Family Peer Worker Headspace Sunshine

4 months ago

Melbourne, Australia Orygen, The National Centre of Excellence in Youth Mental Health Full time

Primary Clinical Services Melbourne Part-time

16/9/2024
- Sunshine location | Close to public transport, access to parking.
- Part time ongoing position | (0.4 FTE)
- Access to NFP salary packaging | Join a multidisciplinary team

Your new job

The Family Peer Worker will work within a team of Family Peer Workers who offer empathetic listening, provide support and information, connection and peer support drawing on their own lived experience of supporting their own children, young adult family members and significant others with mental ill health.

Reporting to the Family Peer Work Lead - Primary Clinical Programs, you will:

- Promote and advocate for the voice of families within the local multi-disciplinary team.
- Offer informal drop-in and appointment-based services for the families of young people who attend headspace to provide support, information, psychoeducation, empathic listening and connection.
- Offer empathic listening and provide support to families of young people attending headspace. This will be a person-centred, strengths-based approach and may be face-to-face, by telephone or using video conferencing platforms.
- Provide assistance with linking families into other family support, mental health, AOD and other relevant services in their area.
- Our headspace sites operate after 5pm multiple times a week, availability to work across rotating shifts required._

What you’ll need

You are passionate, energetic and determined to make a difference to health and wellbeing outcomes for young people. The following criteria must be met for consideration for this position:

- A personal experience of supporting a child and/or young adult family member who is/was experiencing mental ill health or alcohol and other drugs.
- Capacity to share own lived experience in a meaningful, appropriate and considered way.
- Capacity and willingness to conduct groups with families.
- High level interpersonal skills, including the ability to liaise effectively with a diverse range of people, families and stakeholders.
- Cert IV in Peer Work, and/ or Foundations of Peer Work and/or Core Intentional Peer Support training would be desirable.

What you’ll get in return
- Salary package between $66,018 - $72,045 commensurate with skills and experience pro rata + 11.5% super + NFP salary packaging up to $15,900 + $2,600 meals and entertainment card.
- Ability to purchase additional leave; access to EAP; generous Parental Leave Scheme.
- Opportunity to contribute to service design and growth within youth mental health services.
- Opportunity to be mentored, develop your skills and be challenged.

Orygen - leading the revolution

Imagine a future with unlimited potential. A future where every young person enjoys optimal mental health as they grow into adulthood. At Orygen, this is our life’s work, because we passionately believe it’s what all young people deserve.

Every step of the way, young people and families are at the heart of everything we do. Always.
Through world-leading research that creates change. Through pioneering reform that delivers real-world practical solutions.

At Orygen, that’s the future we’re creating right now. To do it, we have revolution in mind.

Join the revolution

For more information and to review the position description, please follow the link

This is a part-time (0.4FTE) ongoing position

Orygen is a child-safe organisation and is committed to promoting and protecting the safety and well-being of all young people and embedding safeguarding practices into all our programs and services.

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