Family/ Carer Peer Support Worker

Job Requisition ID: 2243- Legal Entity: Monash Health- Location: Clayton, VIC, AU, 3168- Employment Type: Part Time- Posting Date: 27 Aug 2024

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**Family/Carer Peer Support Worker, ELMHS CY-HOPE**
- Child and Youth HOPE Team, Early in Life Mental Health (ELMHS)_

Monash Health is excited to announce a Family/Carer Peer Support Worker position in the new Child & Youth Hospital Outreach Post-Suicidal Engagement (CY-HOPE) Team with the Early in Life Mental Health Service. The CY-HOPE team provides wellbeing/psychosocial support, peer support and brief clinical support to young people in the 0-18 age range presenting with suicide and self-harm concerns. The Family/Carer Peer Support Worker will work as part of the CY-HOPE team under its governance and support and, as such, will have opportunities to work in a variety of community settings.

This role is permanent ongoing (0.5 EFT).

**About the Child and Youth HOPE Team**

The Early in Life Mental Health Services (ELMHS) provides assessment and treatment for infants, children, adolescents, young people and their families. We work with the 0-18 age in the Southern Region. We provide a comprehensive assessment service and a range of treatment options including inpatient treatment in times of crisis, community (outpatient) treatment, group programs, family therapy, and specialist services. The Child & Youth Hospital Outreach Post-Suicidal Engagement (CY-HOPE) Team is a core component of Victoria’s suicide prevention framework, which aims to halve Victoria’s suicide rate by 2025. This new service gives children and young people who are intentionally self-harming, experiencing suicidal ideation, or have attempted suicide a rapid and intensive form of support that is designed to prevent rate of recurrence and ultimately reduce rates of suicide among children and young people. Importantly, this includes engagement and support of their parents/carers, families and extended support networks in assertive outreach provided.

All stakeholders (children, young people, their parents/carers, families and service providers) will work together in this Child and Youth HOPE service at the Early in Life Mental Health Service (ELMHS) at Monash Health. This service has been co-designed with and for young people and carers, First Nations people, people from Culturally Diverse Communities, LGBTIQ+ people, people in Out of Home Care, and Neurodiverse people. The co-designed service goals are: Approachable & Accessible, Positive & Empowering, Empathetic & Personalised, Responsible & Accountable, Creative & Resourceful, and Connected & Cohesive. The Early in Life Mental Health Services (ELMHS) provides assessment and treatment for infants, children, adolescents, young people and their families. We work with the 0-18 age in the Southern Region. We provide a comprehensive assessment service and a range of treatment options including inpatient treatment in times of crisis, community (outpatient) treatment, group programs, family therapy, and specialist services.

**About The Role**

**Professional knowledge and experience**:

- Experience working in a Mental Health Lived Experience role, with the capacity to use recovery oriented and trauma informed principles when providing support to people at risk of suicide
- Ability to establish strong, effective working relationships. I.e. Ability to liaise, consult and work with a broad range of consumers, carers/families, health professionals, community agencies and organizations
- Effective written and verbal communication skills and an ability to communicate in everyday, non-clinical language
- Understanding of the need to be sensitive to the needs of people from diverse backgrounds including Aboriginal and Torres Strait people, culturally and Linguistically Diverse people
- Demonstrated organisational skills including time management and working to agreed processes
- Willingness to participate in relevant training and supervision programs for peer support workers
- Understanding of the role of supervision, ongoing personal/professional development and other mechanisms that sustain motivation and enthusiasm
- Understanding of the role of governance in developing and managing safe and effective services

**About You**

**What You Need**:

- Family/Carer who has lived and/or living experience of caring for a young person who has experienced mental health issues and has used mental health services
- Recognition and understanding of own personal experience and ability to use this appropriately to support others.
- Ability to use own experience to in