Peer Worker

1 day ago

Ipswich, Australia Open Minds Full time

Make a difference using your lived experience. Join a team that supports recovery and promotes mental health.

**Why join Open Minds at Ipswich Medicare Mental Health Centre?**
- Be a part of a program that helps individuals navigate distress and reconnect with their community.
- Build partnerships with local services and support networks.
- Contribute to an exciting new community-based model designed to support those experiencing distress.

**About the role**

This maximum term, full-time opportunity offers the chance to use your lived experience of mental health challenges to provide empathetic and practical support to those in need. Working closely with service users for 2-3 weeks, you’ll help them navigate local services, build recovery goals, and foster connections to promote wellbeing.

**Your responsibilities will include**:

- Offering personalised peer support and advocacy.
- Assisting service users in understanding and accessing support systems.
- Strengthening community connections by fostering relationships with local services.
- Utilising trauma-informed and recovery-oriented practices to inspire hope and reduce stigma.
- Supporting service users to set and achieve recovery goals.

**About you**

To succeed in this role, you’ll need:

- Lived experience and the ability to reflect and share your journey meaningfully.
- Experience in mental health peer work or similar roles.
- Strong interpersonal skills, with the ability to connect with diverse groups, including First Nations and priority populations.
- Knowledge of trauma-informed and recovery-oriented practices.

**About the Distress Brief Support (DBS) Service**

This innovative service connects those experiencing distress with compassionate peer workers who provide short-term, community-based support. By understanding service users’ unique circumstances and linking them to the right resources, the DBS Service empowers individuals to transition toward recovery.

**Ready to share your story and inspire hope?**
- Open Minds acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of the lands on which we all work, live and play on. We pay our respects to the Elders past and present and extend that respect to all First Nations Peoples. We reflect upon the millions of footprints that are embedded into the earth from our Ancestors, the pathways that were forged, the meaning they leave behind and the continuation of the traditions through the next generations._

**Job Types**: Full-time, Fixed term
Contract length: 18 months

Pay: $66,018.16 - $72,044.96 per year

**Benefits**:

- Referral program
- Salary packaging

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

Work Location: In person

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