Peer Support Worker

3 weeks ago


Springwood, Australia Stride Full time

**About Us**:
We’re leaders in mental health service delivery, specialising in working with adults and young people, and in early childhood intervention.

Stride is a name that expresses our ambition - it’s a name that’s purposeful and shows awareness of the important role we play in the recovery journey.

As we embark on the next stage of our journey, join us to make a difference. We're here to Stride.

**On offer**:

- Based in Springwood
- Full-time & Permanent
- Excellent Base salary plus Super
- Salary Packaging options (up to $15,899 tax free) May also be eligible for remote area benefits
- Meals and entertainment allowance of up to $2,650
- Leave loading at 17.5%
- Stride Rewards - access to discounts from 100s of retailers (fashion, food and fitness)
- One paid wellbeing leave day per year
- Purchase up to 5 additional leave days in a 12 month period (pro rata entitlement if part-time
- Excellent training and development
- Supportive team environment

**Role Overview**:

- Provide regular, flexible, low level non-clinical support to service users, and assist them to review their needs and resources, monitor activities identified in client Support Plans.
- Enable clients to achieve independence as far as possible in all areas of their life by providing appropriate information, opportunity, training and support
- Routinely perform Outcome Measures, and other data collection.
- Effective use of Supportability including self-management of rosters, record time and sign off of client activity, input journal entries and case notes.
- Provide support (that is sensitive, client focused and community orientated), advocacy and information to our clients with the use of the recovery process
- Attendance and participation in Communities of Practice, professional development and Critical incident management activities.

**Requirements**:

- Minimum of a Cert IV in a Community services related discipline (ideally a completed Bachelors or Diploma).
- To have experienced a mental illness which is now under effective management or lived experience of caring for someone having gone through mental illness.
- Knowledge and understanding of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders Culture and the ability to communicate effectively and sensitively with Indigenous Clients.
- Experience, skills and knowledge in working with people experiencing mental illness.
- Ability to implement and facilitate capacity building activities with participants.
- Ability to demonstrate initiative and work independently.
- Capacity to collaborate within a multidisciplinary team across a range of organisations.
- Must be eligible to apply/currently hold a Blue Card
- Current driver's licence with a good driving history and a registered, well maintained vehicle that is available to be used for the purposes of this role.

Vaccination against COVID-19 is a requirement for all positions and is in accordance with Stride policy. As part of the recruitment process Stride requests evidence of vaccination status (in accordance with privacy principles) to ensure compliance with this policy requirement.

This includes but is not limited to people with a lived-experience of mental health recovery, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, LGBTQIA+, and people with disabilities.

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