Peer Worker Medicare Mental Health Centre

7 days ago

Devonport, Australia Stride Full time

A great new community mental health service
- Part-time OR full-time opportunities available
- Great workplace culture & collaborative team

**About Us**:
We are leaders in mental health service delivery, specialising in working with adults and young people, and in early childhood intervention.

Stride is a name that expresses our ambition - it’s a name that’s purposeful and shows awareness of the important role we play in the recovery journey.

**About the service**:
The Medicare Mental Health Services are free and you do not need an appointment, referral or Medicare card to visit a Medicare Mental Health Centre. The new services in Devonport, Burnie and Outer Hobart are co-funded by the Australian and Tasmanian Governments, to provide a streamlined approach to support better mental health and social wellbeing across the country.

The service is tailored to the needs of the community in Tasmania and provides a combination of peer-led recovery and clinical support.

The Medicare Mental Health Centre provides a safe, welcoming and supportive environment for people experiencing psychological distress, allowing them to:

- Identify alternatives to presenting to the Emergency Department
- Access support from trained mental health professionals within their community

**On offer**:

- Based in Devonport, TAS
- Permanent, part-time OR full-time opportunities available
- Paying on SCHADs level 3 plus Super
- Salary Packaging options (up to $15,899 tax free)
- Meals and entertainment allowance of up to $2,650
- Leave loading at 17.5%
- Stride Rewards - access to discounts from 100s of retailers (fashion, food and fitness)
- One paid wellbeing leave day per year
- Purchase up to 5 additional leave days in a 12 month period (pro rata entitlement if part-time)
- Paid parental leave support
- Supportive team environment
- Excellent training and career development

**Role Overview**:

- Mentor and support consumers in a person-led, strengths focused and recovery-oriented way to support hope and promote resilience, and who models the possibility and longevity of recovery;
- Build respectful, professional and appropriate relationships with consumers based around conversations which draw from personal experiences and emotions to support people in their journey of recovery;
- Inform and contribute to employees learning and service understanding, and advocate on systemic issues impacting people living with mental health issues.

**Requirements**:

- Cert IV in Mental Health Peer Work, or a willingness to complete
- Lived experience of your own mental illness and a rich understanding of your own processes of recovery and proactivity in managing wellbeing
- A willingness to purposefully use your own story to help others further their own understanding of recovery
- Ability to foster and maintain respectful, professional relationships with consumers, staff and organisations
- Ability to demonstrate initiative and work independently
- Computer literacy
- Must be eligible to apply/currently hold a WWCC

This includes but is not limited to people with a lived-experience of mental health recovery, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, LGBTQIA+, and people with disabilities.

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