Employment Type: Casual
Position Classification: Health Educ Off Grad /Non Grad
Remuneration: $28.68 – $53.88 per hour
Hours Per Week: As required
Requisition ID: REQ335821
Are you a mental health consumer with lived experience who wants to assist and support other consumers on their journery to recovery? You will be working in an innovative and supportive team of like-minded peers and clinicians. Join our casual pool at ESMHS and work as much or as little as you like!
You will have the opportunity to pick up available shifts across our various teams providing you the fleixibility of work/life balance.
Where you’ll be working
Community Mental Health, Eastern Suburbs Mental Health Service, located on the Prince of Wales Hospital campus, Randwick.
What you’ll be doing
The vision for South Eastern Sydney Local Health District (SESLHD) is ‘exceptional people, healthier lives’. SESLHD is committed to enabling our community to be healthy and well, and to providing the best possible compassionate care when people need it.
The Peer Support Worker will draw upon their lived experience of mental health challenges and their personal recovery journey, to develop empathic relationships and support personal recovery for mental health consumers of the South Eastern Sydney Local Health District (SESLHD). The goal of the position is to support the consumer through their mental health service journey by providing individual consultations, education and group interventions aimed at facilitating recovery principles of hope, choice, self-determination and social connectedness. Key focus areas include:physical health for mental health consumers, supporting consumers through their initial referral and engagement process, working with consumers and the treating team to prevent hospital admissions, and to offer post discharge support from Mental Health Inpatient Units. Based in community mental health centres, the Peer Support Worker role will span across the full range of community mental health settings.
SESLHD is committed to creating a workplace that reflects the diversity of our community. This will help ensure our employees, our patients and their carers, feel supported. We encourage people from different backgrounds to apply.
Employment of a temporary visa holder may only occur if no suitable permanent resident or citizen of Australia has been identified for this position following suitable labour market testing.
All NSW Health workers are required to have completed a primary course of a COVID-19 vaccine which has been approved or recognised by the Therapeutics Goods Administration (TGA). New applicants must have completed the vaccination course prior to commencement with NSW Health, or provide an approved medical contraindication certificate certifying the worker cannot have any approved COVID-19 vaccines available in NSW.
Acceptable proof of vaccination is the Australian Immunisation Register (AIR) Immunisation History Statement or AIR COVID-19 Digital Certificate. Booster doses are highly recommended for all health care workers who have completed the primary course of COVID-19 vaccinations. Please provide proof of booster vaccination if available.
Selection Criteria
- Personal experience as a consumer of mental health services and ability to utilise the lived experience to support others in their own mental health recovery journey.
- Capacity and commitment to work towards consumer peer worker qualifications or equivalent for a Non-Graduate Health Education Officer or relevant health degree for a Graduate Health Education Officer.
- Experience working in a peer support worker role, with the ability to plan, implement and evaluate group and individual peer led interventions.
- Demonstrated knowledge of current local, State and National legislation and standards relevant to mental health
- Demonstrated commitment to consumer led recovery principles including the physical health care of mental health consumers.
- Demonstrated effective interpersonal and communication skills including the ability to provide quality written documentation through the use of proficient IT skills.
- Demonstrated ability to work independently with minimal supervision, as well as part of a multidisciplinary team.
- Current Drivers Licence (with a willingness to travel in accordance with the demands of the position).
Need more information?
1) Click here for the Position Description and SESLHD Expected Standards
2) Find out more about applying for this position
For role related queries or questions contact Steve Adei on [email protected]
Applications Close: 25th September 2022