Advanced Peer Worker

1 week ago

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia Queensland Health Full time

Metro South Health is Australia's first digital health service and one of the largest in Queensland, with an estimated residential population of approximately one million people or 23 per cent of Queensland's population.
This is your opportunity to join the dedicated team of professionals at Metro South Health and be part of a world-class, dynamic and growing health service that embraces technology, excellence in health care, teaching, research and empowering our people to be the best in serving our community.
About the Role
- Using your lived/living experience of mental health issues, model recovery strategies to enable the assessment, intervention, and referral of consumers admitted to an acute adult inpatient ward.
- In conjunction with the multi-disciplinary clinical team co-ordinate, develop and implement rehabilitation goals for consumers.
- Provide consumers with education, information, referrals, and support from personal experience of recovery and of utilising mental health services and non-government agencies within an inpatient setting.
- Under s25 of the Anti-Discrimination Act 1991 (Qld), there is a genuine occupational requirement for the incumbent to have a personal lived or living experience of mental health (and/or addiction) issues.
- It is highly desirable that applicants hold a Certificate IV in Mental Health, Certificate IV in Mental Health Peer Work or Certificate IV in Community Settings or can demonstrate that they are working towards obtaining these qualifications.

Our ICARE2 values of Integrity, Compassion, Accountability, Respect, Engagement and Excellence, shape our culture within Metro South Health. Our values guide our day-to-day decision making and are fundamental to what we care about as a health service, how we behave, how we interact with each other and provide care to the many patients who come through our doors every day.
We offer rewarding career opportunities across a wide range of clinical and non-clinical areas across our health service and pride ourselves on providing a work environment that is safe, satisfying, flexible, and promotes a healthy work-life balance.
As a Metro South employee, you will benefit from a higher than standard employer contribution to Superannuation of up to 12.75%, access to salary packaging, flexible working arrangements and competitive salary rates with annual incremental increases.
It is a condition of employment for this role for the employee to be, and remain, vaccinated against COVID-19 Health Employment Directive No. 12/21and Queensland Health Human Resources Policy B70.

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