Make a Difference Through Lived Experience and Use Your Story to Support Others' Recovery Journey!
Join our team in a temporary full-time Senior Peer Worker role, using your lived experience to support recovery, deliver education, and mentor others within a community mental health setting.
About This Role
Your new role: As a Senior Peer Worker in the Continuing Care Team, you will use your lived experience to inspire hope, support recovery, and promote person‐centred care while working across multidisciplinary teams.
In This Role, You Will
* Deliver peer support, education, and recovery‐focused programs
* Contribute to service improvement and team initiatives
* Support consumers to build resilience and community connections
* Share your lived experience to promote recovery
* Mentor Peer Workers and co‐facilitate training
* Advocate for consumers and support system navigation
About You
You are passionate about supporting others and confident in using your lived experience to drive positive change.
You Will Bring
* Lived experience of mental health and/or substance use
* Ability to share your recovery journey appropriately
* Strong communication and teamwork skills
* Experience or interest in peer support or mentoring
* Understanding of recovery‐oriented care
* Basic digital skills and a commitment to ongoing learning
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What We Can Offer You
* We offer a family‐friendly work environment that supports you in making the most of Queensland's laid‐back lifestyle.
* We are renowned for teaching and research excellence with strong relations with Queensland's leading tertiary institutions.
* We want to empower you to build a long‐term career, with countless opportunities to learn and grow, no matter your role.
* You'll have all the benefits of working for Queensland's world‐class public health system including generous leave entitlements, attractive salary and remuneration packages, salary packaging and access to relevant professional development allowances and/or leave, study and research assistance, corporate discounts and employee wellness programs.
About Us
The PAH Community Care Teams are multidisciplinary teams providing community based mental health care to adults aged 18 to 65 with severe and enduring mental health issues. This involves assessment, treatment and the delivery of individualised interventions utilising an AIMS model approach within the consumer recovery framework. In collaboration with the consumer, goals are identified, and a care plan is developed. Consumers engage with the service over a period of time which is flexible depending on their needs and are provided with support with their transition through referrals to internal and external agencies as required.
INTEGRITY | COMPASSION | ACCOUNTABILITY | RESPECT | ENGAGEMENT | EXCELLENCE
Our values were created by employees for employees to shape our culture and inspire positive interactions in the workplace. Diversity of ideas, skills, traditions, and customs is celebrated as one of our greatest strengths. Having a workforce that reflects and understands the needs and expectations of our community is important to delivering safe, kinder, and more inclusive care.
We recognise our strength comes from the diversity of our people and so we encourage people of all genders, ethnicities, ages, abilities, languages, sexual orientation, and family responsibilities to apply.
We are better together.
Further information
We are committed to building inclusive cultures in the Queensland public sector that respect and promote human rights and diversity.
Applicants are encouraged to apply online. Please review the Role Description for more information on application process requirements. Agency referrals will not be accepted for this position.
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