Job Requisition ID: 3546
- Legal Entity: Monash Health
- Location: Clayton, VIC, AU, 3168
- Employment Type: Part Time
- Posting Date: 11 Feb 2025
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**Join our team as a Peer Worker (Level 2) on a permanent, part-time basis to work for the Monash Health Gender Clinic based in the Victorian Pride Centre, St Kilda**
**About our Lived & Living Experience Workforce at Monash Health**
Monash Health is one of the largest Lived and Living Experience Workforce employers in Victoria, encompassing both Consultants and Peer Workers. Our Peer Workforce, which includes both Consumer and Family/Carer Peer Workers, is integral to several of our inpatient units, community teams, emergency departments, and drug and alcohol services. We are dedicated to fostering a safe and supportive workplace, reinforced by strong professional leadership, reflective supervision, and opportunities for connection through co-reflection, employee forums, and ongoing professional development.
**About the Monash Health Gender Clinic**
The Monash Health Gender Clinic is a state-wide service that provides client centred care for transgender, gender diverse and non-binary (TGDNB) people. The Gender Clinic comprises a specialist team of psychiatrists, psychologists, peer workers, research and administrative staff.
**About the Role**
The Consumer Peer Worker will provide support to consumers in the Monash Health Gender Clinic. As an integral and highly valued member of the gender clinic multidisciplinary team, Peer Workers draw on their own lived experience of gender incongruence and use it with intent and purpose to support others. The role is primarily based at the Monash Health tenancy within the Victorian Pride Centre in St Kilda, but will require travel at times to other campuses of Monash Health in the South Eastern suburbs of Victoria
**About You**
As a designated consumer lived experience role, you will have a declared personal experience of gender incongruence, and experience of the seeking help within Victorian health systems. You possess a deep understanding of the gender journey through your own lived experience as a consumer, and a genuine commitment to the TGDNB community. With a strong focus on inclusion, diversity, and person-centred care, you bring excellent communication and interpersonal skills to your work. Your enthusiasm, compassion, and ability to collaborate effectively within a multidisciplinary team set you apart. You are driven to pursue a meaningful and purposeful career, with a desire to grow as a lived experience health professional.
**What You Need**:
To ensure your success in this role you will demonstrate the following key skills, experience and knowledge (see attached Position Description for a complete list of requirements):
- Declared personal experience of gender incongruence, including experience as a health service user.
- Ability to use your own lived experience to inspire hope and pride.
- Knowledge of peer work principles and the ability to support others from a mutual perspective.
- Completion of Intentional Peer Support (IPS) training, or willingness to complete.
**What the Lived & Living Experience Workforce at Monash Health offers**:
- Comprehensive orientation and induction program.
- Up to 2 hours reflective supervision per month, plus group co-reflection spaces.
- Support and mentoring from Peer Work Leads.
- Higher Education Recognition Allowance.
- Funded Lived & Living Experience professional development and training opportunities.
- Quarterly Lived & Living Experience Workforce forums.
**Monash Health employees enjoy a range of benefits including**:
- Salary packaging options that increase your take-home pay.
- Comprehensive Health and Wellbeing program.
- Free flu vaccinations.
- Private health insurance at discounted rates.
- Health imaging services.
For a confidential discussion and to explore the opportunity further,**please call Emilie Tijs on 0419 342 543.
**Position Description can be**found here**
We recognise the value of equal employment opportunity. We are committed to patient safety, promoting fairness, equity and diversity in the workplace and to Child Safe Standards. At Monash Health we are relentless in our pursuit of excellence and work to our six guiding principles and our five ICare values.
**How to Apply**
Applications will be screened upon receipt and selection activity may commen