Ops2 Peer Specialist

5 days ago


Greater Adelaide SA, Australia SA Health Full time

**Job no**: 880886
**Work type**: Part time
**Location**: Adelaide Metro Southern
**Categories**: Community Services, Mental Health, Public Health
- Southern Adelaide Local Health Network - Flinders Medical Centre - Margaret Tobin Centre
- Salary $58,709 - $63,154 p.a. (Pro Rata) OPS2 | Part Time 13.87 hours p.w. - Ongoing

**Are you an experienced Peer Specialist ready to take on a rewarding role in the Southern Adelaide Local Health Network?**

The Margaret Tobin Centre is a 38 bed mental health inpatient area consisting of an 8 bed Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit and two Acute Care Units that can admit a total of 30 consumers.

This role will include line management, coordination and leadership of the nursing team and/or multi-disciplinary team activities, including where relevant, such local resource management as to achieve continuity and quality of patient/client care and outcomes.

**About the role**:
Reporting to the Nurse Unit Manager, as the Peer Specialist you will be a key component of recovery oriented mental health service delivery. Duties for the role will include:

- Draw from personal lived experience of mental health challenges and recovery journey to role model recovery and act as a recovery champion,
- Provide guidance and support to consumers as they self-define and self-determine their mental health experience, narratives and identities,
- Assist to increase cultural safety in the mental health care experience of diverse consumers, including First Nations Australians and Culturally and Linguistically Diverse communities,
- Support consumers to articulate their needs and goals, and the way in which they want to receive support, and advocate for the inclusion of this in care planning and service delivery.

**About you**:

- Skills in building connected and authentic trusting relationships with consumers and in modelling relatable recovery pathways,
- Personal lived experience of mental health challenges and recovery,
- Understanding and/or experience of the challenges associated with experiencing acute mental illness and the implications for personal recovery.

Please see the attached Role Description for additional information.

**Application Closing Date**:11.55 pm Friday 15th November 2024

**Attachments**:

- 880886 - OPS2 Peer Specialist MTC - Role Description
- Australian applicant guidelines
- International applicant guidelines

**Applicant Information**:

- We also offer salary sacrifice benefits which provide the opportunity to save money by paying for some of your everyday expenses from your salary before it is taxed. Click here to find out more about salary packaging.
- The South Australian public sector promotes diversity and flexible ways of working including part-time. Applicants are encouraged to discuss the flexible working arrangements for this role.
- SA Health Services are required to implement the Addressing vaccine preventable disease: Occupational assessment, screening and vaccination policy in the workplace.
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants are encouraged to apply. Job ref**:880886**

**Advertised**: 31 Oct 2024 Cen. Australia Daylight Time
**Applications close**: 15 Nov 2024 11:55 PM Cen. Australia Daylight Time


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