Peer Practitioner

• Utilise your Lived Experience to provide effective recovery support to clients
• Provide positive, recovery-orientated support to clients experiencing ill mental health and achieve their wellbeing goals to live independently
• Part Time 6 month role | 27.5 hours/week | Youth Prevention and Recovery Care, Frankston Location

Mind strongly encourages applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, people with a lived experience of mental ill health and recovery, and applicants from all cultures, genders, sexualities, bodies, abilities, spiritualities, ages and backgrounds.

Mind Australia is one of Australia's largest providers of community-managed psychosocial services, supporting people experiencing mental health and wellbeing challenges to find help, hope and purpose in their lives. Operating for more than 45 years and employing more than 1,300 staff around Australia, Mind is a leading employer of people with lived experience of mental health challenges, recognising their unique ability to connect with and motivate clients and guide recovery.

About the service

The Youth Prevention and Recovery Care (YPARC) is a short stay residential service, delivered in partnership with Victorian hospital networks and Health Service, to support young people aged 16-25 years who require additional support to manage their mental health. YPARC is a 'step-up, step-down' program to assist in the transition from an acute hospital setting to prevent hospital admissions for those entering directly from the community. The service provides individualised 1:1 support, shared supports and group work based on young people's strengths to enable them to achieve their recovery goals, enhance relationships with families and carers, develop everyday living and social skills, build community networks, and increase confidence and capacity to live safely in the community.

About the role

We are seeking an approachable and engaging Peer Practitioner for a 6 month fixed term, part time (27.5 hours per week) opportunity in the Frankston area. This role will see you utilising your lived and living experience of mental ill health to engage directly with clients through providing empathetic and positive support. You will champion the voice of lived experience whilst practicing in alignment with family-inclusive principles, recovery-oriented approaches, trauma-informed theories, and anti-oppressive frameworks.

Key responsibilities

• Draw on the broader lived and living Experience knowledge base to inform your practice.
• Provide direct support to individual clients, delivering high quality service and facilitating positive educational and social experiences
• Work collaboratively with a broad range of services as they relate to clients' needs to ensure a co-ordinated and integrated response to the client's recovery goals
• Work within a recovery-oriented framework to support individuals, families and carers
• Planning and delivering group work programs that will assist customers to build their skills, focus on their recovery
• Assist clients in building networks with their families and community services

What you'll bring

• Completion of Intentional Peer Support Core and/ or Advanced Training, or Certificate IV in Mental Health Peer Work, is desirable but not required.
• Lived/living experience and willingness to support clients through sharing your own learnings and recovery orientated practice
• Experience working with people with complex mental health issues and their families and carers
• Demonstrated ability to implement a recovery-oriented framework
• Skilled in building solid connections with clients, colleagues and stakeholders
• Demonstrated understanding of available community services, supports and the NDIS
• Experience or ability to acquire skills in understanding needs and working collaboratively to plan wellbeing supports using evidence informed approaches and tools, for example in challenging situations.

Benefits

• Salary packaging up to $15,899 p.a. allows you to allocate a portion of your pre-tax income to cover living expenses (e.g. rent, mortgage, child care, car leasing expenses etc.)
• Option to access Meal and Entertainment allowance up to $2,650 p.a. via Salary Packaging.
• Access to our Employee Assistance Program (EAP), provided by Converge International,for you and your immediate family members.
• Fitness Passport - Access to our corporate health and fitness program, providing you and family with access to a wide choice of fitness facilities.
• Professional development through regular Practice Development sessions and coaching with your supervisor

Interested?

To apply visit Mind Careers - reference number 498015 Online applications must be submitted by 11pm Tuesday 26th August. Please contact the person below for more information.

Karen Brown – Service Manager
Karen.Brown@mindaustralia.org.au

We are committed to making reasonable adjustments to provide a positive, barrier-free recruitment process. If you require any support or reasonable adjustments to complete your application, please contact us at hr@mindaustralia.org.au

Position Description

PD Peer Practitioner (YPARC) 20230130.pdf

The successful applicant is required to complete comprehensive reference and background checking prior to employment, including a Working with Children Check, NDIS Workers Screening Check and the ability to obtain vaccinations against COVID-19.