▷ [Urgent] Peer Support Worker

6 days ago


Melbourne, Australia Melbourne Health Full time

Overview

Work Location: Waratah Community Health Service

The Royal Melbourne Hospital is one of Australia’s leading public healthcare providers. Join the team. Build a career. We are looking for a passionate and dedicated individual to join The Royal Melbourne Hospital.

Job Description

Peer Support Worker

Front of House Waratah Clinic Moonee Ponds

The Royal Melbourne Hospital Mental Health Services

- Part-time Ongoing Level 2 Consumer Peer Support Worker position 4 days per week / hours negotiable

- Use your lived experience of mental health, alcohol and other drug challenges or service use to support others experiencing similar challenges

- Based in Moonee Ponds, with close transportation links

About The Royal Melbourne Hospital

Royal Melbourne Hospital Mental Health Services provides person-centred, recovery-oriented care, treatment and support through our multi-disciplinary workforce of skilled and dynamic clinicians and Lived and Living experience (LLE) consumer and carer experts. We are dedicated to providing caring and high-quality specialist community and hospital-based mental health services for adults and older adults who are experiencing or are at risk of developing a serious mental illness. We are committed to working with consumers during their recovery by offering trauma informed holistic and evidence-based treatment, which is inclusive of family, carers and kin and provided by staff with well-developed skills. Staff employed within the service are expected to identify evidence-based practice approaches and to use these within their work.

About the role

The Front of House Peer support worker at Waratah Clinic is an integral role providing peer support to consumers in this public facing area of our community-based service.

- Support consumers in our waiting area when they arrive for their appointments

- Run our ‘welcome model’ – Initial Conversations, for new consumers entering the service

- Facilitate community group programs

- Contribute to the overall growth of the program

About you

Essential

- You have some peer support experience

- You are passionate about supporting individuals on their journey to recovery

- You are an effective communicator with knowledge of Microsoft Office / Excel

Benefits of working at RMH

- Salary packaging options, earn up to $12,000 tax free earnings

- 5 weeks annual leave pro-rata plus monthly ADOs for full time employees

- Discounted gyms and health centre access with Fitness Passport

- Fantastic learning and development opportunities

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Interested?

If you are looking for a challenging role and can demonstrate the above capabilities, we encourage you to apply via the site you are using.

Advertisement Contact (Name and phone): Geena Hardy

All appointments are made subject to a satisfactory Criminal History Record Check and a Working with Children Check. Successful applicants will be required to provide evidence of an immunisation assessment prior to commencement.

The RMH stands in solidarity with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in work and care. We are proud to be a workplace that champions diversity, inclusion and equality for our staff and our community. Our goal is for our people to feel safe, included and supported so that they can be at their best every single day.We encourage talented people from all backgrounds, abilities, and identities to apply to our vacancies, and will consider adjustments to support such applications.

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