Advanced Peer Worker

1 day ago

Brisbane, Australia Queensland Health Full time

Metro South Health is Australia's first digital health service and one of the largest in Queensland, with an estimated residential population of approximately one million people or 23 per cent of Queensland's population.
This is your opportunity to join the dedicated team of professionals at Metro South Health and be part of a world-class, dynamic and growing health service that embraces technology, excellence in health care, teaching, research and empowering our people to be the best in serving our community.
About the Role
Through sharing the learnings and wisdom from the personal lived experience perspective:

- Partner with the team to develop, deliver and evaluate the Community Wellbeing Program's education program and activities
- Assist consumers within Adult Mental Health Services, key service providers and non-government organisations to develop a better understanding of the recovery framework
- Inspire and support consumers through formalised peer support, practical assistance, tailored education, information, referrals and support to learn the skills and knowledge to build resilience for mental and physical healthcare needs and to engage in their community
- Provide guidance and mentoring to the Peer Workers within the Community Wellbeing Program.

Our ICARE² values of Integrity, Compassion, Accountability, Respect, Engagement and Excellence, shape our culture within Metro South Health. Our values guide our day-to-day decision making and are fundamental to what we care about as a health service, how we behave, how we interact with each other and provide care to the many patients who come through our doors every day.
We offer rewarding career opportunities across a wide range of clinical and non-clinical areas across our health service and pride ourselves on providing a work environment that is safe, satisfying, flexible, and promotes a healthy work-life balance.
As a Metro South employee, you will benefit from a higher than standard employer contribution to Superannuation of up to 12.75%, access to salary packaging, flexible working arrangements and competitive salary rates with annual incremental increases.
It is a condition of employment for this role for the employee to be, and remain, vaccinated against COVID-19 Health Employment Directive No. 12/21and Queensland Health Human Resources Policy B70.

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