Carer Peer Support Worker

3 days ago

Melbourne, Australia The Royal Melbourne Hospital Full time

-Location: Melbourne | Northern Metropolitan
Job type: Part time
Organisation: The Royal Melbourne Hospital
Salary: Salary not specified
Occupation: Health and Allied Health
Reference: 70482

**Carer Peer Support Worker**

**Hospital Outreach Post-Suicidal Engagement (HOPE) Team**
- Exciting Carer Peer Support role
- Part Time position - working a rotating roster
- Post Discharge Mental Health Support Program based at Royal Melbourne Hospital

**Life with Us**
- The Inner West Area Mental Health Service (IWAMHS) HOPE team aims to build resilience in individuals who have made a suicide attempt by providing intensive and individualised therapeutic care and psychosocial support.
- We supports individuals who present to the Royal Melbourne Hopsital ED in mental health crisis and who are not referred to community mental health services
- We are a small, supportive clinical team who are passionate about supporting individuals, their families and their carers following mental health crisis

**Your New role**
- Provide direct peer support to any family member/carer within the service through face-to-face or telephone/online meetings
- Give practical advice and support to reduce the isolation that carers can experience through times of crisis
- Acknowledge the critical role of family/carers in recovery as well as the importance of linking family/carers into support for themselves
- Provide carers with emotional and practical support and help to identify their information and support needs

**About you**:

- Extensive experience in supporting an adult with mental ill health who has used public mental health services
- Demonstrated ability to engage individuals or families through telephone, face to face or online meetings in an empathic manner
- Capable of utilising your personal experience appropriately for the benefit of other carers
- Passionate about helping others and understand peer support principles
- The RMH is proud to be a workplace that champions diversity, inclusion and equality for our staff and our community. Our goal is for our people to feel safe, included and supported so that they can be at their best every single day. _

**Interested?**
- For a confidential discussion please connect via the details below.
- Alex Smith, Manager RMH Ambulatory Mental Health Services
- Deb Talia, Carer Peer Support Coordinator

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