Advanced Peer Support

1 day ago

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia Metro South Health Full time
Overview

Join our Logan Wellbeing Team as an Advanced Peer Support Worker and make a meaningful difference supporting carers and families in mental health recovery.

Responsibilities
  • Provide recovery-oriented, person-centred peer support to carers, families, and significant others of mental health service consumers.
  • Share your lived experience to educate, advocate, and empower carers through individual and group support.
  • Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams and community organisations to enhance carer support services.
  • Facilitate psychoeducation programs, support groups, and contribute to service development and training.
About you
  • Have personal lived experience as a carer for someone with mental health or substance use challenges.
  • Skilled communicator able to work collaboratively within multidisciplinary teams.
  • Knowledge of recovery principles and experience delivering peer-led education or support groups.
  • Commitment to professional boundaries, ongoing learning, and advocating for carers' voices.
What We Can Offer You
  • We offer a family-friendly work environment that supports you in making the most of Queensland's laid-back lifestyle.
  • We are renowned for teaching and research excellence with strong relations with Queensland's leading tertiary institutions.
  • You'll have all the benefits of working for Queensland's world-class public health system including generous leave entitlements, attractive salary and remuneration packages, salary packaging and access to relevant professional development allowances and/or leave, study and research assistance, corporate discounts and employee wellness programs.
About us

Metro South Addiction and Mental Health Services provide inpatient, hospital-based and community mental health and community alcohol and drug services for all age groups across a number of campuses. We embrace a forward looking, progressive approach and work collaboratively with all stakeholders in order to achieve expected outcomes. A clear and strong consumer and carer focus is promoted with our vision being to provide our community excellence in consumer centred, integrated care across the continuum of addiction (alcohol and drug) and mental health services. INTEGRITY | COMPASSION | ACCOUNTABILITY | RESPECT | ENGAGEMENT | EXCELLENCE. Our values were created by employees for employees to shape our culture and inspire positive interactions in the workplace. Diversity of ideas, skills, traditions, and customs is celebrated as one of our greatest strengths. Having a workforce that reflects and understands the needs and expectations of our community is important to delivering safe, kinder, and more inclusive care. We recognise our strength comes from the diversity of our people and so we encourage people of all genders, ethnicities, ages, abilities, languages, sexual orientation, and family responsibilities to apply.

We Are Metro South Health. We are the major public healthcare provider for Brisbane's south side, Logan, Redlands, and the Scenic Rim operating five major hospitals and a range of community, specialty, and state-wide healthcare services. We are bold, innovative, collaborative, inspiring. We save lives, change lives, and make the world a better place. We are part of and proud of the community we serve. We are better together.


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