Mental Health Peer Worker

4 weeks ago

Kingswood, Australia Nepean Blue Mountains Local Health District Full time

**Employment Type**: Permanent Part Time
**Position Classification**: Health Education Officer
**Location**: Nepean Hospital
**Remuneration**: Dependent on Qualifications
**Hours Per Week**: 32
**Requisition ID**: REQ388755
**Applications Close**: 23/04/2023

This position is dependent on Qualifications:
Health Education Officer Graduate - $65,548.00 - $106,824.00 (pro-rata) per annum
Health Education Officer Non-Graduate - $56,871.00 - $83,802.00 (pro-rata) per annum
- With _**_CORE_**_ Values of _**_C_**_ollaboration, _**_O_**_penness, _**_R_**_espect and _**_E_**_mpowerment,_
- working with us will ensure your professional life is provided every opportunity to succeed_
- and develop in your chosen career role._

**What we can offer you (for eligible employees)**:

- Accrued Day Off (ADO) (for full time employees)
- Opportunity for extra tax savings through Salary Packaging
- Novated Leasing
- Great education opportunities through Education Training Service which offers over 110 courses each year
- Access to our Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for staff and family members
- Fitness Passport

**What you will be doing**:
An exciting opportunity is available to join the Suicide Prevention Outreach Team as a Mental Health Peer Worker. The Suicide Prevention Outreach Team (SPOT) Peer Worker will work jointly with a Mental Health Clinician and in collaboration and with NSW Police to provide a targeted response to support people experiencing acute psychological distress and suicidal crisis within the Blue Mountains community.

The SPOT will be a secondary response service that can be initiated by front line police officers to provide a compassionate, trauma-informed rapid mental health response to consumers in their homes or preferred community locations.

SPOT comprises peer workers and clinicians who respond in peer/clinician pairs to support people in acute psychological distress or suicidal crisis. They engage with people in their homes or in preferred community locations. The clinician and peer worker work as equal partners, each bringing their own expertise. Early contact will focus on psychosocial reasons for distress, stabilisation, safety planning and distress recognition. There will also be a focus on linkage with outpatient and community services.

**Peer Worker role**
- Work in the Katoomba area as part of the SPOT. May also work within other parts of the Mental Health Service as needed or desired.
- Adopt a “no wrong door” approach to all consumers who present, facilitating referrals and access to other services as needed.
- Offers hope to consumers who present in suicidal crisis and psychological distress
- Provide culturally responsive support that respects differing world views and understandings of mental health and wellbeing.
- Facilitate contact with people who have a personal lived experience of recovery and firsthand experience in wellbeing management.
- Provide recovery-oriented and trauma-informed peer support for consumers experiencing acute distress
- Work within a Step Up / Step Down framework: make referrals to a range of community-based services for ongoing therapy and support if required (Step Down), or escalating concerns over consumer wellbeing to clinical staff/management for more intensive follow up to support hospital avoidance (Step Up). Where this is not enough to meet a consumer’s needs it might be necessary make referrals for clinical assessment with a view to inpatient admission.

An eligibility list may be created for future vacancies.

**About us**:
Nepean Blue Mountains Local Health District (NBMLHD) is a wonderful place to expand your career and grow your skills and knowledge. As a recognised leader in the healthcare industry, we provide a range of public health services to the Nepean and Blue Mountains and Lithgow Region.

**All NSW Health workers are now required to have received 3 doses of an approved COVID-19 vaccine or have an approved medical contraindication certificate. You will be required to provide a record of your COVID-19 vaccination status if successful.**

Selection Criteria to be Addressed:

- Personal lived experience of suicidal crisis, mental distress and recovery, and ability to meaningfully and purposefully use lived experience to provide peer support to consumers.
- Attainment of the Certificate IV in Mental Health Peer Work (Consumer), or successful completion of Certificate IV in Mental Health Peer Work (Consumer) within 18 months of commencing position.
- Demonstrated experience using recovery-oriented and trauma-informed principles in providing support to consumers, and a broad understanding of recovery-oriented service provision and consumer involvement in service design, implementation and evaluation.
- Understanding of the suicide prevention sector and ability to utilise appropriate suicide prevention supports such as safety planning, managing risk (including promoting dignity of risk). Knowledge of legislation and standards relevant

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