Peer Worker - Bellarine
Barwon Health
- Bellarine, VIC
- $67,500-71,600 per year
- Permanent
- Part-time
Position Title Peer Worker - Bellarine
Employment Status Permanent Part Time
Program Mental Health Drug and Alcohol Services
Location Newcomb CHC
Salary $67,500.00 to $71,600.00
Hours Per Fortnight 56
Position Summary
- Join a supportive and inclusive team and service who value your contribution
- Leadership opportunity to develop your peer worker skills in a specialist service
- Permanent Part Time – 56 hours per fortnight
- Trained in the delivery of a peer led approach to service delivery
- Lived experience of mental illness (distress)
- Lived experience of engagement with public mental health services
- Lived experience of Recovery and capacity to reflect on personal recovery processes
- Previous experience as a peer worker and/or senior peer worker
- Deep knowledge of peer support principles
- As guided by the Lived Experience Discipline Lead and the Operational Manager of the Bellarine Community Centre, the Senior Consumer Peer Worker will:
- Provide individual and peer support to people with a lived experience of mental distress who access therapy services
- Work collaboratively with therapists and peer workers to develop effective peer supports
- Provide supervisory input to peer workers and lead peer program development
- This position plays a vital role in supporting the ongoing development of peer work, voice of lived experience in the tertiary mental health system, and integration within clinical services.
- EBA leave entitlements and the opportunity to purchase additional leave
- Flexible working arrangements
- Professional Development
- Doorstep to the Great Ocean Road, Bellarine Peninsula and the Surf Coast
- Access to employee wellness facility
- Attractive salary packaging benefits!
- Living Expenses capped at $9,010 and includes repayments on mortgages, credit cards, personal loans and rental payments
- Meal Entertainment & Accommodation capped at $2,650 and includes food and drink consumed in a social or entertainment settings and some accommodation expenditure
Selection Criteria Essential: Can you please list Barwon Health's values?
Essential: Can you please choose one of Barwon Health's values and describe a situation in the workplace where you have displayed this value?
Essential: I agree, to commence employment, I am required to meet Barwon Health's immunisation requirements (including full Covid-19 and Influenza vaccination) set out in the Staff Immunisation Policy. I acknowledge that meeting this requirement is mandatory and a condition of employment subsequently offered.
Essential: Do you have lived experience of overcoming the impact of mental illness/distress and/or drug and alcohol use?
Essential: Do you have lived experience of accessing or seeking to access the tertiary mental health system for mental illness/distress and/or drug and alcohol use?
Contact Person Anna Sowden
Contact Person Job Title Lived Experience Discipline Lead
Contact Number (03) 4215 2644
Alternate Contact Person Michele Brueckner
Alternate Contact Number (03) 4215 7685
Closing Date 02/05/2024