Mental Health Recovery Support Specialist

2 weeks ago

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia beBeeRecovery Full time $60,000 - $91,500

Seeking an experienced and empathetic Recovery Support Specialist to join our team in providing positive, recovery-orientated support to individuals experiencing ill mental health.

About the Service

The Youth Prevention and Recovery Care (YPARC) is a short stay residential service that supports young people aged 16-25 years who require additional support to manage their mental health. The service provides individualised 1:1 support, shared supports and group work based on young people's strengths to enable them to achieve their recovery goals, enhance relationships with families and carers, develop everyday living and social skills, build community networks, and increase confidence and capacity to live safely in the community.

About the Role

This part time opportunity requires an approachable and engaging Recovery Support Specialist to utilise your lived and living experience of mental ill health to engage directly with clients through providing empathetic and positive support. You will champion the voice of lived experience whilst practicing in alignment with family-inclusive principles, recovery-oriented approaches, trauma-informed theories, and anti-oppressive frameworks.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Draw on the broader lived and living Experience knowledge base to inform your practice.
  • Provide direct support to individual clients, delivering high quality service and facilitating positive educational and social experiences.
  • Work collaboratively with a broad range of services as they relate to clients' needs to ensure a co-ordinated and integrated response to the client's recovery goals.
  • Work within a recovery-oriented framework to support individuals, families and carers.
  • Planning and delivering group work programs that will assist customers to build their skills, focus on their recovery.
  • Assist clients in building networks with their families and community services.
What We Are Looking For

To be successful in this role, you will bring:

  • Completion of Intentional Peer Support Core and/or Advanced Training, or Certificate IV in Mental Health Peer Work, is desirable but not required.
  • Lived/living experience and willingness to support clients through sharing your own learnings and recovery orientated practice.
  • Experience working with people with complex mental health issues and their families and carers.
  • Demonstrated ability to implement a recovery-oriented framework.
  • Skilled in building solid connections with clients, colleagues and stakeholders.
  • Demonstrated understanding of available community services, supports and the NDIS.
  • Experience or ability to acquire skills in understanding needs and working collaboratively to plan wellbeing supports using evidence informed approaches and tools, for example in challenging situations.

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