Employment Type: Casual
Position Classification: Health Educ Off Grad/ Non Graduate
Remuneration: $28.68 – $53.88 per hour
Hours Per Week: As required
Requisition ID: REQ335853
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. Come and join our casual pool at Sutherland mental Health Service 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, Sutherland Mental Health Service, located on The Sutherland Hospital campus, Caringbah.
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 and provide post discharge support from Mental Health Inpatient Units.
Based in community mental health centres, the Peer Support Worker role will span the full range of mental health settings through providing assertive in-reach support to consumers in Mental Health Inpatient Units and follow through support with consumers in in the community.
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.
- Certificate IV in Mental Health Peer Work or willingness and commitment to obtain. For Graduate Health Education Officers, additional relevant health degree required.
- Experience working in a Mental Health Peer Worker role, with the ability to plan, implement and evaluate group and individual peer led activities.
- Demonstrated knowledge of current local, State and National legislation and standards relevant to mental health.
- Demonstrated knowledge of and commitment to consumer led recovery principles and trauma informed care
- Excellent communication (verbal and written) and interpersonal skills with the ability to collaborate effectively within the multi-disciplinary team and with a diverse range of stakeholders including consumers, families and service providers
- Demonstrated ability to work independently with minimal supervision, as well as part of a multidisciplinary team.
- Demonstrated excellent computer skills (proficient in MS Office applications)
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 Belinda West on [email protected]
Applications Close: 02 October 2022