Position Details
-Full time Permanent
-Paying SHADS level 5 (pay point depending on experience)
-Location: Morwell
-Salary Packaging available
What the role is:
You will lead the Peer Support workers to work alongside a multi-disciplinary team inclusive of mental health clinicians, mental health registered nurses, medical officers, and consultant psychiatrists. Peer Support Leads and Workers will support a high engagement model of care, through actively greeting and supporting consumers throughout their time at the Mental Health & Wellbeing Local Service. Peer Support Workers are an important element of the team approach and bring the wisdom of experience to many aspects of service delivery including intake interviews, service promotion, partnership work and case reviews.
1. Personal lived/living experience of recovery as a family, friend or carer. Your recovery experience may be related to mental health, suicidal crisis, drugs and alcohol use or trauma.
2. Willingness to identify or be identified by others as a professional with lived experience of recovery.
3. Willingness to share and draw on lived experience purposefully in the role to instill confidence and hope in others about the journey of recovery.
What you will bring:
4. Lived experience of mental illness, mental health crisis or caring for someone living with a mental illness and demonstrated experience of recovery.
5. Experience of the public or private mental health system.
6. Proven experience at managing teams within the area of community service delivery or providing supervision.
7. Mental Health Qualification: It is a requirement of the Peer Support Lead position that you hold, and provide Neami evidence of, a Mental Health (or equivalent Human Services, Community Services) qualification of Certificate IV level or above, or complete such a qualification within 2 years of your commencement of employment.