Mental Health Peer Worker

3 weeks ago

Darlinghurst, Australia St Vincent's Hospital Network Full time

**Position Title**: Mental Health Peer Worker
**Employment Type**: Permanent Part Time
**Hours per week**:32
**Position Grade**: Health Education Officer - Graduate
**Salary**: $65,548.00- $97,045.00
**Enterprise Agreement**: The Named NSW (Non-Declared) Affiliated Health Organisations' Professional & Associated Staff Agreement 2019
**Department Name**: Mental Health Services

**About us**:
St Vincent’s Hospital Sydney is a leading not-for-profit organisation providing health services to our community. Guided by our values of compassion, excellence, integrity and justice, we promote a culture of diversity and inclusion and empower our people to learn, grow and innovate.

**Benefits of working at St Vincent’s include**:

- Generous salary packaging and Fitness Passport for eligible staff
- Opportunity to access a large range of clinical and non-clinical education programs
- Supported post graduate opportunities within applicable fields
- Career development opportunities across the St Vincent’s Health Australia Network
- Employee Assistance Program
- Work/Life balance

**About the role**:
We have an exciting opportunity to work in a dynamic team leading our approach to the provision of quality care to clients of the Mental Health Services.

The role of a Mental Health Peer Worker has been developed for people who have lived experience of mental health services and personal recovery. Peer workers connect with consumers during a mental health inpatient admission and provide assertive community based follow up upon discharge for a period of up to 6 weeks.

The aim is to ensure a smooth transition for consumers from inpatient to community based mental health care with a strong focus on assisting consumer’s to access community-based services and supports that will enhance the consumers identified recovery goals in partnership with the identified mental health clinicians/treating team. Responsibility for the consumer’s clinical care and treatment is led by the identified mental health clinician/treating team. Peer Workers provide additional support to routine mental health care to aid recovery.

Peer workers provide a community-based service to consumers following discharge from inpatient care with the role being based within the O’Brien Centre. Meeting the clients can be flexible, however the venue is a collaborative decision determined by consumer preference and/or assessed level of risk.

The international evidence demonstrates that embedding a peer support workforce within a mental health service has a number of benefits including:
Engenders hope, gives consumers a reality to which they can aspire
Enables experimentation with different recovery strategies
Provides a role model of recovery
Increases community integration and reduces isolation
Reduces hospital admission rates and delays admissions
Assists with the successful transition to Community
Assists those at risk of readmission to stay well
Helps counter fears of loneliness, rejection, discrimination, rejection and frustration
Challenges stigma, including self-stigma
Influences change in service culture
Enhances the recovery focus of the service
Mental Health Peer Workers use their personal journey to support consumers by providing individual consultations, education and group interventions aimed at facilitating recovery principles of hope, choice, self-determination and social connectedness.

The Mental Health Peer Worker works alongside clinicians and is an integral part of the clinical team, contributing to care-planning and liaising with internal and external stakeholders to ensure the best outcome for the consumer

**Our Culture**:
**About you**:
We are seeking a skilled and energetic Mental Health Peer Worker who possess a passion for person centred care.

**Application Instructions**:
**Selection Criteria**:
1. Personal integrity and demonstrated commitment to the Philosophy, Mission and Values of Mary Aikenhead Ministries and St Vincent’s Health Australia
2. Solid secondary level education qualifications or able to demonstrate levels of numeracy and literacy skills.
3. Completion of the Certificate IV in Mental Health Peer Work or willingness to complete same
4. Lived experience of secondary mental health services and able to reflect on personal experience of recovery.
5. Good written, verbal and non-verbal communication skills e.g. ability to communicate their personal experience of recovery
6. Understanding of the issues and concerns of mental health service users and able to maintain, professional boundaries
7. Experience supporting people with a mental illness within a personal recovery context
8. Experience of working in a team environment and understanding the dynamics of same

**Applications close on 06/03/23

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