Consumer Peer Worker

Location: Melbourne | Southern Metropolitan

Job type: Part time

Organisation: Monash Health

**Salary**: Salary not specified

Occupation: Nursing

Reference: 56049

Exciting position to be part of a multidisciplinary team and provide mutual support, information and practical assistance to consumers who are part of Clayton MSTT.
- Play a key role in promoting choice, self-determination and opportunities for consumers to seek or maintain socially valued roles and connections in their local communities
- Play a key role in the supporting the efficient management of our MSTT clients
- Training and supervision offered to support in the role

**About The Role**

We are excited to announce a new Consumer Peer Work role within the Clayton Mobile Support and Treatment Team. This role is based in Oakleigh and is part-time, permanent. We are seeking an enthusiastic Consumer Peer Worker to provide valuable lived experience peer support to consumers. This role utilises the Consumer Peer Worker's own lived experience as a consumer who has lived experience of mental health issues and has used mental health services. Peer Workers are provided with lived experience supervision.

**About You**:
**In this role, you will utilise your own lived experience as a consumer who has experienced mental health issues and has used mental health services to support others within the principles of intentional peer support. Within a relationship of mutuality, you will provide emotional support to consumers and promote well-being, choice, self-determination and greater opportunities for consumers to participate in their own treatment and recovery.**

**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

**What You Need**:

- Lived and/or living experience of 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 inspire hope and belief in recovery
- Completion of Intentional Peer Support (IPS) training (or willingness to complete)
- Completion of Certificate IV in Mental Health Peer Work or similar qualification (or willingness to complete)

**What We Offer**:

- access to Monash Health in-house learning portals to further expand your knowledge and further opportunity to develop 'lived experience practice skills through reflective supervision, mentoring, and professional development opportunities.
- avenues to further develop your skills
- mentorship & career guidance
- support to attend relevant forums & conferences
- a supportive learning environment, should you wish to undertake further studies

**How to Apply**

Monash Health recognises the value of equal employment opportunity and is committed to patient safety and promoting fairness, equity and diversity in the workplace. At Monash Health we are relentless in our pursuit of excellence and work to our six guiding principles.

Offers of employment can only be made once all required probity checks have been completed. These include:

- reference checks;
- a clear Police Check conducted within the last three months;
- a current Victorian Employee Working with Children's Check (or proof of payment for same);and
- proof of immunisation.

A request to conduct probity checks does not guarantee that an offer of employment will be made.