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Peer Worker or Mental Health Worker

2 weeks ago

Marrickville, Australia Flourish Australia Full time

**Flourish Australia** has an exciting opportunity for a **Peer Worker or Mental Health Worker** to join our Community Businesses team in **Marrickville**

The position available is:

- **Ongoing Full-time (76 hours/fortnight)**:

- Working** Monday to Friday**:

- Based in **Marrickville**:

- **Attractive hourly rates** equivalent to SCHCADS Level 3 **$36.00 - $38.60p/h + 11% Super + Tax-Free Salary Packaging**

**About the Community Businesses**:

- **Social**: to create a recovery and reintegration pathway for people with mental health issues through various employment activities.
- **Economic**: to operate the business on a commercially sustainable basis of profitable growth whilst simultaneously offering employment opportunities for people.
- **Product**: to provide a range of commercial industry-standard products that meet the expectations and needs of targeted markets.
- **Support**: to increase awareness of mental health issues and to encourage businesses to support the Community Businesses.

For more information on how our Community Businesses provide recovery-focused employment and support, please visit our website.

**About the Opportunity**:
Flourish Australia’s Community Businesses provide vocational support and training within a commercial environment to people with lived experience of mental health issues. They achieve this goal by tailoring meaningful employment activities that support an employee’s vocational journey with practical on the job training and a group based learning experience. These vocational activities culminate into achieving the Community Businesses objective of transitioning employees into open employment.

The objectives of our community businesses are to provide a supportive working environment where people can:

- Reconnect gradually with employment and earn an award-based wage;
- Gain or enhance the social skills required to operate successfully as an employee;
- Learn about recovery and how to improve their physical and mental health and wellbeing, and plan their recovery journey with support from a peer worker; and
- Gain useful trade or industrial skills and qualifications relevant to future working opportunities.

A Peer Worker or Mental Health Worker working in Flourish Australia’s Community Businesses provides a high quality and responsive person-led, recovery-oriented and trauma informed service that best supports people to maintain meaningful employment. The Peer Worker or Mental Health Worker will provide workplace supports to people with NDIS plans and defined employment goals.

We value lived experience and believe peer support is a powerful part of the mental health recovery journey. Therefore, our **Peer Worker** roles are for those willing to use their lived experience and personal recovery to mentor people with a lived experience of a mental health issue. You will use your lived experience to inform and contribute to staff learning, service understanding, and delivering person-led, strengths focused, recovery based service.

For more information about what it means to be a **Peer Worker** with Flourish Australia, please review the Position Description and the Peer Worker information statement “What You Should Consider Before Becoming A Peer Worker”.

For more information on the** Mental Health Worker** role, please read the Position Description.

**Who we are**:
Flourish Australia operates social enterprises and community businesses with the purpose of creating sustainable employment, vocational and training opportunities for people with mental health issues. We work in local communities to help people on their mental health recovery journey.

Our services are comprehensive and highly personalised because each person’s experience will be different and their needs, as an individual, are unique. Together we set goals, connect individuals with the right people, support services and opportunities to meet their needs.

**Selection Criteria**:

- Essential:_
- A Certificate IV or above in a relevant field OR a minimum of 2-years full-time experience working in the human services field (as recognised by Flourish Australia).
- A strong commitment to recovery-based practice in the workplace.
- Understanding of the challenges faced by people with a lived experience of a mental health issue.
- Demonstrated alignment to Flourish Australia’s values.
- Understanding of, and ability to effectively use, Microsoft Office and knowledge of data information management systems.
- Maintain a current Australian Driver’s Licence.

**The Benefits**:
Flourish Australia recognises and values its people as demonstrated by:

- **Level 3 (SCHCADS) **on the Flourish Australia Enterprise Agreement (2018)
- **Tax-Free Salary Packaging** up to $15,900
- **Vehicle mileage allowance**:

- Family-friendly and **flexible working conditions**:

- **Generous leave provisions **including **17.5% leave loading + 2 additional days of personal leave + extra day paid leave over C