Consumer Peer Support Worker

**Alfred Health**

Alfred Health is a leader in health care delivery, improvement, research and education. We are the main provider of health services to people living in the inner southeast suburbs of Melbourne, from ambulatory to inpatient and home and community-based services.
- Are you someone with your own lived experience of mental health challenges?_
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Part-time, 4 days/wk (extended hours service including weekend work) to June 2026**:

- ** Lived Experience Worker Level 2 or 3 - depending on experience**:

- ** Located at Ramsay Clinic Albert Road - Women's Recovery Network (WREN)**:
**What's in it for you**
- ** Frequent professional development opportunities and regular professional supervision**:

- ** Supportive multi-disciplinary team environment**

**About us**

Alfred Mental & Addiction Health (AMAH) is responsible for the operation of services, which focus on people with a severe mental illness residing in the Inner South Eastern area of Melbourne.

The single most important goal of AMAH is to create an environment that facilitates clinical recovery, supports individual recovery efforts and strives to minimise service system barriers to the recovery process.

WREN is an innovative project being developed in response to the Royal Commission recommendations for partnerships between the public and private sector, and the need for gender segregation and sexually safe units.

We recognise that women experiencing mental ill-health have specific needs that differ from their male counterparts that require tailored treatment and support.

Our 30-bed facility located at Albert Road Clinic will be run in a partnership between Ramsay Health and Alfred Health.

The unit will provide a state-wide comprehensive specialist service for women and those who identify as women experiencing severe mental ill-health and trauma. Our care will be trauma informed and wellness focused.

You can read more about WREN here [ABC Article] and here (Premier announcement).

**What you’ll be doing**

As an integral and highly valued member of the multi-disciplinary team, you will provide formalised peer support and practical assistance to service users, to support them through their own unique recovery process. Within a relationship of mutuality and information sharing, you will promote choice, self-determination, hope and opportunities to seek or maintain socially valued roles and connections in their local communities.

This role can offer a unique perspective on recovery that requires a different approach than mainstream clinical mental health service delivery.

You will have responsibility for the guidance of level 2 consumer peer workers and integrating strong processes that support consumer perspective recovery by outlining their specific functions, importance and benefits across the multidiscipline teams.

**About you**
- Lived experience of your own mental challenges and a rich understanding of your own processes of recovery that inspires hope and belief in recovery - essential
- A willingness to purposefully use your own story to help others further their own understanding of recovery - essential
- Formal qualifications are not mandatory for this role but may be helpful - Certificate IV in Peer Work, Cert IV in Mental Health, Intentional Peer Support training
- 2-5 years’ experience (minimum) in peer work or lived experience roles
- Australian working rights
- Full Covid-19 and 2024 Influenza vaccinations
- Current Working with Children Check and be willing to undergo a Background Check

**Other benefits**
- Portable long service leave from other public health services
- Salary Packaging & Novated Leasing through Maxxia.
- Flexible Heath Insurance coverage through HCF Health Insurance
- Located close to public transport and cafes

If this opportunity sounds like it is for you, click the **APPLY **button, include your resume and cover letter.

**Applications Close: 11pm AEST, Monday 9th September 2024**

Alfred Health is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to attracting and retaining a diverse workforce that reflects the community we serve. Applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders are encouraged.

In accordance with the Health Minister's Covid-19 Mandatory Vaccination Order, all Alfred Health employees are required to be fully vaccinated (3 doses) for COVID-19 or hold an acceptable medical exemption. Furthermore, in accordance with the Health Services Amendment (Mandatory Vaccination of Healthcare Workers) Act 2020, health care workers in Category A or B roles (as determined by the department’s risk ratings) are required to be vaccinated against influenza or hold an acceptable medical exemption.

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