**Employment Type**: Permanent Part Time
**Position Classification**: Health Education Officer Graduate, Health Education Officer Non-Grad
**Location**: Nepean Hospital
**Remuneration**: Dependent on Qualifications
**Hours Per Week**: 32
**Requisition ID**: REQ366129
**Application Closes**: 29/01/2023

**This position is dependent on Qualifications**:
Health Education Officer - Graduate - ($33.05 - $ 53.87 per hour )
Health Education Officer - Non Graduate - ($28.68 - $42.26 per hour)
- With _**_CORE _**_Values of _**_C_**_ollaboration, _**_O_**_penness,_**_ R_**_espect and_**_ E_**_mpowerment,_
- working with us will ensure your professional life is provided every opportunity to succeed and_
- develop in your chosen career role._

**What we can offer you (for eligible employees)**:

- Opportunity for extra tax savings through Salary Packaging
- Novated Leasing
- Great education opportunities through Education Training Service which offers over 110 courses each year
- Access to our Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for staff and family members
- Fitness Passport

**What you will be doing**:
In Nepean Blue Mountains Local Health District (NBMLHD), peer workers work as part of a designated team to support people who are experiencing psychological distress, a suicidal crisis or who have a mental health diagnosis for which they are receiving care from NBMLHD Mental Health Service. Each team is part of the overall integrated mental health service, encompassing acute and longer-term community mental health care, inpatient units, as well as specialist mental health teams providing specific evidence based therapeutic interventions. Peer workers draw on their lived experience of mental health challenges and recovery to develop empathic relationships with consumers and support their personal recovery. In doing this, the peer worker facilitates recovery principles of hope, choice, self-determination, social connectedness and promotes trauma informed practices.

The Older Persons Community Mental Health Team provides community mental health services to persons over the age of 65 living within the community setting including residential aged care facilities. Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander people can be referred at the age of 50.

The goal of the position is to support the consumer through their mental health service journey by providing individual consultations, education and group interventions aimed at facilitating recovery principles of hope, choice, positive identity, meaning and empowerment. Key focus areas include: physical health for mental health consumers, supporting consumers through their initial referral and engagement process, assisting individuals to maintain and pursue a quality of life of their choosing within the community, assisting with the development and promotion of Mental Health Advance Statements and to offer post discharge support from Mental Health Inpatient Units.

An eligibility list may be created for future vacancies.

**About us**:
Nepean Blue Mountains Local Health District (NBMLHD) is a wonderful place to expand your career and grow your skills and knowledge. As a recognised leader in the healthcare industry, we provide a range of public health services to the Nepean and Blue Mountains and Lithgow Region.

**NBMLHD**: Nepean Blue Mountains Local Health District will drive innovation and excellence in health service delivery that provides safe, equitable, high quality, accessible, timely and efficient services that are responsive to the needs of patients and the community.

**All NSW Health workers are now required to have received 3 doses of an approved COVID-19 vaccine or have an approved medical contraindication certificate. You will be required to provide a record of your COVID-19 vaccination status if successful.**

**Selection Criteria to be Addressed**:

- Personal lived experience of suicidal crisis, mental distress and recovery, and ability to meaningfully and purposefully use lived experience to provide peer support to consumers.
- Attainment of the Certificate IV in Mental Health Peer Work (Consumer), or successful completion of Certificate IV in Mental Health Peer Work (Consumer) within 18 months of commencing position.
- Demonstrated experience using recovery-oriented and trauma-informed principles in providing support to consumers, and a broad understanding of recovery-oriented service provision and consumer involvement in service design, implementation and evaluation.
- Understanding of the Mental Health Community Managed Organisation (CMO) sector and demonstrated ability to work collaboratively with a range of key stakeholders from a wide variety of settings.
- Demonstrated understanding of the aging process and its impact on the physical and mental health of consumers.
- Demonstrated knowledge of and ability to plan, implement and evaluate individual peer support service delivery.
- Demonstrated ability to work independently with mínimal supervision; effective inte