Older Adults Carer/peer Supp

5 days ago


Melbourne, Australia Mercy Health Full time

Location: Melbourne | Western Metropolitan

Job type: Full time, Part time

Organisation: Mercy Health

**Salary**: Salary not specified

Occupation: Health and Allied Health, Nursing, Aged Care

Reference: 19972

**ABOUT THE ROLE**:
Mercy Mental Health & Wellbeing Service, a provider of Adult and Older Adult Mental Health and Wellbeing services in the southwest metropolitan area of Melbourne, is establishing an Older Adults community based team.

Be part of a growing lived experience workforce at Mercy Health. We are seeking people with a lived experience who are keen to work alongside older adults on their recovery journey. The role of consumer and carer peer support workers is unique because it is informed by the persons own lived experience of mental ill health and recovery.

This is an exciting opportunity to be part of the development of a new community team that will provide mental health support to older adults living within the Wyndham and Hobson’s Bay communities.

These roles work collaboratively with the multidisciplinary team, the older adult and their families / carers to facilitate support, learning and / or to provide practical assistance for action towards identifying recovery roles. You will bring the lived experience perspective to the new Older Adults Community Mental Health Team

We will consider full or part time applicants. The role(s) will be based at Saltwater Clinic in Footscray and will work across sites.

Applications will be reviewed as received and suitable applicants will be interviewed.

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**ABOUT YOU**:

- Lived experience as a mental health consumer or as a carer of a mental health consumer
- Experience working in a dedicated lived experience workforce role in mental health
- The ability to share your consumer or carer lived experience, where appropriate, to support consumers and their family, carers and supporters to build understanding, hope and resilience in line with peer support principles
- Attained or willing to work towards the Certificate IV in Mental Health (Peer Work) or Training and experience in the Intentional Peer Support framework.
- Trauma-informed understanding of mental and physical ill health and the functional challenges of ageing
- Current Victorian Driver’s licence.

**ABOUT US**:

- Mercy Mental Health Wellbeing Service (South West Area Mental Health Service) is a public mental health service supporting people in south west metropolitan Melbourne with severe and complex mental illnesses by providing acute and community-based care. Services available includes acute inpatient programs, residential rehabilitation programs and crisis and community recovery-focused treatment programs. We also deliver inpatient and community specialist perinatal mental health services to women and infants in western Victoria.

Mercy Health is a Catholic organisation grounded in a 2,000-year tradition of caring for others. Founded by the Sisters of Mercy, Mercy Health is made up of more than 9,500 people who provide acute and subacute hospital care, aged care, mental health programs, maternity and specialist women's health services, early parenting services, home care services and health worker training and development.

Mercy Health is proud to be recognised as an Employer of Choice for Gender Equality by the WGEA.

**WHAT WE OFFER**:
Mercy Health recognises that people are searching for meaning in their work life and finding a workplace that connects with their values is a key motivation when choosing an employer. As a not-for-profit healthcare provider, Mercy Health has a strong mission and clear values that guide us in everything we do. We pride ourselves on:

- caring for our people and those important to them with generous employee assistance available for employees and their families
- protecting children and vulnerable people in all our services, by listening to them and having zero tolerance of any form of abuse and neglect
- taking a stand against climate change, which is one of the biggest threats to the health of the world and all humanity, and committing to action that will help make our world fairer and more sustainable
- offering benefits such as generous salary packaging, purchased leave, career progression and development opportunities, access to health and wellbeing programs and a range of discounts across a diverse portfolio of financial, healthcare, travel and other services.

**WHAT YOU WILL NEED**:

- Proof of vaccination status consistent with public health orders and with Mercy Health’s policy (includes but is not limited to COVID-19 and seasonal influenza vaccination compliance requirement).

If you have any questions or require any adjustments to ensure a fair and equitable interview and selection process please contact us on the details below.

**Contact Details**
- Linda Crossan, Manager Older Adults
- 0435 449 957
- Linda Crossan, Manager Older Adults
- 0435 449 957



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