Peer Support Worker
Vor 3 Tagen
Position Classification : Health Education Officer Graduate, Health Education Officer Non-Graduate
Remuneration : $30.45 - $55.64 per hour plus Super
Hours Per Week : As required
Requisition ID : REQ496978
Come Work With Us
Are you a mental health consumer with lived experience who wants to assist and support other consumers on their journey to recovery? You will be working in an innovative and supportive team of like-minded peers and clinicians. Join our casual pool and work as much or as little as you like
You will have the opportunity to pick up available shifts across our various teams providing you the flexibility of work/life balance.
For more information we encourage you to contact Bronwen Iferd on
Interviews are expected to be held between 15 July 2024 and 19 July 2024
Where you'll be working
Community Mental Health, Kirk Place, St George Mental Health Service, Kogarah.
The vision for South Eastern Sydney Local Health District (SESLHD) is ‘exceptional care, healthier lives’ . SESLHD is committed to enabling our community to be healthy and well, and to providing the best possible compassionate care when people need it.
The Peer Support Worker will draw upon their lived experience of mental health challenges and their personal recovery journey, to develop empathic relationships and support personal recovery for mental health consumers of the South Eastern Sydney Local Health District (SESLHD).
The goal of the position is to support the consumer through their mental health service journey by providing individual consultations, education and group interventions aimed at facilitating recovery principles of hope, choice, self-determination and social connectedness. Key focus areas include: physical health for mental health consumers, supporting consumers through their initial referral and engagement process, working with consumers and the treating team to prevent hospital admissions, and to and provide post discharge support from Mental Health Inpatient Units.
Based in community mental health centres, the Peer Support Worker role will span the full range of mental health settings through providing assertive in-reach support to consumers in Mental Health Inpatient Units and follow through support with consumers in in the community.
Employment of a temporary visa holder may only occur if no suitable permanent resident or citizen of Australia has been identified for this position following suitable labour market testing.
All Category A workers and new recruits are required to receive one dose of the seasonal influenza vaccine annually to be considered compliant.
Category A workers and new recruits who are non-compliant with seasonal influenza vaccination or have a medical contraindication to influenza vaccinations must comply with all other infection control risk reduction strategies as directed while working in a Category A position.
SESLHD is committed to creating a workplace that reflects the diversity of our community. This will help ensure our employees, our patients and their carers, feel supported. We encourage people from different backgrounds to apply.
Support for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Candidates
We welcome applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander candidates and we have an Aboriginal Employment Consultant that can provide support. If you have any questions or would like guidance on the recruitment process, please contact the SESLHD Aboriginal Employment Team via email to:
Selection Criteria
- Personal experience as a consumer of Mental Health Services and ability to utilise the lived experience to support others in their own mental health recovery journey.
- Certificate IV in Mental Health Peer Work or willingness and commitment to obtain. For Graduate Health Education Officers, additional relevant health degree required.
- Experience working in a Mental Health Peer Worker role, with the ability to plan, implement and evaluate group and individual peer led activities.
- Demonstrated knowledge of current local, State and National legislation and standards relevant to mental health.
- Demonstrated knowledge of and commitment to consumer led recovery principles and trauma informed care
- Excellent communication (verbal and written) and interpersonal skills with the ability to collaborate effectively within the multi-disciplinary team and with a diverse range of stakeholders including consumers, families and service providers
- Demonstrated ability to work independently with minimal supervision, as well as part of a multidisciplinary team.
- Demonstrated excellent computer skills (proficient in MS Office applications)
Need more information?
1) Click here for the Position Description and SESLHD Expected Standards
2) Find out more about applying for this position
Applications Close: 7 July 2024
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