Advanced Carer Peer Worker

About the role
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The Advanced Carer Peer Worker (ACPW) Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital (RBWH) Psychiatric Emergency Centre (PEC) will work with families and carers of people presenting in mental health crisis, who are attending RBWH PEC.
The ACPW will use their lived experience as a carer of a person with mental illness and recovery to facilitate the development, planning and delivery of support to families and carers of people presenting in mental health crisis, who are attending RBWH PEC.
The ACPW will use their lived experience as a carer of a person with mental illness and recovery, to model strategies to families and carers of people presenting in mental health crisis, who are attending RBWH PEC.
The ACPW will use their lived experience as a carer of a person with mental illness and recovery to model strategies that enable the RBWH PEC multidisciplinary team to develop a better understanding to support families and carers to achieve the best outcomes for people admitted to RBWH PEC.
The ACPW will work in collaboration with the RBWH PEC multidisciplinary team to facilitate comprehensive assessment, treatment, and care in the context of family and carer support from a lived experience perspective.
The ACPW will provide direct support to families and carers of people presenting in mental health crisis whilst at RBWH PEC and in transfer of care, if the family or carer's loved one is admitted to the Mental Health Inpatient Unit.
About you
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How we do things is as important as what we do therefore you will be assessed on your ability to demonstrate the following key technical and behavioural capabilities, knowledge and experience. Within the context of the responsibilities described above under Key Accountabilities, the ideal applicant will be someone who can demonstrate the following:
Within the context of the purpose of this role and key accountabilities described above, the ideal applicant will be someone who can demonstrate the following:

- Demonstrated experience and knowledge of family and peer work principles, recovery principles, trauma informed care and strength-based approaches.
- Demonstrated well developed communication skills and ability to work as part of a multidisciplinary team.
- Demonstrated ability to maintain professional boundaries.
- Demonstrated skills in computer literacy.
- Demonstrated ability to advocate for families and carers of people presenting in mental health crisis.
- Demonstrated ability to plan and deliver wellbeing education programs and groups.
- Demonstrated ability to share lived experience as a carer of people presenting in mental health crisis, to support families, carers and staff to develop their own understanding of recovery.

Benefits when working for us
- Rewarding career and development opportunities across a wide range of clinical and non-clinical areas
- Value driven organisation which provides a work environment that is safe, satisfying, flexible, and promotes a healthy work-life balance
- Flexible working arrangements and competitive salary rates with annual incremental increases
- Benefit from a higher than standard employer contribution to Superannuation of up to 12.75% and access to salary packaging

**Job ad reference number**: MN552032Close date: Wednesday 27/03/24
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