Consumer Peer Worker

14 hours ago

Frankston, Australia Peninsula Health Full time

**Join our fantastic team in beautiful beachside Mornington Peninsula**:

- **Supportive culture, generous salary packaging benefits and great career development**:

- **An inclusive and culturally safe space**

**Who We Are and What We Stand For**

Peninsula Health is the major metropolitan health service caring for a community of 300,000 people. Our Vision is to provide exceptional health and community care. To realise this vision we need people who strive for a sense of achievement, take an interest in their individual growth, enjoy innovation and looking for ways to improve and have a passion for communicating and connecting with others.

In representing Peninsula Health, we expect all employees and volunteers to reflect our values:
**Be the Best, Be a Role Model, Be Open and Honest, Be Compassionate and Respectful and Be Collaborative.** We are One Peninsula Health.

**What You Will Be Doing**

The Mornington Adult Community Mental Health and Intensive Treatment Teams provide community care for people aged 26-64 years who experience mental health challenges or distress and require holistic treatment and wellbeing supports.

The Consumer Peer Worker role has been developed specifically for people with a personal experience of mental health challenges and recovery to provide holistic support to people accessing community mental health services and supports. Peer Workers are empathetic listeners who promote hope, choice and connection in their relationships with others.

Peer Workers work closely with clinical, allied health and other peer work staff. As key members of the multi-disciplinary treatment team, Peer Workers share their lived/living experience and expertise to ensure care is consumer-led, recovery-oriented and trauma-informed.

Peer Workers employed at Peninsula Health receive professional support, training and supervision to assist them in their role.

For further information about the role, please see the position description.

**What You Need**

We anticipate you will have:
Essential criteria:

- Personal experience of mental health challenges or distress and recovery
- Ability to share lived/living experience and expertise to ensure care is consumer-led, recovery-oriented and trauma-informed
- Ability to develop and maintain strong working relationships (internally and externally)
- Commitment to own professional development

Desirable criteria:

- Experience as a Peer Worker within a mental health setting
- Completion of Certificate IV in Mental Health Peer Work or similar qualification (or currently undertaking)
- Completion of Intentional Peer Support (or willingness to undertake

**What Next**

If you experience any issues signing in or registering, please feel welcome to contact us - the People, Experience & Performance Team on (03) 9784 2700.

**Additional Requirements**

This role must be fully vaccinated for Covid-19 and meet the requirements of the Peninsula Health immunisation policy.

**Join Peninsula Health and help us to deliver safe, personal, effective & connected care to every person, every time. **Selection Criteria

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