Family/carer Peer Worker

3 days ago

Melbourne, Australia The Royal Melbourne Hospital Full time

-Location: Melbourne | Western Metropolitan
Job type: Part time
Organisation: The Royal Melbourne Hospital
Salary: Salary not specified
Occupation: Health and Allied Health
Reference: 74718

**Family/Carer Peer Worker
- **Ongoing part-time role | 2 days per week**:

- ** Based in Sunshine and Wyndham**:

- ** Excellent team culture and development opportunities**

**Your new team**

Orygen Specialist Program, a program of The Royal Melbourne Hospital, pro0vides mental health services to young people aged 15-25 and their families/carers in Melbourne's northwest and western suburbs.
- The Orygen Continuing Care Team in Sunshine and Wyndham provide access to outpatient community care by a multidisciplinary team ensuring comprehensive, collaborative and coordinated care.
- **Your new role**

In this role, you will offer support to families, friends and carers of young people in the Wyndham and Melton areas. In this role, you will also:

- Draw on your Lived Experience of supporting your family member/significant other and offer empathetic listening, providing peer support and information
- Work collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team and provide lived experience specific values and perspective
- Have a broad understanding of the differing perspectives of the impact of mental illness health on families/carers and the community Provide inclusive and sensitive practice to young people and their families/carers from Aboriginal/Torres Strait Islander, CALD and LGBTQIA+ backgrounds

**About you**:

- Personal lived experience as a family, carer or supporter of someone who has accessed public mental health services, preferably a youth mental health service.
- Are determined to make a difference to the health outcomes for young people.
- Qualifications/training in mental health are desirable but not essential.

**Benefits of working with us**:

- You will enjoy excellent work-life balance. We want you to stay long term
- Join us during this inspiring time of growth and change - career progression opportunities to suit your professional development goals.
- Salary packaging, onsite car parking and close to public transport.
- Comprehensive Health & Wellbeing Programs including; Staff Medical Service, Employee Assistance Program, Peer Support Program - run by our dedicated employees
- **Interested?**

If you are looking for a varied and interesting role with scope to develop a range of skills, and you can demonstrate the above capabilities, connect with us for a confidential discussion.

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