Open Dialogue Consumer Peer Practitioner

2 days ago

Parkville, Australia The Royal Melbourne Hospital Full time

Job Description
- Open Dialogue Consumer Peer Practitioner

**Req ID**:2645

**Posting Start Date**:16/01/2025

**Advertisement End Date**:16/02/2025

**Work Location**:The RMH Parkville (City campus)

The Royal Melbourne Hospital is one of Australia’s leading public healthcare providers. Join the team. Build a career. We are looking for a passionate and dedicated individual to join The Royal Melbourne Hospital.

**Open Dialogue Consumer Peer Practitioner**
- **An ongoing part-time role located in Carlton**:

- **Exciting new opportunity piloting the Open Dialogue approach**:

- **Be a part of a team delivering support that is social network focussed and enables supported decision making**

This role is a key member of the Royal Melbourne Hospital Mental Health Services (RMH MHS) Inner Melbourne Community Mental Health Team; a new team providing mental health, treatment, care, and support in the City of Melbourne area (Carlton, North Melbourne, CBD). The team will provide an innovative integrated Open Dialogue Model of Care as part of a translational research project under the auspices of the Victorian Collaborative Centre of Mental Health and Wellbeing. The team will include both clinical and lived and living experiences peer support workforce with a focus on participation of the consumers support network from the beginning of their engagement with the team.

**Your new role**:

- Co-facilitate Open Dialogue network meetings with the consumer and their support networks to understand their experience, needs and collaboratively develop a treatment plan
- Respond to people in crisis as well as provide support to consumers with complex mental health care needs and their support network, which may include family, carers supporters and kin
- Work collaboratively with the multidisciplinary team, lived experience leads, external service providers, including our academic partners who will be leading an evaluation research project for the pilot

**About you**:

- You would have a personal lived experience of mental ill health, AOD or psychological distress.
- At least two years in a lived experience role
- Intentional Peer support core training
- A willingness to share your own emotional experience within network meetings through reflections with your co-facilitator
- Experience mentoring other support workers
- An understanding of the policies and procedures associated with the Mental Health Act and other relevant legislation, particularly related to consumer rights

**Benefits for you**:

- Group and individual consumer perspective Supervision with the wider Consumer LE team
- Training and ongoing support in the practice of Open Dialogue
- Project located conveniently in Carlton close to public transport

**Interested?**

If you are looking for a challenging role and can demonstrate the above capabilities, connect with us.

For a confidential discussion please connect via the details below:
**Leah McKenner,**Director Consumer Lived Experience,**Royal Melbourne Hospital Mental Health Services -**(Monday-Wednesday) 0478765640**

**Advertisement Contact (Name and phone)**:Carly Johnson, 0403673288

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