Consumer Peer Support Worker

1 day ago

Melbourne, Australia Alfred Health Full time

**Alfred Health**

Alfred Health is a leader in health care delivery, improvement, research and education. We are the main provider of health services to people living in the inner southeast suburbs of Melbourne, from ambulatory to inpatient and home and community-based services.
- **Ongoing part time role (up to 4 days per week)**:

- ** Based in St Kilda Rd Clinic**:

- ** Lived Experience Worker Level 2**:

- ** Exciting role specifically for people who have lived experience of mental health challenges**:

- ** Frequent professional development opportunities**

**What's in it for you**
- ** Regular professional supervision**:

- ** Supportive multi-disciplinary team environment**:

- ** Work-life balance**

**About us**

Alfred Mental & Addiction Health (AMAH) is responsible for the operation of services, which focus on people with a severe mental illness residing in the Inner South Eastern area of Melbourne.

The single most important goal of AMAH is to create an environment that facilitates clinical recovery, supports individual recovery efforts and strives to minimise service system barriers to the recovery process.

**What you’ll be doing**

As a Peer Support Worker, you will draw from your lived experience of your own mental health challenges and recovery to act as a recovery champion within the Community team. In this role, you will be responsible for providing one-to-one support to consumers of the service.

As a Peer Support worker, you will also work with and alongside clinical and recovery teams. Whilst peer support workers are not clinicians, they are as much a valued part of our team. Our Peer Workers have a key responsibility to help inform our service design and delivery. In this context, sharing insights that are drawn from your own lived experience may be really important in enabling another staff member or team to develop an understanding of a person’s situation or how we may be working and the potential impact of this on a person’s experience.

**About you**
- Certificate IV in Peer Work
- Appropriate work visa
- Current Victorian Driver's License
- Current Working with Children Check and be willing to undergo a Background Check

**Other benefits**
- Portable long service leave from other public health services
- A supportive and fun team working environment
- Great employment benefits as part of Alfred Health - Wellbeing initiatives, access to salary packaging, novated leasing and discounted health insurance and banking
- Great work life balance & located close to public transport, shops and restaurants

If this opportunity sounds like it is for you, click the **APPLY **button, include your resume and cover letter.

**For more information regarding the position please contact Matt Gittins on ph: 9078 9888**

Alfred Health is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to attracting and retaining a diverse workforce that reflects the community we serve. Applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders are encouraged.

All Alfred Health employees are required to be vaccinated against COVID-19 and Influenza with a TGA approved vaccine and must provide evidence of their vaccination status. This **i**s in accordance with the Victorian Minister of Health’s Mandatory Vaccination Orders for COVID-19 and legislated requirement for influenza vaccination.

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