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Become a part of an exciting opportunity as a Lived Experience Peer Worker with Mental Health Hospital in the Home Services. You will Utilise a lived experience of mental health issues, substance use and recovery to assist consumers to work towards achieving their best outcomes and to support those providing clinical care to develop a better understanding of recovery-oriented care and the additional benefits that peer support can provide. You will serve as a positive role model, connecting with consumers, their carers and staff.
About us:
The Cairns and Hinterland Mental Health and AOD Services is responsible for delivering mental health and AOD services throughout the Cairns and Hinterland Hospital and Health Service and for supporting other mental health and AOD services in the surrounding Hospital and Health Services of Cape York, Torres Strait Northern Peninsula Area. Its primary objective is to ensure access to a comprehensive range of treatment and support services, clinical treatment, rehabilitation, disability support, as well as early intervention, and mental health prevention and promotion.
Access Services consists of a large number of specialty mental health services which assist consumers to access the right clinical service at the right time. This includes connecting consumers with other aspects of the MHAOD service and/or the primary health care sector. Teams in Access services include (but are not limited to) Acute Care Team, Centralised Intake Service MH CALL, QAS and QPS Co-Responders, sub-acute residential services, Perinatal and Infant Mental Health, Primary Mental Health Care Liaison and Mental Health Hospital in the Home.
The Mental Health Hospital in The Home program (MH-HITH) will provide hospital substitution care, providing inpatient assessment and treatment services outside the hospital setting for people presenting/experiencing with acute episode of mental illness. The objective of the program is to provide consumers with individualised assessment and treatment alongside a supportive framework for the family/carers in their own home to manage an acute mental health issue that otherwise required inpatient care.
We're committed to improving the health and wellbeing of people in Far North Queensland by providing high quality acute health care services.
About your opportunity:
* Model personal recovery, self-awareness, self-belief, self-advocacy and hopefulness by sharing your own story of recovery to inspire and instil confidence in others.
* Drawing on your lived experience of recovery, support consumers to identify their own achievable and meaningful recovery goals, including planning to make positive changes to achieve these.
* Apply thoughtful and ethical decision making, with support and guidance as required, to act within operational and professional boundaries.
For more information about this role, please refer to the attached Role Description.
Vaccine Preventable Diseases (VPD) evidence as required for your employment in accordance with legislation/government policy and Directives.
What we offer:
Cairns and Hinterland Hospital and Health service offer a number of workplace benefits. Besides attractive remuneration, generous superannuation, salary packaging and career development opportunities, we value a healthy work/life balance that allows you take advantage of the sunshine, hiking tracks, swimming spots, reef and rainforest.
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