Consumer Peer Work Team Leader, Inpatient Services

6 days ago

Melbourne, Australia Monash Health Full time

Location: Melbourne | Southern Metropolitan

Job type: Full time

Organisation: Monash Health

**Salary**: Salary not specified

Occupation: Nursing

Reference: 56193

**About Monash Health**

**About the Role and You**

Looking for the next challenge in your career as a consumer peer worker? Interested in a leadership role? We are looking for an enthusiastic and experienced consumer peer worker to manage the consumer peer workforce across our inpatient mental health services.

Working alongside the inpatient family/carer peer work team leader, you will be responsible for providing operational management of the inpatient peer workforce, including the recruitment, orientation, and ongoing professional development of staff. You will also be responsible for providing reflective supervision to the consumer peer workforce. You will also work closely with the Nurse Unit Managers to ensure the peer workers are effectively embedded within the multidisciplinary inpatient team. You will have lived experience of mental illness and recovery, experience of undertaking direct peer work with consumers, and skills in mentoring and supervising others.

**Location**

The position will be based in Dandenong, but will be required to travel across all sites, and so a full driving license is required.

**What’s in it for you?**

You will be part of a dynamic changing environment that will have future growth. You will also have access to a range of corporate benefits, including salary packaging options that can significantly increase your take home pay and access to subside staff car parking.

Monash Health recognises the value of equal employment opportunity and is committed to patient safety and promoting fairness, equity and diversity in the workplace. At Monash Health we are relentless in our pursuit of excellence and work to our six guiding principles.

**How to Apply**

Monash Health recognises the value of equal employment opportunity and is committed to patient safety and promoting fairness, equity, and diversity in the workplace. At Monash Health we are relentless in our pursuit of excellence and work to our six guiding principles.

Offers of employment can only be made once all required probity checks have been completed. These include:

- reference checks;
- a clear Police Check conducted within the last three months;
- a current Victorian Employee Working with Children’s Check (or proof of payment for same);and
- proof of immunisation.

A request to conduct probity checks does not guarantee that an offer of employment will be made.

Under the Victorian Public Health orders, all employees working within the Public Health system must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and Influenza and are required to provide acceptable evidence of their vaccination status. The current orders require evidence of three doses for COVID-19.

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