Peer Support Worker

1 week ago

Sunshine Coast, Australia Queensland Health Full time

An exciting opportunity exists for a Peer Support Worker to facilitate the delivery of support to consumers of the Sunshine Coast Persistent Pain Management Service (SC PPMS). A Peer Support Worker assists consumers, carers and families, service providers and Non-Government Organisations to develop a better understanding of the self-management treatment approach for persistent pain while utilising a lived experience of persistent pain to work towards achieving the best outcomes for consumers.
A Peer Support Worker with First Nations background is preferable as this position will be providing support directly in the community to First Nations people with lived experience of persistent pain as well as other vulnerable groups.
Sunshine Coast Hospital and Health Service (SCHHS) is in southeast Queensland and extends through the coastal and hinterland areas from Caloundra in the south and Gympie in the north.
The SCHHS is a values-based organisation. We are committed to the maintenance of a culture in which we treat our colleagues with respect as we do our patients, consumers and the community. We respect, protect and promote human rights in our decision-making and actions.

**Key Responsibilities include**:

- Utilising experience, skills and knowledge in; consumer education, support and provide a responsive framework that meets the needs of consumers.
- Provide individualised, one-to-one peer connection, practical assistance and education, drawing on your own lived/living experience of persistent pain, service-use and self-management and your professional experience as a Peer Support Worker (if any).
- Build safe, trusting relationships with consumers based on shared lived/living experience and the principles and values of peer support work.
- Serve as a positive role model to consumers and workers and as a source of information on the lived experience of managing persistent pain.
- Strengthen the quality and continuation of culturally competent care for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander consumers, in collaboration with Non-Government Organisations and assist with building their capacity to provide service to consumers with persistent pain.

Identified positions - Under section 25 of the Anti-Discrimination Act 1991 (Qld), it is a genuine occupational requirement for the incumbent to identify to the Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander Community.
Why work for us?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 Queensland Health 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.
As a Sunshine Coast Health employee, you will receive competitive remuneration and have access to: - A wellness program;
- Generous superannuation;
- Flexible work arrangements;
- Career training and development; and
- Salary packaging.

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