Consumer Peer Worker

**Employment Type**:Permanent Part Time
**Position Classification**: Health Education Officer - Non Grad
**Remuneration**: $60,373.00 - $87,304.00 per annum, pro rata (+ super + 17.5% leave loading where applicable)
**Hours per Week**:up to 20
**Requisition ID**: REQ504916
**Applications Close**:15 November 2024
**Vaccination Category**:A

**Outstanding Experiences. Infinite Opportunities.**

**Here in the Riverina, we treasure your skills and experience and we’re ready to roll out the red carpet to welcome you to town.**

**We’ve prepared **oodles of goodies** to help you move and settle in, including**:

- Salary packaging up to $20,600 per annum tax free for living expenses Take advantage of novated leasing a new car
- Relocation assistance and accommodation support considerations
- Subsidised gym and leisure centre membership for you and your family
- Free confidential counselling services for you and your family
- Flexible working arrangements, choose your own hours

Craving a fresh start somewhere new and actually interesting? Join the incredible team in the Murrumbidgee District. Jump in at a comfort level that suits you: from state-of-the-art hospital that will remind you of the city, to small multi-disciplinary health facility where you literally get to do it all. No matter where you choose, your learning will be nurtured and you’ll be well supported to operate at the top of your scope.

And don’t worry - there are already oodles of young people here to welcome you: at work, in local clubs, at the pub, and down at the river

There’s heaps to show your family when they come to visit, which is a breeze - you’ll be central to Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra. (You can always pop home for the weekend on a quick flight if you find a break in your social calendar)

Want to know more about the community of Wagga Wagga? Visit us here.

**About Your Role**

The Consumer Peer Worker (Community Mental Health) will:

- draw upon their own lived experience of mental health challenges and personal recovery journey to provide peer support and advocacy to people accessing specialist Community Mental Health and Drug & Alcohol (MHDA) services across the lifespan
- use a strengths-based, trauma informed approach which holds the person at the centre of care whilst recognising the unique nature and boundaries of the role within the multi-disciplinary team
- aim to develop rapport with consumers to engender an atmosphere of trust, empathy, respect, hope and encouragement with those accessing the specialist community MHDA services.

Where relevant the Consumer Peer Worker will:

- actively and appropriately share knowledge gained through one’s personal lived experience of mental ill health and recovery
- aim to support the consumer to maintain their mental health and wellbeing, by promoting collaborative decision making, engagement, choice and empowerment in their individual treatment and recovery.

The Consumer Peer Worker is responsible and accountable to the local Specialist Community Mental Health (CMH) Team Leader and will work collaboratively as part of the CMH multidisciplinary team to implement effective and planned peer led recovery activities as agreed and appropriate within the service. The MLHD MHDA Coordinator, Consumer Participation Strategy will work alongside the CMH Manager and the CMH Team Leaders to provide strategic direction to the consumer peer workforce, and guidance and regular supervision to the Consumer Peer Worker in relation to their roles and professional development.

Learn more about the role and requirements here.

**Upgrade Your Career and Lifestyle at MLHD**
- MLHD is an Equal Opportunity Employer and encourage all suitably qualified applicants to apply, including Aboriginal People and people from racial, ethnic, or ethno-religious minority groups and people with disability._

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