Family Peer Worker

20 hours 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: 70274

**Family/Carer Peer Worker - Orygen Sunshine and Wyndham**

**Short description**: Share your lived experience and guide young people through their mental health journey
- ** Ongoing part-time role | 2 days per week**:

- ** Based in Sunshine and Wyndham | Excellent team culture and development opportunities**:

- ** Make a difference in the lives of young people and their families/carers**

**Your new role**:

- Work collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team and provide a lived experience specific values and perspective
- Support young people and their families/carers with goal setting, group sessions, navigating system, problem-solving barriers to participation
- Support with recruitment, induction, training and supervision of other family/carer peer workers across Orygen
- Provide inclusive and sensitive practice to young people and their families/carers from Aboriginal/Torres Strait Islander, CALD and LGBTQIA backgrounds

**Your new team**:

- Orygen Specialist Program provides mental health services to young people aged 15-25 and their families/carers in Melbourne's northwest and western suburbs.
- The Orygen community care teams in Sunshine and Wyndham provides access to outpatient community care by a multidisciplinary team completing shift work rosters, and ensuring comprehensive, collaborative and coordinated care.
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**About you**:

- Lived experience as a carer of a young person accessing youth mental health services and ability to share experiences in a recovery focused way
- Experience in delivering peer work in mental health, ideally in a youth-specific setting
- Passion, energy and determination to make a difference to the health outcomes for young people
- Qualifications/training in mental health are desirable but not required

**Benefits of working with Orygen Specialist Programs**:

- 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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