Peer Support Worker – Anglicare Mental Health Services

• Are you passionate about using your lived experience of recovery from mental illness to instil confidence and hope in others about their own recovery journey?
• Are you passionate about serving and supporting people in the community?
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• Be a part of warm & friendly team culture!

About The Role

The Peer Support Worker draws from personal experiences of mental illness and recovery to model hope, encouraging clients towards a fulfilling life. This role involves building rapport, inspiring hope, and utilising a skill set developed through lived experience and formal training to benefit clients. 

This is a Permanent Part Time, 3 days a week role based at Nowra.

Key responsibilities (not limited to):

• Ensure the best possible outcome for participants is achieved by assisting them to establish strong links to formal and informal supports within the local area.
• Seek to learn about the clients’ interests, their connections to family, friends etc and work with the client in building their capacity to be part of their community.
• Assist clients to connect with appropriate community supports, promoting clients’ rights and access to services.
• Provide emotional support to clients by constructively applying lessons learnt through your own lived experience, i.e., be a bearer of hope that recovery can and does occur.
• Share and discuss common and mutual experiences with people accessing services that support the development of safe and trusting relationships.
• Support clients at their immediate point of crisis and assist with the development of a safety plan to allow the person to return home safely.
• Maintain a personal strength-based, trauma-informed and recovery-oriented outlook that engenders a sense of hope and resilience in clients.
• Assist and guide staff with client intake and referral processes.
• Provide support within outreach settings.
• Support in recovery planning and goal setting with clients.
• Ensure documentation meets organisational, legislative and funding requirements by completing and maintaining appropriate participant documentation and statistical information.

About You:

• Relevant tertiary qualifications such as Certificate 3 in Community Services, Mental Health or Peer Work or studying towards higher level qualification.
• Lived experience of mental illness, mental health crisis or caring for someone living with a mental illness and demonstrated experience of recovery. Ability to draw upon personal recovery journey to inform work.
• NSW Unrestricted Drivers licence
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Experience in similar role as a peer support worker desirable
• Ability to establish relationships and maintain appropriate boundaries with people accessing the service and their families.
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively in a multi-disciplinary team environment, as well as independently.
• Covid19 vaccination is strongly recommended
• Valid paid Working with Children Check (WWC)

Benefits of joining Anglicare:

• A warm, welcoming culture
• Ongoing training and development with a focus on career growth
• Experienced and passionate leadership team who are supportive and consultative
• Not-for-profit salary packaging benefits – reducing your taxable income by $15,900 plus an additional $2,650 for salary packaging accommodation, meals and entertainment.
• Paid parental leave.
• Employee Assistance Program – Free, voluntary and confidential counselling service
• Fitness Passport
• Access to discounts from over 400 retailers on our rewards program

About Us

For over 160 years Anglicare has been serving people in need – providing care to older people and services to the vulnerable. We began because of people like you, people who saw a need in the community and who were compelled to make a difference. People motivated by Christian love and a passion to serve.

Build your career in a for-purpose aged care, retirement living and community service market leader with over 4,000 staff.

To find out more please visit: www.anglicare.org.au

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants are encouraged to apply.

Anglicare – Jesus Christ honoured, lives enriched and communities strengthened.

Anglicare is committed to ensuring the safety and wellbeing of children and young people and has zero tolerance of child abuse.

Applicants are encouraged to apply as soon as possible as applications may be reviewed prior to the closing date; and as such the closing date is subject to change without notice.