Peer Support Youth Alcohol

3 days ago


Frankston, Australia Peninsula Health Full time

**Great team, respectful culture & supportive management**:

- **Skip the traffic & work close to home in Frankston, gateway to the gorgeous Mornington Peninsula**:

- **Excellent salary packaging benefits, discounted onsite parking and employee benefits program**

**Who We Are and What We Stand For**

Peninsula Health is the major metropolitan health service caring for a community of 300,000 people. Our Vision is to provide exceptional health and community care. To realise this vision we need people who strive for a sense of achievement, take an interest in their individual growth, enjoy innovation and looking for ways to improve and have a passion for communicating and connecting with others.

In representing Peninsula Health, we expect all employees and volunteers to reflect our values:
**Be the Best, Be a Role Model, Be Open and Honest, Be Compassionate and Respectful and Be Collaborative.** We are One Peninsula Health.

**What You Will Be Doing**

The Youth AOD and Mental Health Peer Support Worker will utilise their lived experience to embed lived experience in leadership and decision making structures at Peninsula Health. This role will promote best practice by placing consumers and carers at the centre of policy and practice change by engaging consumers through a co-design and co-production process.

This role will work closely with the transformation team to provide input to the transformation priority areas of
- model of care,
- implementation planning,
- lived experience
- co-production and partnerships

**What You Need**

We anticipate you will have:

- Lived experience of Substance Use Disorder/Mental Health concerns and the AOD/Mental Health service sector
- Advanced stability of personal recovery
- Ability to work collaboratively with individuals and groups
- Understanding of the diversity of cultural, linguistic and gender backgrounds of our community and the impact this has on consumers and their families experience of substance use disorder and mental health.
- Understanding of the concepts of recovery.

**What Next**

If you experience any issues signing in or registering, please feel welcome to contact us - the People, Experience & Performance Team on (03) 9784 2700.

**Additional Requirements**

This role must be fully vaccinated for Covid-19 and meet the requirements of the Peninsula Health immunisation policy.

**Join Peninsula Health and help us to deliver safe, personal, effective & connected care to every person, every time. **Selection Criteria Essential: Lived experience of Substance Use Disorder/Mental Health concerns and the AOD/Mental Health service sector

Essential: Advanced stability of personal recovery

Essential: Ability to work collaboratively with individuals and groups

Essential: Understanding of the diversity of cultural, linguistic and gender backgrounds of our community and the impact this has on consumers and their families experience of substance use disorder and mental health.



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