Lived Experience

**Title**:Lived Experience (Carer) Peer Support Worker**:

- Requisition ID: 3265
- Location: Ringwood East, VIC, AU, 3135
- Job Posting Date: 10 Apr 2025

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**Lived Experience Carer Peer Worker
- PARC Maroondah**
- 30.4 hours per fortnight | Level 2 Year 1-4 | Salary + Super + Salary Packaging Options
- Prevention And Recovery Care (PARC) in Maroondah | Close to public transport
- Culture of learning and improvement | Partner in care at a leading health service

**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 Healthier Together promise underpins our strategic plan - which is to serve the growing and changing needs of our community and to care about and develop our staff. We believe our people make the difference.

**About the role**

Are you a carer of a family member or friend who has used adult public mental health services?

Are you passionate about carers and families having a voice and receiving the best possible supports?

An exciting opportunity now exists for an experienced Carer Peer Worker to take up a role within Eastern Health’s Mental health and Wellbeing service.

The Carer Peer Worker shall work collaboratively with other staff and management to ensure the best possible support and participation opportunities for carers and families. This role requires independent and autonomous work practices.

**About you**

To be successful in this role, you will have:

- Lived experience as a family member, carer or supporter of someone who has experienced mental health challenges and has used public mental health services
- An in-depth understanding of the Family-Carer movement and a strong drive to improve family and carer experiences with mental health services
- Demonstrated ability work systemically, drawing on your lived experience expertise to inform organisational policies that will benefit carers and families
- Excellent communication and organisational skills
- The ability to work as part of a diverse team

Vaccination against infectious disease is a mandatory requirement of this role. An offer of employment is conditional on you providing evidence that you are currently vaccinated against COVID-19 with booster & Influenza, prior to commencing 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 disability - 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.

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Contact Person: Nina Cook

Contact Number: 0400 877 951

Just contact the Hiring Manager in the advertisement or call the Talent Acquisition Team on (03) 9955 7555 (Option 1) | Medical Workforce Unit on (03) 9895 3469. [TA for Non Medical roles, MWU for Medical roles]

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