Flourish Australia has an exciting opportunity for a Peer Worker to join our established Armidale team
The position available is:
* Full-time (76 hours per fortnight)
* Working Monday to Friday
* Based in Armidale
* Attractive hourly rates equivalent to $38.65-$41.45/hour + Super + Tax-Free Salary Packaging
About the Opportunity
As a Peer Worker, you will work in the community to support people accessing our services who have a lived experience of mental health challenges to achieve their hopes and dreams. Your personal lived experience of mental health challenges, trauma, recovery and navigating services is recognised as a form of Lived Experience. You use this expertise intentionally, safely, and purposefully to build relationships grounded in mutuality, shared understanding, respect, and hope. Through authentic connection and values-aligned self-disclosure, you support people to explore their strengths, rights, choices, and self-defined recovery goals, always honouring their roles as the expert in their own life.
On a day to day basis you will:
* Effectively and appropriately hold recovery and social citizenship conversations with people who access our services in order to connect with them, support them and build reciprocity, via mutual understanding, trust and shared experience.
* Effectively and appropriately guide and support each individual in their recovery and be strengths, ability and possibility focused, whilst ensuring they are the leads in their own recovery journey.
* Effectively contribute to decreasing stigma and discrimination around having a lived experience of a mental health challenge.
* Support the person to access activities and opportunities that promote independence.
* Support skill development at every opportunity through self-directed learning, information, training, and education.
To learn more about becoming a Peer Worker with Flourish Australia, we encourage you to review An Introduction to Peer Work at Flourish Australia, which provides a clear overview of the role. You can also deepen your understanding of our Peer Work model by exploring our Peer Workforce Framework.
The full position description can be found below:
* Peer Worker Position Description
Selection Criteria
Essential:
1. A Certificate IV or above in a relevant field OR a minimum of 2-years full-time experience working in the human services field (as recognised by Flourish Australia).
2. A personal lived experience of a mental health challenge and recovery.
3. Willing and able to effectively, respectfully, and appropriately use your lived experience of a mental health challenge and recovery.
4. Demonstrated alignment to Flourish Australia's values.
5. A strong understanding and commitment to recovery-based practice in the workplace.
6. Understanding of the challenges faced by people with a lived experience of mental health challenges.
7. Understanding of, and ability to effectively use, Microsoft Office and knowledge of data information management systems.
8. Maintain a current Australian Driver's Licence.
For further information, please contact Debra Gibbons, Manager. E: (please do not email applications).
How to Apply
To apply for this position, please complete all the questions asked. You will then be required to attach a copy of your resume on the following page, we encourage you to have your resume up-to-date and available before you commence the application.
Please note that we may speak with your current Manager regarding your application. Please also ensure that the People and Culture team have all relevant certificates and training attendance recorded on your P&C file as this may be referenced as part of the selection process.