Carer Lived Experience Worker Level2

5 months ago


Heidelberg, Australia Austin Health Full time

**Part-time, permanent position (15.2hours p/w)**:

- **Heidelberg location**:

- **Base salary + salary packaging + super + 5 weeks annual leave**:

- **Rotating 7-day roster, day/afternoon shifts**

Austin Health is the major provider of tertiary health services, health professional education and research across three campuses in the North East of Melbourne and state-wide. We have a highly engaged, diverse and collaborative workforce that is unified by our purpose, which is to help people live healthy and fulfilled lives.

About the Mental Health Division

The division provides care and services through a comprehensive range of teams, to meet the needs of mental health consumers and carers throughout Victoria. All services work within a clinical framework that promotes recovery-oriented practice and supported decision making.

**About HOPE**

The Hospital Outreach Post-suicidal Engagement (HOPE) initiative provides tailored, holistic support to people post a suicide attempt, with the aim of supporting the person and their carers and families to identify and build the protective factors that reduce the risk of suicide and/or repeated intentional self-harm.

**About the role**
- **As a Carer Lived Experience Worker in our HOPE team you will work in collaboration with the clinical team to promote our consumers’ and their families/ carers wellbeing, by providing one to one peer support to families/carers following engagement with the HOPE Team, using personal lived experience to provide a model of hope and recovery, including direct and over the phone support.**

**A regular day will see you**:

- **Assist HOPE families/carers to support their family member with recovery and wellness planning to help gain a sense of control and empowerment over their lives by building on strengths and resources.**:

- **Promote a healthy lifestyle, and through general problem solving, assist the families/carers to take steps towards positive change in their lives and to more effectively manage and support their family members distress**:

- **Assist families/carers to navigate services, providing transport to appointments at times**:

- **Ensure linkage with appropriate health practitioners, community services and recreational groups**

**About you**

You will be someone with excellent communication, interpersonal and collaboration skills, who takes a highly compassionate approach to their work.

You will bring with you:

- **Have been / or are caring/supporting a first-hand user of public mental health services**:

- **A sound understanding of mental health peer support principles and ability to use peer support to provide hope and recovery**:

- **Demonstrated understanding and empathy of the broad impact of mental illness on consumers and carers/families.**:

- **Be a role model to other families/carers that inspires them to work at having the life they desire**:

- **An understanding of the Area Mental Health Service and principles and practices of DHHS Recovery-Oriented Practice in Mental Health**:

- **A current Victorian Driver’s License and the ability to drive a work vehicle**

**Our benefits**
- **Working at Austin Health means enjoying a strong sense of purpose, engaging in meaningful work every day. Our people also receive a variety of rewarding benefits, including**:

- **Salary packaging benefits, for living expenses, meals and holiday accommodation**:

- **A suite of wellness initiatives designed to support you, including discounts on fitness memberships and health insurance, and a comprehensive wellbeing program**:

- **Mentoring and career development opportunities**:

- **Onsite childcare, easy access via public transport, car parking and end of journey facilities for cyclists**:

- **Five weeks annual leave, plus purchased leave options**

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