Peer Worker

**Flourish Australia** has an exciting opportunity for a **Peer Worker** to join our Community Businesses team in **Harris Park**

The position available is:

- **Ongoing Full-time (76 hours/fortnight)**:

- Working** Monday to Friday**:

- Based in **Harris Park**:

- **Attractive hourly rates** equivalent to SCHCADS Level 3 **$37.35 - $40.05p/h + 11.5% Super + Tax-Free Salary Packaging**

**About the Community Businesses**:

- **Social**: to create a recovery and reintegration pathway for people with mental health issues through various employment activities.
- **Economic**: to operate the business on a commercially sustainable basis of profitable growth whilst simultaneously offering employment opportunities for people.
- **Product**: to provide a range of commercial industry-standard products that meet the expectations and needs of targeted markets.
- **Support**: to increase awareness of mental health issues and to encourage businesses to support the Community Businesses.

For more information on how our Community Businesses provide recovery-focused employment and support, please visit our website.

**About the Opportunity**:
Flourish Australia’s Community Businesses provide vocational support and training within a commercial environment to people with lived experience of mental health issues. They achieve this goal by tailoring meaningful employment activities that support an employee’s vocational journey with practical on the job training and a group based learning experience. These vocational activities culminate into achieving the Community Businesses objective of transitioning employees into open employment.

The objectives of our community businesses are to provide a supportive working environment where people can:

- Reconnect gradually with employment and earn an award-based wage;
- Gain or enhance the social skills required to operate successfully as an employee;
- Learn about recovery and how to improve their physical and mental health and wellbeing, and plan their recovery journey with support from a peer worker; and
- Gain useful trade or industrial skills and qualifications relevant to future working opportunities.

As a **Peer Worker **with Flourish Australia, your own life experience of a mental health issue and personal recovery will provide a distinct advantage as you mentor and support people with lived experience of a mental health issue. You will be required to use this lived experience openly, appropriately and effectively to build professional relationships with the people you support that also have a lived experience of a mental health issue.

On a day to day basis, you will:

- Connect with, support, build reciprocity, trust and shared experience with people who access our services.
- Guide and support each person in their recovery and be strengths, ability and possibility focused.
- Effectively model hope and recovery.
- Ensure that individual support is provided to a person that accesses Flourish Australia services that meet their recovery journey goals and is strengths based and led by the person wherever possible.
- Encourage shared learning experiences, and support skill development at every opportunity through self-directed learning, information and education.

For more information about what it means to be a **Peer Worker** with Flourish Australia, please review the Position Description and the Peer Worker information statement “What You Should Consider Before Becoming A Peer Worker”.

**Who we are**:
Flourish Australia is one of Australia’s most experienced community mental health organisations. Our purpose is to support people to flourish, believe in their futures, and become contributing members of the community.

Our services are comprehensive and highly personalised because each person’s experience will be different and their needs, as an individual, are unique. Together we set goals, connect individuals with the right people, support services and opportunities to meet their needs.

**Selection Criteria**:

- Essential:_
- Certificate IV or above in a relevant field OR a minimum of 2-years full-time experience working in the human services field (as recognised by Flourish Australia)
- A strong commitment to recovery-based practice in the workplace.
- A personal lived experience of a mental health issue and recovery.
- Understanding of the challenges faced by people with a lived experience of a mental health issue.
- Understanding of, and ability to effectively use, Microsoft Office and knowledge of data information management systems.
- A current Australian Driver’s Licence.

**The Benefits**:
Flourish Australia recognises and values its people as demonstrated by:

- **Level 3 (SCHCADS) **on the Flourish Australia Enterprise Agreement (2018)
- **Tax-Free Salary Packaging** up to $15,900
- **Vehicle mileage allowance**:

- Family-friendly and **flexible working conditions**:

- **Generous leave provisions **including **17.5% leave loading + 2 additiona