection is a for-purpose organization, delivering mental health services in the community. We are an authentic lived experience team providing recovery-oriented outreach support for people living with significant mental and emotional distress. Social justice, human rights, and compassion centered support is at the core of our business. Our team is supported and valued with regular career development and led by lived experience leaders who are here to make a real difference.
As a member of our Peer Mentor team you will support and engage with the community whom we serve, provide authentic peer connection and ensure our services are of the highest standards. This is an outreach role, supporting people out and about in the community and building relationships together
Values & Culture
We pride ourselves on the quality of both the support we provide people and the culture we offer as a workplace for our staff. In our most recent staff survey, 100% of ARC staff said they ‘strongly agreed’ (83%) or ‘agreed’ that they were satisfied with ARC’s workplace culture. Our staff also recently won 2 Lived Experience Awards at the Mental Health Coalition of SA’s Lived Experience Awards for 2024 for the excellent peer support we have provided our community.
Tasks & responsibilities
- Offer humility, compassion and connection to build trust and rapport
- Support people to activate their choice and control and connect with NDIS services to support their wellbeing
- Contribute ideas towards continuous quality improvement and innovation
- Work from a lived experience, human rights and compassion centered framework to support people on their recovery journey.
- Help people to uphold their human rights and navigate the mental health system towards recovery
- Work with family members and other supports in your people’s best interest
Benefits
- Supportive environment that offers warmth, connection and emotional safety
- 100% Lived Experience organisation
- Professional development opportunities
- Flexible working arrangements
- Regular team building
- Values that are upheld with everything we do
Qualifications & experience
- Australian driver’s license (minimum P’s), reliable car and comprehensive car insurance
- DHS/NDIS screening clearance
- Experience in peer support mental health services is desirable
- Lived experience of mental health and recovery
- Minimum qualification required is Certificate III in Community Services or equivalent
- First aid certificate is desirable