Aboriginal Wellbeing Peer Practitioner

5 months ago

Greater Adelaide SA, Australia Sonder AU Full time

Posted: 26/08/2024

Closing Date: 09/09/2024

Salary: $71,000.00 - $77,000.00

Job Type: Contract

Location: Kaurna Country, Sonder & headspace Edinburgh North

Job Category: Healthcare & Medical

**Who are we?**

At Sonder, we’ve been helping people across South Australia to improve their wellbeing and live better lives since 1993. We support thousands of people each year with mental health challenges, drug and alcohol use concerns, chronic disease management and employment.

**What benefits can we offer?**

When you work with Sonder, you become part of the Sonder family and that provides you with a number of benefits such as:

- Salary (excluding super) paid above award and reviewed annually
- Flexible working arrangements
- Professional development allowance provided yearly
- Generous salary packaging options - increase your take home pay by 6-12%
- Modern and welcoming office spaces
- Christmas Closure Bonus Leave (above annual leave entitlements)
- Training opportunities
- Meal & entertainment allowances
- Paid parental leave, and much more

Sonder are open to negotiating further benefits with the successful applicant to ensure an excellent working environment for you.

**Location**:Safe Haven (Salisbury) and Sonder Edinburgh North

**Hours**:Part-Time (0.8FTE) Fixed Term until 29/11/2024

**Learn about the position**:
As the Aboriginal Wellbeing Peer Practitioner, you will utilise your own lived experience of mental health challenges and distress to provide culturally-safe support to people at risk of or experiencing mental health conditions who are accessing our services and their families/carers.

This position is part of a partnership between Sonder and Wardliparingga Aboriginal Health Equity Theme at the South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute (SAHMRI). This role has a commitment to generating practice evidence and will be working in partnership with members of the Wardliparingga Aboriginal Health Equity Theme (SAHMRI).

**Experience Requirements**:

- Experience in drawing on lived experience of mental health challenges, recovery and substance use to provide support to individuals and their families in accordance to Peer Support principles.
- Experience with delivering Peer Support services for people experiencing mental health challenges and or substance use
- Experience working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in health and wellbeing settings
- Experience in maintaining continuous quality improvement.

**Qualification Requirements and other Requirements**:

- Certificate IV in Peer Work or equivalent qualification with demonstrated experience in a lived experience or Peer Practitioner role is **desirable but not essential**:

- Current or willing to obtain a Working with Children's Check (WWCC)

**How to apply**:
Instead of a traditional cover letter, we would love to hear:

- Three interesting things about yourself
- Why this job excites you?
- Why you’re the perfect fit for the role?

Applications closes 09/09/2024

**This position is an Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Identified position and is exempt under the Equal Opportunity Act (1984). The position will only be open to those who identify as of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander descent

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