Community Mental Health Peer Worker
1 week ago
Where excellence meets opportunity - discover your next chapter with cohealth
Part time (0.6 FTE), Ongoing role $41.52 to $44.70 per hour (depending on experience) + super + salary packaging Work for a multi-award-winning iconic community health organisation Generous salary packaging options to reduce your cohealth taxable incomeSo why cohealth?
cohealth leads the way in reducing health and social inequity in partnership with people and the communities in which they live. Named Premier's Health Service of the Year (Primary) and the Supporting LGBTIQ+ Health Service at the Victorian Public Healthcare Awards, cohealth's 1000 staff demonstrate courage, leadership, innovation, and agility in their commitment to providing inclusive and culturally safe health services that protect the human rights of all people of all gender identities, sexualities, ages, cultural and linguistic backgrounds, faiths, and abilities.
Our inclusive workplace culture enables staff to bring their whole selves to work, where uniqueness is valued, and people experience a feeling of belonging. Our aim is for everyone to thrive in their role. Please click here to find out more.
About the role
The Community Mental Health Peer Worker is responsible for providing quality community mental health lived experience, psychosocial and recovery support services in partnership with clients, families/carers and clinical mental health teams. This role is based at Orygen Youth Health (Parkville) working with young people registered with their service.
Please refer to the Position Description for more information.
Your duties include:
As a lead worker provide individual Lived Experience support to young people that are registered clients of Orygen Youth Health working in collaboration with carers/families and Orygen key clinicians Support the design, development, facilitation of group programs Introduce and orientate new clients to cohealth and introduce the concept of recovery Share lived experience of mental health challenges and recovery where it is appropriate, relevant and purposeful to the recovery journey of the client Provide client-centred secondary consultation for the team drawing on lived experience expertise, where appropriate Support opportunities for clients and carers/families to participate effectively in engagement, co-design, and evaluation activities to improve services Attend and actively participate in the Lived Experience Community of Practice, Peer Check-ins and Consumer Perspective Supervision.What cohealth offers:
Exciting Parental leave benefitscohealth offers primary carers 14 weeks paid parental leave upon completion of only 6 months of continuous serviceEligible co-workers will continue to receive superannuation on unpaid parental leave as well Salary packaging to suit you - tax free amount of up to $15,900 p.a (mortgage, rent, or credit cards) and a further $2,650 p.a (meal, entertainment expenses and holiday accommodation) alongside generous reward programs from our salary packaging providers. Find out more on salary packaging here: Novated Leasing available Counselling services for you and your immediate family through our EAP-Access provider, and mindfulness, resilience, and wellbeing programs We offer inclusion, equality, and opportunity in a workplace where making a difference counts (based on our guiding principles and values)Our ideal candidate:
Lived experience of mental health challenges and personal recovery as well as the capability to sharing lived experience as part of recovery-oriented peer support Demonstrated skills and minimum of two years' experience working in community health with clients who present with a high level of complexity, vulnerability, and disadvantage Demonstrated ability to work in a complex and changing internal and external environments Victorian Driver's LicenseAll appointments are made subject to a satisfactory Police Check, a Working With Children Check (WWCC), complete a Statutory Declaration, evidence of legal rights to work in Australia, and evidence of vaccination against COVID-19 (3 doses). Additionally, some roles will also require current AHPRA registration and/or NDIS Worker Screening Clearance.
Roles that are determined to be Risk Category A or B [staff that have direct and/or indirect contact with body substances and are at higher risk of occupational exposure to infections] will be required to provide evidence of immunisation assessment including Influenza prior to commencement [A] or within 12 weeks of commencement [B]. This is in accordance with the Victorian Minister of Health Mandatory Vaccination Orders for COVID-19 and legislated requirement for influenza vaccination.
Application Process
Click on apply now to be directed to our careers page. You will be asked to upload your CV/ resume and Cover Letter. We will be conducting interviews for this role as applications are received. This campaign will close on the mentioned date at 10.00 PM. If you have any questions regarding this role, please contact Justine English
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