Carer Peer Practitioner

3 days ago

Parkville, Australia The Royal Melbourne Hospital Full time

Job Description
- Carer Peer Practitioner

**Req ID**:2388

**Posting Start Date**:16/12/2024

**Advertisement End Date**:16/01/2025

**Work Location**:The RMH Parkville (City campus)

The Royal Melbourne Hospital is one of Australia’s leading public healthcare providers. Join the team. Build a career. We are looking for a passionate and dedicated individual to join The Royal Melbourne Hospital.

**Carer Peer Practitioner Level 3 - Open Dialogue Community Mental Health**
- Exciting new opportunity piloting the Open Dialogue approach
- **Use your lived experience as a carer supporting an adult with mental ill health, AOD or psychological distress**
- **An ongoing part-time role located in Carlton**
- **Be a part of a team delivering support that is social network focussed and enables supported decision making**

This role is a key member of the Royal Melbourne Hospital Mental Health Services (RMH MHS) Inner Melbourne Community Mental Health Team; a new team providing mental health, treatment, care, and support in the City of Melbourne area (Carlton, North Melbourne, CBD). The team will provide an innovative integrated Open Dialogue Model of Care as part of a translational research project under the auspices of the Victorian Collaborative Centre of Mental Health and Wellbeing. The team will include both clinical and lived and living experiences peer support workforce with a focus on participation of the consumers support network from the beginning of their engagement with the team.

**Your new role**:

- Co-facilitate Open Dialogue network meetings with the consumer and their support networks to understand their experience, needs and collaboratively develop a treatment plan
- Respond to people in crisis as well as provide support to family, carers, supporters and kin.
- Work collaboratively with the multidisciplinary team, lived experience leads, external service providers, including our academic partners who will be leading an evaluation research project for the pilot

**About you**:

- You would have a significant personal lived experience of supporting an adult with mental ill health, AOD or psychological distress.
- At least two years in a carer lived experience role
- A willingness to share your caring experience within network meetings through reflections with your co-facilitator
- Experience mentoring other support workers
- An understanding of the policies and procedures associated with the Mental Health Act and other relevant legislation, particularly related to carer rights

**Benefits of working with The Royal Melbourne Hospital**:

- Group and individual carer Le perspective Supervision with the wider Carer LE team
- Training and ongoing support in the practice of Open Dialogue
- Project located conveniently in Carlton close to public transport

**Interested?**

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

For a confidential discussion please connect via the details below:
**Helen Searle**

**Director Carer Lived Experience**

**Royal Melbourne Hospital Mental Health Services**

**(Monday-Wednesday) 0457 340 903**

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