Expression of Interest

**Employment Status**

Permanent Full Time, Permanent Part Time

**Program**

Mental Health Drug and Alcohol Services

**Location**

Multiple Locations

**Hours Per Fortnight**

0

**Position Summary**
- Multiple opportunities available - junior and senior options
- Utilise your personal lived experience of caring for someone with a mental illness
- Join a team committed to supporting lived experience as a key discipline in mental health service delivery

**About the service**

Barwon Health's MHDAS provides integrated and recovery orientated mental health and drug and alcohol assessment, treatment, harm reduction and community and family support to people of all ages within the Barwon Region currently experiencing, or at risk of experiencing mental health and/or drug and alcohol issues. We are committed to supporting lived experience as a key discipline in mental health service delivery across our acute, community and specialty services.

**About the Lived Experience workforce**

MHDAS recognise the strength, courage and unique perspective of people with lived experience of mental health, as well as their carers, as a vital contribution to our service. We have lived experience roles embedded into the leadership, design and delivery of our services and our LE workforce is employed in a range of roles across the service.

**About the Carer Peer Support roles**

We are seeking empathetic and committed people who have personal lived experience of caring for a family member or loved one with an acute mental illness to provide peer support and information to families and carers of consumers across our service. We have entry level opportunities available as well as roles suitable for people with prior experience.

**Key duties of Carer Peer Support Workers**:

- Collaborates with other Carer Peer Workers for the delivery of groups
- Engage with Carers to ensure that they are supported and feel included
- Support communication to carers, plans and facilitate groups, and undertakes administrative tasks.
- Providing expert input into the development of new peer programs
- Develops relationships with internal and external services
- Contribute to education activities designed to promote a greater understanding of peer work and the value of lived experience input into the service
- Senior Peer Workers will oversee individual and group peer supervision.

**About you**
- Personal lived experience of caring for a family member or loved one engaged with public acute mental health services
- Personal lived experience of caring for someone on a recovery journey
- Understanding of own personal journey as a carer
- Willingness to support others through intentional sharing of lived experience
- Demonstrated ability of working with people in a compassionate and respectful way

**What we offer**
- Flexible working arrangement
- Professional development opportunities
- 5 weeks annual leave with the option to purchase additional leave
- Doorstep to the Great Ocean Road, Bellarine Peninsula and the Surf Coast
- Attractive salary packaging benefits
- Living Expenses capped at $9,010 and includes repayments on mortgages, credit cards, personal loans and rental payments
- Meal Entertainment & Accommodation capped at $2,650 and includes food and drink consumed in a social or entertainment settings and some accommodation expenditure

**Diversity and Inclusion**

At Barwon Health we are committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce. We embrace diverse life experiences and the perspectives of our people, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, religion, cultural background, disability, or sexual orientation.
- This role must be fully vaccinated for Covid-19 and influenza and meet the requirements of the Barwon Health immunisation policy._

Geelong, Victoria

**Selection Criteria**

Essential: Can you please list Barwon Health's values?
Essential: Can you please choose one of Barwon Health's values and describe a situation in the workplace where you have displayed this value?
Essential: I agree, to commence employment, I am required to meet Barwon Health’s immunisation requirements (including full Covid-19 and Influenza vaccination) set out in the Staff Immunisation Policy. I acknowledge that meeting this requirement is mandatory and a condition of employment subsequently offered.
Essential: Lived experience of engagement with public mental health services as an unpaid carer ( family member/supporter).
Essential: Please share some detail on what the experience of being an unpaid carer (family member/supporter) of someone experiencing mental illness has taught you.

**Contact Person**

Anna Sowden

**Contact Person Job Title**

**Contact Number**

(03) 4215 2644

**Closing Date