Youth Peer Support Worker Cymhs

1 week ago

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Alfred Health Full time

Alfred Health
Alfred Health is a leader in health care delivery, improvement, research and education.

We are the main provider of health services to people living in the inner southeast suburbs of Melbourne, from ambulatory to inpatient and home and community-based services.


  • Are you a young person with a lived and/or living experience of mental health challenges? Join the Youth Program Team at Alfred CYMHS to act as a recovery champion for young people._
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Permanent, Part-time (3 days per week Mon-Fri - days negotiable):


  • Based in Moorabbin, with some travel required:
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Exciting role specifically for young people who have lived and/or living experience of mental health challenges:


  • Lived Experience Worker Level 3:
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Frequent professional development opportunities

WHAT'S IN IT FOR YOU

  • Great team culture
  • Supportive multidisciplinary team environment
  • Worklife balance

ABOUT US


Alfred Child & Youth Mental Health Service (CYMHS) is one component of the Department of Mental & Addiction Health at Alfred Health.

We are a community-based service providing comprehensive assessment, treatment and case management to infants, children, adolescents and young people up to the age of 25 years of age presenting with behavioural, emotional, psychiatric or developmental difficulties.

CYMHS provides clinical services in partnership with a wide range of service providers to achieve the best possible outcomes. Alfred CYMHS is committed to active participation by families and young people in evaluating and improving our services.

Child and Youth (CY) HOPE
CY HOPE is a program within CYMHS that supports children and young people at a risk of suicide.

The program provides rapid and intensive form of support to the young person as well as their support networks through prevention and intervention.


WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING


As a Youth Peer Support Worker, you will draw from your own lived and/or living experience of mental health challenges to act as a recovery champion within the Alfred Health Youth Program team, specifically working alongside the Child & Youth HOPE program.

In this role, you will be responsible for providing one-to-one support to young people.
Please note this is not a clinical role.
As a Youth Peer Support worker, you will also work with and alongside the HOPE clinicians. Whilst Youth Peer Support Workers are not clinicians, they are as much a valued part of our team. Our Youth Peer Workers have a key responsibility to help inform our service design and delivery.

In this context, sharing insights that are drawn from your own lived experience may be really important in enabling another staff member or team to develop an understanding of a person's experiences, or how we may be working and the potential impact of this on a young person's experience.


WHAT YOU'VE GOT

  • Lived experience of mental health challenges as a young person and experience of utilising mental health services in your own recovery (essential Key Selection Criteria)
  • Prior experience working as a peer support worker (essential)
  • Recognition and understanding of your own personal recovery process (including tools and strategies) and the ability to use this to appropriately share your story with purpose to support others (essential)
  • Confidence to advocate for yourself and young people in a clinical environment
  • Australian working rights
  • Current Victorian Driver License
  • Current Working with Children Check or willing to obtain one, and be willing to undergo a Background Check

WHAT YOU'LL GET

  • Relevant training (e.g. Peer Support, group facilitation, Open Dialogue)
  • Regular peer supervision and line management supervision
  • Support from the Youth Program team dedicated to promoting the voice of lived experience

OTHER BENEFITS

  • Access to salary packaging, discounted health insurance and banking
  • Great worklife balance
  • Located close to public transport, shops and restaurants


If this opportunity sounds like it is for you, click the
APPLY button, including your cover letter responding to the Key Selection Criteria, and your resume.


For more information regarding the position please contact Angela Wright on ph: or Charlie Wood on ph:

Applications close Sunday, 14 May 2023 at 11pm AEST. Please ensure your cover letter is separately attached.


Alfred Health is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to attracting and retaining a diverse workforce that reflects the community we serve.

Applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders are encouraged.

All Alfred Health employees are required to be vaccinated against COVID-19. This is in accordance with the Vaccination of Health Care Workers (COVID-19) Directions - Health Services. All Alfred Health employees are required to be vaccinated against influenza. This is in accordance with the Mandatory Vaccination of Health Care Workers (Influenza Vaccine) Di

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