Peer Worker

2 days ago

Melbourne, Australia Forensicare Full time

Location: Melbourne | Western Metropolitan

Job type: Full time

Organisation: Forensicare

**Salary**: Salary not specified

Occupation: Health and Allied Health

Reference: 15827
- 3 Full time positions available - Peer Worker
- Based at Ravenhall Correctional Center
- A culture where people care

**Job location**

Forensicare is the statutory agency responsible for the provision of adult forensic mental health services across Victoria. We address the needs of people experiencing mental health issues, the mental health sector, the justice sector and the general community. These services are delivered through inpatient services at Thomas Embling Hospital, community services through the Community Forensic Mental Health Service and prison-based services at several locations. This position will be based at Thomas Embling Hospital for the period of orientation and will be required to work across all Forensicare sites.

Forensicare is situated across five sites across Victoria with its largest site being Thomas Embling Hospital,?located in Fairfield?just 15 minutes north of the Melbourne city centre.?Thomas Embling Hospital is a 136-bed secure hospital providing acute care, rehabilitation and continuing care programs. It includes a dedicated women’s unit.

**About the Role**:

- Enhance consumers recovery within a multi disciplinary team
- Be part of a growing lived experience team
- Use Peer support principles to mentor positive recovery
- Facilitate group activities and support consumer voice.

**Duties**:

- Sharerelevant recovery strategies and stories based on your own lived experience.
- Facilitate/Co-facilitate Recovery Groups
- Practice in a way that is mindful of dynamic power imbalances
- Provide informal, practical support to consumers, including listening to consumer concerns, providing information about the Forensic Mental Health System and assisting consumers to access appropriate supports.

**About You**:

- Lived Experience as a consumer of mental health services.Considerable experience in a similar designated consumer lived experience role.
- Demonstrated commitment to mental health consumer recovery
- Respect for individual diversity and an understanding of how to respond sensitively to issues of diversity
- Qualifications in Mental Health or a willingness to work towards such

**What you need**:

- A personal lived experience of being a mental health consumer or carer of a mental health consumer?

**A culture where people matter.**
- Excellent supervision and investment in the skill development of managers and supervisors.
- Celebration and reward for good performance, through employee recognition.
- A leading, multi-faceted approach to safety, with unparalleled strategic, practical, individualised and team-based supports to minimise risks and fear and maximise safety and security, underpinned by our workplace health and safety strategy.
- Access to an employee assistance program - an external, confidential, self-referral employee wellbeing program, for personal or work-related matters.
- A mental health and wellbeing program providing psychological support, peer support and critical incidence response programs, as needed.

**COVID19 & Influenza Vaccination Evidence**

Under the Victorian Public Health orders, all employees working within the Public Health system must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and Influenza and are required to provide acceptable evidence of their vaccination status. The current orders require evidence of three doses for COVID-19.

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