Youth Peer Support Worker Cymhs

4 weeks ago

Melbourne, Australia Alfred Health Full time

**Alfred Health**

Alfred Health is a leader in health care delivery, improvement, research and education. We are the main provider of health services to people living in the inner southeast suburbs of Melbourne, from ambulatory to inpatient and home and community-based services.
- Are you a young person with a lived and/or living experience of mental health challenges? Join the Youth Program Team at Alfred ICYAMHWS to act as a recovery champion for young people._
- ** Permanent, Part-time (3 days per week Mon-Fri - days negotiable)**:

- ** Based in Moorabbin, with some travel required**:

- ** Exciting role specifically for young people who have lived and/or living experience of mental health challenges**:

- ** Lived Experience Worker Level 3**:

- ** Frequent professional development opportunities**

**WHAT'S IN IT FOR YOU**
- Great team culture
- Supportive multi-disciplinary team environment
- Work-life balance

**ABOUT US**

**INFANT, CHILD & YOUTH AREA MENTAL HEALTH & WELLBEING SERVICE (ICYAMHWS)**

Alfred ICYAMHWS is one component of the Department of Mental & Addiction Health at Alfred Health. We are a community-based service providing comprehensive assessment, treatment and case management to infants, children, adolescents and young people up to the age of 25 years of age presenting with behavioural, emotional, psychiatric or developmental difficulties.

ICYAMHWS provides clinical services in partnership with a wide range of service providers to achieve the best possible outcomes. Alfred ICYAMHWS is committed to active participation by families and young people in evaluating and improving our services.

**WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING**

As a Youth Peer Support Worker, you will draw from your own lived and/or living experience of mental health challenges to act as a recovery champion within the Alfred Health Youth Program team. In this role, you will be responsible for providing one-to-one support to young people. **Please note this is not a clinical role.**

As a Youth Peer Support worker, you will also work with and alongside multi-disciplinary clinicians. Whilst Youth Peer Support Workers are not clinicians, they are as much a valued part of our team. Our Youth Peer Workers have a key responsibility to help inform our service design and delivery. In this context, sharing insights that are drawn from your own lived experience may be really important in enabling another staff member or team to develop an understanding of a person’s experiences, or how we may be working and the potential impact of this on a young person’s experience.

**WHAT YOU’VE GOT**
- Lived/living experience of mental health challenges as a young person and experience of utilising mental health services in your own recovery (essential Key Selection Criteria)
- Prior experience working as a peer support worker (essential)
- Recognition and understanding of your own personal recovery process (including tools and strategies) and the ability to use this to appropriately share your story with purpose to support others (essential)
- Confidence to advocate for yourself and young people in a clinical environment
- Australian working rights (essential)
- Current Victorian Driver License (essential)
- Current Working with Children Check or willing to obtain one, and be willing to undergo a Background Check (essential)

**WHAT YOU’LL GET**
- Relevant training (e.g. Peer Support, group facilitation, Open Dialogue)
- Regular peer supervision and line management supervision
- Support from the Youth Program team dedicated to promoting the voice of lived experience

**OTHER BENEFITS**
- Access to salary packaging, discounted health insurance and banking
- Great work-life balance
- Located close to public transport, shops and restaurants

If this opportunity sounds like it is for you, click the **APPLY** button, including your cover letter responding to the Key Selection Criteria, and your resume.

**For more information regarding the position please contact Jessica Anson on ph: 0437 863 358**

**Applications close Sunday 13th August 2023 at 11pm AEST. Please ensure your cover letter is separately attached.**

Alfred Health is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to attracting and retaining a diverse workforce that reflects the community we serve. Applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders are encouraged.

All Alfred Health employees are required to be vaccinated against COVID-19. This is in accordance with the Vaccination of Health Care Workers (COVID-19) Directions - Health Services. All Alfred Health employees are required to be vaccinated against influenza. This is in accordance with the Mandatory Vaccination of Health Care Workers (Influenza Vaccine) Directions - Health Services Establishments for influenza.

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