Employment Type: Permanent Full Time/ Part-Time
Position Classification: Health Education Officer Graduate
Remuneration: $33.06 – $53.88 per hour plus superannuation
Hours Per Week: 38
Requisition ID: REQ358255
Do you possess lived experience and are a Peer Worker wanting to provide care and support to vulnerable consumers who are in crisis in the community setting? Come and join our innovative multidisciplinary Assertive Suicide Prevention Outreach team (SPOT). Sound like you?
Where you’ll be working
Community Mental Health, Sutherland Mental Health Service located on The Sutherland Hospital campus Caringbah
SESLHD MHS locations
What you’ll be doing
The vision for South Eastern Sydney Local Health District (SESLHD) is ‘exceptional care, 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 Assertive Suicide Prevention Outreach Peer 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 consultations, education and interventions aimed at facilitating recovery principles of hope, choice, self-determination
and social connectedness.
The Assertive Suicide Prevention Outreach Peer Worker is part of a multidisciplinary team within the Community Mental Health Service. Utilising telehealth and face-to-face outreach, the role involves a range of support and engagement activities with consumers within a multidisciplinary team for people experiencing a situational crisis of suicidal distress in the community. The service provides, consultation, comprehensive assessments, safety planning, clinical formulation, brief interventions, linkage with community resources or referrals to Community Mental Health teams. The hours of work involve a 7 day rotating roster with afternoon and evening shifts.
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). Additionally, Category A workers are required to receive a booster dose three months after completing the primary course of COVID-19 vaccinations. New applicants must have completed the vaccination course prior to commencement with NSW Health, or provide an approved medical contraindication certificate (IM011 immunisation medical exemption form) 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.
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.
Support for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander candidates
We welcome applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander candidates and we have an Aboriginal Employment Consultant that can provide support. If you have any questions or would like guidance on the recruitment process, please contact the SESLHD Aboriginal Employment Team via email to: [email protected]
Selection Criteria
- Personal lived experience of suicidal crisis, and ability to meaningfully and purposefully use lived experience to provide peer support to people at risk of suicide
- Certificate IV in Mental Health Peer Work or willingness to successfully complete within 18 months. For Graduate Health Education Officers, additional relevant health degree required
- Experience working in a Mental Health Peer Worker role with the capacity to use recovery orientated and trauma informed principles in providing support to people at risk of suicide
- Understanding of the suicide prevention sector and ability to utilise appropriate suicide prevention support such as crisis response, safety planning and managing risk
- Demonstrated knowledge of and commitment to recovery oriented services, trauma informed care and lived experience involvement in service design, implementation and evaluation
- 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 Leonie Keogh on [email protected]
Applications Close:11 Dec 2022