Advanced Peer Worker

Advanced Peer Worker (Identified - Lived Experience) Join to apply for the Advanced Peer Worker (Identified - Lived Experience) role at Metro South Health . Overview Bring your lived/living experience of mental health and/or substance use recovery to a role where your voice, insight and hope directly shape recovery‑oriented care within an acute inpatient setting. Your New Role This role uses the power of lived/living experience to support consumers during their admission to an acute adult inpatient mental health ward, promoting hope, recovery and social inclusion as part of a multidisciplinary team. Use your lived/living experience to model recovery strategies, providing peer support, education, advocacy and referral for consumers in an inpatient setting. Work collaboratively with the multidisciplinary clinical team to develop, coordinate and support individual rehabilitation and recovery goals. Provide individual and group peer support that builds consumer capacity, independence and engagement with services and community supports. Contribute to a recovery‑oriented, person‑centred inpatient environment by advocating for inclusive practices and continuous service improvement. 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 have personal lived/living experience of mental health and/or substance use issues and are comfortable sharing recovery stories and strategies to support consumers. You build strong, respectful relationships with consumers, carers, families and health professionals, grounded in recovery principles and peer work values. You communicate proactively and work effectively within a multidisciplinary team while maintaining professional peer boundaries. You bring empathy, resilience and a trauma‑informed, strengths‑based approach, with an understanding of diversity and inclusion. 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 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. We are better together. Location: Calamvale, Queensland, Australia. #J-18808-Ljbffr