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Carer Lived Experience Worker
- Bairnsdale location
Based in Gippsland, Latrobe Regional Health are looking for a Carer Lived Experience worker to join our Bairnsdale Community Mental health services on a part time ongoing basis.
As a Carer Lived Experience Worker, you will provide peer support to carers, family members, and supporters who have a relative or friend receiving care from Latrobe Regional Health Mental Health Service. You will form mutually supportive and empathetic peer relationships by appropriately and purposefully sharing your own story and understanding of the impacts of mental distress and illness on families and carers. You will use your Lived Experiences supporting someone through service use and recovery to provide emotional and practical support, making it easier to navigate the Mental Health system, and inspiring confidence, optimism, and hope in others about the journey of recovery.
LRH employees enjoy access to:
- Free access to our Staff Wellbeing Centre offering a range of health education and wellbeing services
- Access to ongoing development through daily education sessions, bespoke training and career & study support
- Tailored flexible work options to support work life balance, including ADO’s, 5 weeks leave, regional salary packaging and additional purchased leave
- Fantastic social club activities and diverse and inclusive workplace activities
- Workplace Wellbeing programs and activities uniquely designed for LRH staff
We are looking for candidates with:
Certificate IV in Mental Health Peer Work, Intentional Peer Support Training, or other peer workforce experience OR an undertraining to complete relevant education within 2 years of employment
- Demonstrated practical understanding of the issues and concerns experienced by families, carers, and supporters of people experiencing Mental Health challenges and service use
- Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to work well as part of a team
For more information about this exciting opportunity, we encourage you to contact LindaWaters on(03) 5128 0*** for a confidential discussion.
About LRH
LRH was proud to be the recipient of the 2022 Premier’s Health Service of the Year (Medium) Award. This prestigious award recognises the amazing work of our team in driving change and improvement in the health outcomes for the Victorian community.
We are located 150 km east of Melbourne, and LRH is the regional provider of a broad range of specialist health services including hospital based, sub-acute and Mental Health services across Gippsland.
Now is an exciting time to join the LRH team, with $217 million expansion nearing completion, offering improved maternity and paediatric facilities, larger intensive care unit, increase medical and surgical beds and additional operating theatres.
Explore all the great things happening at LRH – www.lrh.com.au and take the next step on your career journey by submitting your application for this and other roles here - https://lrh.mercury.com.au
Diversity and Inclusion
We actively embrace workforce diversity, equity and inclusion, and encourage applications from across our community, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. LRH’s Aboriginal Hospital Liaison Officer is available to support Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent applicants and can be contacted on (03) 5173 8***.
IMPORTANT: All staff employed in the healthcare sector are required to be vaccinated for 3 COVID-19 doses and current season influenza vaccination, unless a valid medical exemption applies.
Selection Criteria
Essential: Fully Vaccinated against COVID-19Essential: Lived experience of supporting and caring for someone experiencing Mental Health challenges, service use, and recovery (essential). Essential: Demonstrated experience working collaboratively with individuals and groups to build and maintain effective relationships within multidisciplinary teams (essential). Essential: Well-developed communication and interpersonal skills, including the ability to consult, liaise, and work collaboratively with multiple stakeholders.
Essential: Effective time management and written communication skills. Essential: Current drivers licence
Desirable: Experience in developing and facilitating group activities
Essential: Willingness to share and draw on Lived Experience purposefully in the role to instil confidence and hope in others about the journey of recovery
Essential: Demonstrates an interest and understanding of others and ability to relate to people at all levels
Essential: Proven ability to maintain confidentiality and build trust to deal with sensitive and difficult situations in a diplomatic manner
Essential: A Mental Health qualification of Certificate IV level or above, or complete such a qualification within 2 years of your commencement of employment and / or completion of intentional peer support training
Essential: Computer literacy
Essential: Ability to establish respectful professional relationships that have clear boundaries with consumers, staff and partner organisations Essential: Strong written and verbal communication skills
