Peer Support Specialist

1 day ago

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia beBeeCarer Full time $73,000 - $85,000
Job Opportunity: Peer Support Specialist

This is a unique chance to utilize your carer experience and skills to guide and support others, influence inclusive mental health care, and be part of a values-driven team.

About the Role:
  • Provide emotional support, information, and education to carers and families, promoting recovery-focused care.
  • Share personal carer experience to model recovery and build connection with individuals who can benefit from it.
  • Collaborate with a multidisciplinary team to co-facilitate carer support groups and advocate for carer-inclusive practices.
About You:
  • You are a passionate individual with lived or living experience as a mental health carer, willing to use your experience to empower others.
  • You possess strong interpersonal and communication skills to build trusting relationships, an understanding of recovery principles, peer work values, and carer-inclusive frameworks.

The ideal candidate will demonstrate willingness and confidence to share their own lived or living experience to support others and have a strong ability to understand and implement carer-inclusive practices.

In this role, you will work collaboratively with a team to provide emotional support, information, and education to carers and families, promoting recovery-focused care and influencing inclusive mental health care.

Key Responsibilities:
  1. Provide emotional support, information, and education to carers and families.
  2. Share personal carer experience to model recovery and build connection.
  3. Collaborate with the multidisciplinary team and co-facilitate carer support groups.
  4. Advocate for carer-inclusive practices and identify service improvements.
Requirements:
  • Lived or living experience as a mental health carer.
  • Possess strong interpersonal and communication skills.
  • Understanding of recovery principles, peer work values, and carer-inclusive frameworks.

This is a great opportunity to make a positive impact in the lives of carers and families, promoting recovery-focused care and influencing inclusive mental health care.

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