Mental Peer Support Worker jobs

Your new role:
In this rewarding Advanced Peer Worker role, you'll use your lived/living experience to support consumers receiving acute mental health care in their own homes.

Key aspects of the role include:
Provide peer support - Offer individual and group peer support, advocacy and education to help consumers build independence and resilience.
Model recovery - Share your lived/living experience to inspire hope, support goal setting and demonstrate practical recovery strategies.
Collaborate with the MH HITH team - Work within a multidisciplinary team to deliver safe, high quality care in line with peer work values.
Enhance consumer engagement - Create innovative opportunities to improve consumer, carer and family experiences across the service.

This is an identified vacancy with a genuine occupational requirement that candidates are persons who have a lived/living experience of mental health challenges, substance use challenges, service use and recovery. Candidates must include a statement in their application if they identify with one or more of these attributes. Only candidates who meet this requirement will be considered.

About you:
You're someone who brings authenticity, empathy and a strong commitment to recovery-oriented practice.

We're looking for someone who:
Shares lived experience confidently - You're comfortable using your personal journey to support, educate and empower others.
Builds strong relationships - You connect well with consumers, carers, families and staff, promoting understanding of recovery.
Communicates with empathy - You bring calmness, intuition, resilience and compassion to every interaction.
Understands recovery principles - You have knowledge of strengths based approaches, trauma informed care and peer work values.

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What we can offer you:
We offer a family-friendly work environment that supports you in making the most of Queensland's laid-back lifestyle.
We are renowned for teaching and research excellence with strong relations with Queensland's leading tertiary institutions.
We want to empower you to build a long-term career, with countless opportunities to learn and grow, no matter your role
You'll have all the benefits of working for Queensland's world-class public health system including generous leave entitlements, attractive salary and remuneration packages, salary packaging and access to relevant professional development allowances and/or leave, study and research assistance, corporate discounts and employee wellness programs.

About us:
Metro South Addiction and Mental Health Services:
Metro South Addiction and Mental Health Services provide inpatient, hospital-based and community mental health and community alcohol and drug services for all age groups across a number of campuses.

We embrace a forward looking, progressive approach and work collaboratively with all stakeholders in order to achieve expected outcomes. A clear and strong consumer and carer focus is promoted with our vision being to provide our community excellence in consumer centred, integrated care across the continuum of addiction (alcohol and drug) and mental health services.

INTEGRITY | COMPASSION | ACCOUNTABILITY | RESPECT | ENGAGEMENT | EXCELLENCE

Our values were created by employees for employees to shape our culture and inspire positive interactions in the workplace. Diversity of ideas, skills, traditions, and customs is celebrated as one of our greatest strengths. Having a workforce that reflects and understands the needs and expectations of our community is important to delivering safe, kinder, and more inclusive care.

We recognise our strength comes from the diversity of our people and so we encourage people of all genders, ethnicities, ages, abilities, languages, sexual orientation, and family responsibilities to apply.

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