
Consumer Peer Worker
2 days ago
Job Description
**Posting Start Date**:06/11/2024**Req ID**:2024**Job Title**:Consumer Peer Worker - Psychiatric Planning and Assessment Unit (PAPU)**Employment Status**:Permanent Part Time**Job Location**:Frankston- **Great team, respectful culture & supportive management**:
- **Skip the traffic & work close to home in Frankston, gateway to the gorgeous Mornington Peninsula**:
- **Excellent salary packaging benefits, discounted onsite parking and employee benefits program**
- **Classification Range: Lived Experience Level 2 Year 1-4 (MP32-MP35)**
**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**
Lived Experience Peer Worker works closely with clinical, allied health and other peer work staff. As key members of the multi-disciplinary treatment team, Lived Experience Peer Workers share their experience and expertise to ensure care is consumer-led, recovery-orientated and trauma-informed.
You are an empathetic listener who promotes hope, choice and connection in your relationships with others, and will be providing 1:1 support to consumers, you will also lead the co-design and co-facilitation of peer support groups to enhance consumer recovery and wellbeing.
For a further indepth view of the role, please see - **Position Description**
**What You Need** We anticipate you will have:
- Must have and be willing to work from a lived experience of mental health concerns/psychological distress and/or co-occurring MH/AOD concerns
- Have (or be undertaking) relevant Peer Work discipline qualification/training (ie. Certificate IV in Peer Work, IPS or similar)
- Understanding of and ability to work from recovery-oriented, trauma-informed approaches support consumers’ sense of dignity and self determination
**What Next**
If you experience any issues signing in or registering, please feel welcome to contact us - the People Experience Team on (03) 9784 2700. For further information please contact Vanessa Mackay 0n 9784 3059.
**_Applications Close: 20 November 2024_**
**Additional Requirements**
We encourage you to talk to us about any adjustments or additional support you may require during the recruitment process.
- Please refer to salary circular for for salary range VICTORIAN PUBLIC MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES ENTERPRISE AGREEMENT 2021-2024. Sub-grading will be based on years of experience.
**Join Peninsula Health and help us to deliver safe, personal, effective & connected care to every person, every time.
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