Mental Health Peer Support Worker

4 days ago

Blacktown, Australia Stride Full time

**About us**:
We’re leaders in mental health service delivery, specialising in working with adults and young people, and in early childhood intervention.

Stride is a name that expresses our ambition - it’s a name that’s purposeful and shows awareness of the important role we play in the recovery journey.

As we embark on the next stage of our journey, join us to make a difference. We're here to Stride.

**About the service**:
Safe Spaces provides a safe, welcoming and supportive environment for people experiencing psychological distress, allowing them to:

- Identify alternatives to presenting to the Emergency Department for low risk individuals
- Access support from trained mental health professionals within their community, outside a clinical setting.

**Role overview**:

- Be involved in building and demonstrating a completely new service model for Western Sydney
- Use a combination of evidence-based strategies underpinned by recovery orientated principles to provide assistance to individuals experiencing distress.
- Utilise a sensory modulation approach to build independence in developing and engaging in skills to build distress tolerance and support an individual’s capacity to alleviate and manage future psychosocial distress.
- Carryout brief interventions
- Work closely with services like police and hospital teams

**On offer**:

- Based in Blacktown, NSW
- Casual opportunity available
- Hours of operation: Wednesday to Saturday (3pm - 9pm)
- Paying on SCHADs Level 3 plus Super
- May be eligible for salary packaging options (up to $15,899 tax free)
- Stride Rewards - access to discounts from 100s of retailers (fashion, food and fitness)
- Supportive team environment
- Excellent training and career development

**Requirements**:

- Minimum of Cert IV in Mental Health, Community Services or other related discipline (ideally a completed Diploma or Bachelors)
- Experience, skills and knowledge in working with people experiencing mental illness, in immediate distress and/or experiencing suicide ideation
- Experience using mental health assessment tools with distressed clients
- Ability to implement and facilitate capacity building activities with participants
- Ability to demonstrate initiative and work independently
- Excellent communication, interpersonal, problem solving and organisational skills
- Networking skills to build and maintain relationships with key stakeholders
- Must be eligible to apply/currently hold a WWCC
- Current driver's licence with a good driving history and a registered, well maintained vehicle that is available to be used for the purposes of this role

This includes but is not limited to people with a lived-experience of mental health recovery, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, LGBTQIA+, and people with disabilities.

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