Lived Experience Worker
3 days ago
Adult Community Mental Health - Lived Experience Worker - Consumer Support
- **Peer Support Worker - Consumer**:
- **Permanent - Full-time or Part-Time**:
- **Based in Heidelberg**:
- **Member of the North East Area Mental Health Service (NEAMHS) Continuing Care Service (CCS)**
**About Austin Health**:
Austin Health is the major provider of tertiary health services, health professional education and research across 3 campuses in the northeast of Melbourne and state-wide. Austin Health is world-renowned for its research and specialist work in cancer, liver transplantation, spinal cord injuries, neurology, endocrinology, mental health and rehabilitation.
**Your new team**:
CCS is a multidisciplinary team of highly passionate, experienced, supportive, collaborative and enthusiastic mental health professionals. Our values underpin everything we do. This role is a unique opportunity to have a real impact in meeting the needs of one of our community’s most complex and vulnerable cohorts. You will form solid working-relationships within the pre-existing community teams, and foster strong therapeutic relationships with our clients & their carers.
We support rehabilitation goals through the use of best evidence-based frameworks and assertive case management.
**Your contribution**:
- Provide one to one peer support to consumers using personal lived experience to provide a model of hope and recovery, including direct and over the phone support.
- Assist CCS consumers with recovery and wellness planning to help gain a sense of control and empowerment over their lives by building on strengths and resources.
- In collaboration, contribute to the development and review of consumers discharge plans to address needs that impact on discharge into the community.
- Contribute your unique range of personal skills and knowledge to the consumer group during groups and activities/appointments held during usual operating hours
**Our Commitment to You**:
- We foster a culture that celebrates and respects each and every person
- Generous salary packaging program to maximise your take-home pay
- Conveniently located near public transport
- Short stroll to the Burgundy Street shopping district
- Career development opportunities
- We support work-life balance through:
- Opportunity to purchase additional leave
- Health and wellbeing support
- Employee Assistance Program
Questions? Don’t hesitate to reach out We are happy to discuss your future with us.
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