Family Carer Peer Worker - Orygen @ Home

Family Carer Peer Worker – Orygen @ Home

• Ongoing part-time role | 6 days per fortnight
• Based in Footscray | Excellent team culture and development opportunities
• Make a difference in the lives of young people and their families/carers

Your new team:
Forming part of the Orygen Specialist Program (OSP), a program of The Royal Melbourne Hospital, Orygen @ Home is an acute service which provides access to care 24-hours, 7-days per week by a multidisciplinary team to young people aged 12-25 and their families/carers in Melbourne's northwest and western suburbs.
Your new role:

• Draw on your lived experience of supporting your family member or significant other, and offer empathetic listening, providing peer support and information
• Work collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team and provide lived experience specific values and perspective
• Have a broad understanding of the differing perspectives of the impact of mental ill health on families/carers and the community
• Provide inclusive and sensitive practice to young people and their families/carers from Aboriginal/Torres Strait Islander, CALD and LGBTQIA backgrounds

About you:

• Lived experience as a carer of a young person accessing youth mental health services and ability to share experiences in a recovery focused way
• Experience in delivering peer work in mental health, ideally in a youth-specific setting
• Passion, energy and determination to make a difference to the health outcomes for young people
• Qualifications/training in mental health are desirable but not required

Benefits of working with Orygen Specialist Program:

• You will enjoy excellent work-life balance. We want you to stay long term!
• Join us during this inspiring time of growth and change - career progression opportunities to suit your professional development goals.
• Salary packaging, onsite car parking and close to public transport.
• Comprehensive Health & Wellbeing Programs including; Staff Medical Service, Employee Assistance Program, Peer Support Program - run by our dedicated employees

Interested?
If you are looking for a challenging role and can demonstrate the above capabilities, connect with us via the details below.
Please note: recruitment is ongoing, with interviews commencing as soon as suitable applications are received. Advertising may cease prior to the closing date.
All appointments are made subject to a satisfactory Criminal History Record Check, and where applicable, Working With Children Check (WWCC). All RMH employees are required to provide evidence of an immunisation assessment including evidence of vaccination against COVID-19 (3 doses) and Influenza with a TGA approved vaccine (mandatory for all clinical and or patient facing roles) prior to commencement. This is in accordance with the Victorian Minister of Health’s Mandatory Vaccination Orders for COVID-19 and legislated requirement for influenza vaccination.
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