Expression of Interest

2 weeks ago

Geelong, Australia Barwon Health Full time

**Employment Status**

Permanent Full Time, Permanent Part Time

**Program**

Mental Health Drug and Alcohol Services

**Location**

Multiple Locations

**Hours Per Fortnight**

0

**Position Summary**
- Multiple opportunities available - junior and senior options
- Utilise your lived experience of a mental illness to assist others in their recovery journey
- Join a team committed to supporting lived experience as a key discipline in mental health service delivery

**About the service**

Barwon Health's MHDAS provides integrated and recovery orientated mental health and drug and alcohol assessment, treatment, harm reduction and community and family support to people of all ages within the Barwon Region currently experiencing, or at risk of experiencing mental health and/or drug and alcohol issues. We are committed to supporting lived experience as a key discipline in mental health service delivery across our acute, community and specialty services.

**About the Lived Experience workforce**

MHDAS recognise the strength, courage and unique perspective of people with lived experience of mental health, as well as their carers, as a vital contribution to our service. We have lived experience roles embedded into the leadership, design and delivery of our services and our LE workforce is employed in a range of roles across the service.

**About the Consumer Peer Support roles**

**Key duties of Consumer Peer Support Workers**:

- Support service users on their recovery journeys, enhance their connection with their local communities and reduce the risk of unplanned re-admissions or relapse
- Collaborates with other Consumer Peer Workers for the delivery of groups
- Support communication to consumers, plans and facilitate groups, and undertakes administrative tasks.
- Providing expert input into the development of new peer programs
- Develops relationships with internal and external services
- Contribute to education activities designed to promote a greater understanding of peer work and the value of lived experience input into the service
- Senior Peer Workers will oversee individual and group peer supervision.

**About you as a consumer peer worker**
- Lived experience of mental illness (distress) and/or drug and alcohol use
- Lived experience of engagement with public mental health services
- Lived experience of recovery and understanding of own personal recovery process

**What we offer**
- Flexible working arrangement
- Professional development opportunities
- 5 weeks annual leave with the option to purchase additional leave
- Doorstep to the Great Ocean Road, Bellarine Peninsula and the Surf Coast
- Attractive salary packaging benefits
- Living Expenses capped at $9,010 and includes repayments on mortgages, credit cards, personal loans and rental payments
- Meal Entertainment & Accommodation capped at $2,650 and includes food and drink consumed in a social or entertainment settings and some accommodation expenditure

**Diversity and Inclusion**

At Barwon Health we are committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce. We embrace diverse life experiences and the perspectives of our people, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, religion, cultural background, disability, or sexual orientation.
- This role must be fully vaccinated for Covid-19 and influenza and meet the requirements of the Barwon Health immunisation policy._

Geelong, Victoria

**Selection Criteria**

Essential: Can you please list Barwon Health's values?
Essential: Can you please choose one of Barwon Health's values and describe a situation in the workplace where you have displayed this value?
Essential: I agree, to commence employment, I am required to meet Barwon Health’s immunisation requirements (including full Covid-19 and Influenza vaccination) set out in the Staff Immunisation Policy. I acknowledge that meeting this requirement is mandatory and a condition of employment subsequently offered.
Essential: Lived experience of engagement with public mental health services as a consumer.
Essential: Please share some details about what you have learned as a result of your lived experience of mental health and/or drug and alcohol or recovery journey.

**Contact Person**

Anna Sowden

**Contact Person Job Title**

**Contact Number**

(03) 4215 2644

**Closing Date

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