Mental Health Peer Support Specialist

1 month ago

Traralgon, Victoria, Australia Latrobe Regional Hospital Full time
About the Role

We are seeking a Consumer Perspective, Mental Health Lived Experience Worker to join our Traralgon Community Mental Health team on a part-time basis until September 2024.

Key Responsibilities
  • Provide peer support to consumers who are receiving care from Latrobe Regional Health Mental Health Service.
  • Form mutually supportive and empathetic peer relationships by appropriately and purposefully sharing your own story and understanding of the impacts of mental distress and illness on consumers.
  • Use your lived experiences supporting someone through service use and recovery to provide emotional and practical support, making it easier to navigate the mental health system, and inspiring confidence, optimism, and hope in others about the journey of recovery.
What We Offer
  • Free access to our Staff Wellbeing Centre offering a range of health education and wellbeing services.
  • Access to ongoing development through daily education sessions, bespoke training and career & study support.
  • Tailored flexible work options to support work life balance, including ADO's, 5 weeks leave, regional salary packaging and additional purchased leave.
  • Fantastic social club activities and diverse and inclusive workplace activities.
  • Workplace Wellbeing programs and activities uniquely designed for LRH staff.
Requirements
  • Lived experience of being a consumer of Mental health services.
  • A willingness to purposefully and appropriately use your own story to help others further their own understanding of and belief in recovery.
  • Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to work well as part of a multidisciplinary team.
About Us

Latrobe Regional Health was proud to be the recipient of the 2022 Premier's Health Service of the Year (Medium) Award. This prestigious award recognises the amazing work of our team in driving change and improvement in the health outcomes for the Victorian community.

We are located 150 km east of Melbourne, and LRH is the regional provider of a broad range of specialist health services including hospital based, sub-acute and mental health services across Gippsland.

Now is an exciting time to join the LRH team, with $217 million expansion nearing completion, offering improved maternity and paediatric facilities, larger intensive care unit, increase medical and surgical beds and additional operating theatres.

Explore all the great things happening at LRH – and take the next step on your career journey by submitting your application for this and other roles here -

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