• Join a supportive and inclusive team and service who value your contribution
• Leadership opportunity to develop your peer worker skills in a specialist service
• Permanent Full Time – 80 hours per fortnight (+ ADO, hours negotiable)

About our organisation

Sitting within one of Victoria’s six regional health centres, Barwon Health serves the community of Greater Geelong and beyond. We serve over 500,000 people through the efforts of over 8,000 staff and more than 1200 volunteers.  Our Mental Health Drugs & Alcohol Service is entering a new phase of co-design of our service system with people who access our services and our wider community. This will build on our nationally recognized unique cultural approach to the challenges of recovery oriented service delivery to redesign our service system.

Our service is internationally recognised for its innovative clinical programs and integrated models of practice that are client centred, accessible and family inclusive.

About the facility

The Mental Health Therapy Services develops and provides individual and group peer support, specialist assessment, consultation and evidenced-based psychotherapies as part of consumer’s treatment within Barwon Health’s Community Mental Health services. This includes dedicated peer workers, allied health inputs, ASD services, comprehensive psychotherapy programs for personality disorders and/or a history of trauma, education on personality disorder, and a clinical psychology trainee program. The service contributes to increasing capacity across MHDAS to work with people with personality and trauma.

About the Role

As guided by the Lived Experience Discipline Lead and the Operational Manager of the Therapy Services team, the Senior Consumer Peer Worker will:

• Provide individual and peer support to people with a lived experience of mental distress who access therapy services
• Work collaboratively with therapists and peer workers to develop effective peer supports
• Provide supervisory input to peer workers and lead peer program development

This position plays a vital role in supporting the ongoing development of peer work, voice of lived experience in the tertiary mental health system, and integration within clinical services.

About the Culture

You will be working within an innovative, passionate multidisciplinary team who are a wealth of knowledge. You will receive support and guidance from team members and management who work within the Barwon Health values- respect, compassion, commitment, accountability and innovation.

Barwon Health staff benefits

• Relocation assistance & packages available
• Flexible working arrangements
• Professional Development
• Doorstep to the Great Ocean Road, Bellarine Peninsula and the Surf Coast
• Opportunity to purchase additional leave and take leave without pay
• Access to employee wellness facility
• Attractive salary packaging benefits!
  • Living Expenses capped at $9,010 and includes repayments on mortgages, credit cards, personal loans and rental payments
  • Meal Entertainment & Accommodation capped at $2,650 and includes food and drink consumed in a social or entertainment settings and some accommodation expenditure

Diversity and Inclusion

At Barwon Health we are committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce where we value each person’s uniqueness. We embrace diverse life experiences and the perspectives of our people, whilst providing high-quality health care to all members of our community, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, religion, cultural background, disability, or sexual orientation.

If we can assist you with any reasonable adjustments in order to submit your application for this role, please contact [email protected] noting your preferred method of communication and a member of the team will be in touch.

Applicants for this role must be fully vaccinated for Covid-19 and influenza and meet the requirements of the Barwon Health immunisation policy.

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