Advanced Peer Worker

2 weeks ago

Brisbane, Australia Queensland Health Full time

Metro South Health is Australia's first digital health service and one of the largest in Queensland, with an estimated residential population of approximately one million people or 23 per cent of Queensland's population.
This is your opportunity to join the dedicated team of professionals at Metro South Health and be part of a world-class, dynamic and growing health service that embraces technology, excellence in health care, teaching, research and empowering our people to be the best in serving our community.
About the Role
Provide consumers with education, information, referrals and support from personal experience of recovery and of utilising mental health services and non-government agencies within an inpatient setting.
- Positively promote and demonstrate individual, carer and family recovery and be open to sharing the personal lived/living experience of supporting a person with mental health and/or substance use issues.
- Be an effective and collaborative member of the multidisciplinary team, and work within professional boundaries in accordance with peer work values to provide safe and quality practices as part of an integrated model of care.
- Develop innovative and creative opportunities to increase the engagement of consumers across the service, thereby improving the outcomes for consumers, carers, families, staff and community.
- Serve as a positive role model to consumers, carers, families and staff and a source of information and knowledge from a lived/living experience perspective of managing personal mental health.
- Provide direct peer support to consumers to build their capacity for independence, by engaging in individual and group peer support, advocacy and education activities.

Our ICARE² values of Integrity, Compassion, Accountability, Respect, Engagement and Excellence, shape our culture within Metro South Health. Our values guide our day-to-day decision making and are fundamental to what we care about as a health service, how we behave, how we interact with each other and provide care to the many patients who come through our doors every day.
We offer rewarding career opportunities across a wide range of clinical and non-clinical areas across our health service and pride ourselves on providing a work environment that is safe, satisfying, flexible, and promotes a healthy work-life balance.
As a Metro South employee, you will benefit from a higher than standard employer contribution to Superannuation of up to 12.75%, access to salary packaging, flexible working arrangements and competitive salary rates with annual incremental increases.
It is a condition of employment for this role for the employee to be, and remain, vaccinated against COVID-19 (Health Employment Directive No. 12/21 (PDF)and Queensland Health Human Resources Policy B70 (PDF))

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