Peer Worker

**About Us**:
We’re leaders in mental health service delivery, specialising in working with adults and young people, and in early childhood intervention.

Stride is a name that expresses our ambition - it’s a name that’s purposeful and shows awareness of the important role we play in the recovery journey.

As we embark on the next stage of our journey, join us to make a difference. We're here to Stride.

**About the service**:
The Wollongong Mental Health Hub is a brand-new community mental health and wellbeing service, providing community outreach and in HUB supports. We are open to everyone in the community for mental health support. Participants can access a range of community mental health support services; clinical mental health services; care coordination and Peer supports.

**On offer**:

- Based in Wollongong, NSW
- 3 days per week, 12-month contract opportunity
- Paying on SCHADs Level 3 plus Super
- Salary Packaging options (up to $15,899 tax free)
- Meals and entertainment allowance of up to $2,650
- Leave loading at 17.5%
- Stride Rewards - access to discounts from 100s of retailers (fashion, food and fitness)
- Excellent training and development
- Supportive team environment

**Role Overview**:
This is an exciting opportunity for two passionate identified peer workers to be part of a brand-new service in the Wollongong area.
- Utilise your peer support skills including purposeful storytelling to connect with participants and promote hope and recovery
- Use personal lived experience of mental health recovery to connect with participants and provide support of evidence-based strategies underpinned by recovery orientated principles to provide assistance to individuals experiencing mental health
- Build independence in developing and engaging in skills to build distress tolerance and support an individual’s capacity to alleviate and manage future psychosocial distress and suicidal crisis
- Carryout brief interventions including psychosocial support, safety planning, recovery/wellness planning, sensory modulation techniques and advocacy
- Work collaboratively with key stakeholders and services like ambulance and local mental health teams
- Outreach work in the community is a large proportion of the role
- Work collaboratively within a multi-disciplinary team

**Requirements**:

- Completed/working towards a Cert IV in Peer Work or other Community services related discipline (ideally a completed Bachelors or Diploma)
- Must have a lived experience of recovery from a mental illness
- Knowledge and understanding of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders Culture and the ability to communicate effectively and sensitively with Indigenous Clients.
- Experience, skills and knowledge in working with people experiencing mental illness.
- Ability to implement and facilitate capacity building activities with participants.
- Ability to demonstrate initiative and work independently.
- Capacity to collaborate within a multidisciplinary team across a range of organisations.
- Must be eligible to apply/currently hold a WWCC
- Current driver's licence

Vaccination against COVID-19 is a requirement for all positions and is in accordance with Stride policy. As part of the recruitment process Stride requests evidence of vaccination status (in accordance with privacy principles) to ensure compliance with this policy requirement.

This includes but is not limited to people with a lived-experience of mental health recovery, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, LGBTQIA+, and people with disabilities.

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