Consumer Peer Worker

4 days ago

Melbourne, Australia The Royal Melbourne Hospital Full time

-Location: Melbourne | CBD
Job type: Part time
Organisation: The Royal Melbourne Hospital
Salary: Salary not specified
Occupation: Administration/Secretarial, Health and Allied Health, Research, Family Violence Workers, Medical, Nursing
Reference: 68488

**Consumer Peer Support Worker**

**Sunshine Adult Acute Psychiatric Unit (SAAPU)
- **Part Time Ongoing position b**ased at Sunshine Hospital**:

- ** Work alongside the consumer during their admission and discharge**:

- ** Be an active collaborator, complementing the professional knowledge of clinical staff**
- SAAPU is a 29-bed unit located at Sunshine Hospital providing acute mental health care to the communities of Brimbank, Melton & Sunbury.
- As Consumer Peer Support Worker you will work within the Inpatient Psychiatric Unit focussing on supporting the consumer during their admission and contributing to discharge planning.

**Your new role**:

- Work with current consumers and their families / carers providing peer support post discharge from the inpatient unit.
- Complete post discharge contact with consumers via phone or face to face meetings in the community
- Collaborate with members of the interdisciplinary team to create the best plan of action for each inpatient
- Develop, review and provide information resources for consumers and their families

**About you**:

- Well-developed communication and interpersonal skills, including the ability to consult, liaise and work collaboratively with consumers, their families / carers and service staff
- Draw on your own lived / living experience in working alongside consumers
- Ability to work independently in an organised manner and take direction for daily activities
- An understanding of current Victorian mental health service systems of service delivery and issues, including clinical and community systems (e.g. MHCSS)

**Benefit of working with NorthWestern Mental Health**:

- Career progression opportunities to suit your professional development goals.
- Enjoy excellent work-life balance working in a supportive and collaborative team
- Salary packaging benefits - up to 12k tax free

**Interested?**

If you are looking for a challenging role and can demonstrate the above capabilities, connect with us via the details below.

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