Position Summary
1. Join a supportive and inclusive team and service who value your contribution
2. Leadership opportunity to develop your peer worker skills in a specialist service
3. Permanent Part Time – 56 hours per fortnight
About the facility
Bellarine community health centre is one of five community centre’s at Barwon Health. A multidisciplinary team, you will be working with podiatrists, physiotherapist, psychologists, social workers, nutritionists, speech pathologists, community health nurses and occupational therapists. Bellarine Community centre also provides care for clients requiring Hospital in the Home, Post-Acute and Palliative care.
About you
4. Trained in the delivery of a peer led approach to service delivery
5. Lived experience of mental illness (distress)
6. Lived experience of engagement with public mental health services
7. Lived experience of Recovery and capacity to reflect on personal recovery processes
8. Previous experience as a peer worker and/or senior peer worker
9. Deep knowledge of peer support principles
About the role
10. As guided by the Lived Experience Discipline Lead and the Operational Manager of the Bellarine Community Centre, the Senior Consumer Peer Worker will:
11. Provide individual and peer support to people with a lived experience of mental distress who access therapy services
12. Work collaboratively with therapists and peer workers to develop effective peer supports
13. Provide supervisory input to peer workers and lead peer program development
14. 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.
Barwon Health staff benefits
15. EBA leave entitlements and the opportunity to purchase additional leave
16. Flexible working arrangements
17. Professional Development
18. Doorstep to the Great Ocean Road, Bellarine Peninsula and the Surf Coast
19. Access to employee wellness facility
20. Attractive salary packaging benefits!
21. Living Expenses capped at $9,010 and includes repayments on mortgages, credit cards, personal loans and rental payments
22. Meal Entertainment & Accommodation capped at $2,650 and includes food and drink consumed in a social or entertainment settings and some accommodation expenditure