Consumer Peer Worker

**Title**:Consumer Peer Worker**:

- Requisition ID: 2980
- Location: Ringwood East, VIC, AU, 3135 Box Hill, VIC, AU, 3128
- Job Posting Date: 4 Mar 2025

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**Consumer Peer Worker (Brief Intervention including Suicide Prevention)**
- Join a well-established Lived Experience Peer workforce team | Permanent Part-Time
- Based at Ringwood (occasional Box Hill) | Carparking and close to public transport
- Monthly Team building activity | Salary packaging options | 32 hours a week

**Eastern Health**

Eastern Health is one of Melbourne’s largest public health services. We provide a range of emergency, surgical, medical and general healthcare services and have a proud history of serving a diverse community.

Our Employee Value Proposition is “Being a part of Eastern Health means belonging to a welcoming team of healthcare experts”.

This statement aligns with our promise to our communities, patients, consumers and staff that we will be HEALTHIER TOGETHER. Bolder than a vision for the future, our promise calls us to action. We know that working together is the only way we can achieve what is necessary for a healthier future.

**About the role**
Eastern Health, Mental Health and Wellbeing Program has developed a Brief Intervention Team (BIT) which incorporates a suicide prevention stream (Hospital Outreach Post-suicide attempt Engagement - HOPE). A key component of the Consumer Peer Worker role is offering to people referred to the Brief Intervention Team, peer support using the Intentional Peer Support framework and a recovery-oriented perspective. Supervision will be provided by the Senior Consumer Peer Worker.

The Consumer Peer Worker works in close collaboration with other team members in offering care and support to people referred. Peer workers support consumers to be involved in decision making about their own care and treatment; and build understanding of the effectiveness of the peer workforce. The role is mainly based within the BIT service; and also operates as part of a broader lived experience workforce team.

For more information on our Lived Experience Workforce, please visit our website.

**About you**
To be successful in this role you will possess:

- Lived experience or expertise as a service user who has accessed public mental health services.
- Understanding of mental health peer work support principles and ability to use peer support to provide hope, a belief in recovery and the value of self-care.
- Experience in mental health lived experience/expertise role (peer work).
- Experience in suicide prevention peer work (desirable).
- Highly developed interpersonal skills and qualities.
- A strong commitment to high quality care
- The ability to work as part of a diverse team
- Excellent communication and organisational skills

Healthcare workers are strongly recommended to follow COVID vaccination recommendations provided in the Australian Immunisation handbook (based on ATAGI advice). Seasonal vaccination against influenza is a mandatory requirement of this role and an offer is conditional on this being up to date prior to employment.

**What we offer**

Eastern Health offers a variety of fantastic Employee Benefits, view the extensive range here
- Diverse and engaging career opportunities
- Friendly & supportive team
- Flexible working hours
- Salary packaging options
- Career progression in our teaching hospitals

**Next Steps**

Good to know:

- We are an equal opportunity employer and actively promote equality for people of all races, ethnicities, gender identities, sexual orientations, and for people living with disabilities - within the communities we serve and our Eastern Health team.
- We provide a culturally safe and welcoming environment for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander employees.
- As a child-safe organisation, we ensure child safety and wellbeing is embedded in our everyday culture.
- Vaccination and screening for immunity to vaccine-preventable disease is a mandatory requirement of this role.
- Advertising may end before the closing date.

**Please**

Contact Person: Beck Garbutt

Contact Number: 0466 029 336

Job Posting End Date: 2/4/25

Just contact the Hiring Manager in the advertisement or call the Talent Acquisition Team on (03) 9955 7555 (Option 1)

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