Peer Worker, Inpatient Mental Health

3 weeks ago


Darlinghurst, Australia St Vincent's Hospital Network Full time

**Position Title: Peer Worker, Inpatient Mental Health**
**Employment Type: Permanent Part time**
**Hours per week: 16 Hours**
**Position Grade: Health Education Officer **Graduate/Non-Graduate**

**Salary**: (Non-Graduate Year 1-9), $60,373.00 -** $**87,304.00** **Graduate (Year 1-11) **69, 050.00 - **$**110,326.00 **(pro-rata) **base salary per annum**
**Enterprise Agreement**:The Named NSW (Non-Declared) Affiliated Health Organisations' Professional & Associated Staff Agreement 2022**
**Department Name: Acute Inpatient Mental Health Service, Caritas Unit**

**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 wide of 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 Caritas Unit, Acute Inpatient Mental Health Service.

The role of a Mental Health Peer Worker has been developed for people who have lived experience of mental health services and personal recovery.

The international evidence demonstrates that embedding a peer support workforce within a mental health service improves outcomes for consumers within 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.

**Diversity and Inclusion at St Vincent's**:
**About you**:
**Application Instructions**:
**SELECTION CRITERIA**Personal integrity and demonstrated commitment to the Philosophy, Mission and Values of Mary Aikenhead Ministries and St Vincent’s Health AustraliaCompletion of the Certificate IV in Mental Health Peer Work or willingness to complete sameLived experience of secondary mental health services and able to reflect on personal experience of recoveryGood written, verbal and non-verbal communication skills e.g. ability to communicate their personal experience of recoveryUnderstanding of the issues and concerns of mental health service users and able to maintain, professional boundariesExperience supporting people with a mental illness within a personal recovery contextExperience of working in a team environment and understanding the dynamics of same

**Application Close 3 July 2024



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