AddressThe role:
Statewide Mental Health Services (SMHS) is committed to building a Lived Experience workforce that influences systems change and creates opportunities for individuals with serious mental ill-health and their families/carers to live a meaningful life. Staff with lived experience of Mental Health challenges and recovery are a vital part of Tasmania’s public Mental Health Service workforce. Lived Experience workers are informed by personal experience of Mental Health challenges, service use and periods of healing and recovery, as either a consumer or a family member/carer.
The work of a Lived Experience worker is not only informed by their own lived experiences; it also has a firm grounding in theories, values and principles based on Lived Experience research and evidence. The core values that underpin the SMHS Lived Experience workforce include that of hope, equality, sharing, empathy, choice, respect, mutuality, and authenticity.
As members of our multidisciplinary teams, some of these workers provide one-on-one peer work to consumers and their families/carers, while others work in leadership, supervision/mentoring, and systems support roles. All Lived Experience workers, regardless of where they work in our services, are a resource for change.
Note: - Please refer to the Statement of Duties for all the selection criteria of this position to address in your application.
Roy Fagan Centre – Older Person’s Mental Health Services (OPMHS) South:
- OPMHS is currently undertaking a major reform process.
- This is a rare opportunity to be the Roy Fagan Centre’s first Family - Carer Peer Worker
- Work across a multi-disciplinary work force in a team environment.
Details of Appointment
Permanent full time, day worker position working 76 hours per fortnight, commencing from as soon as possible.
*notwithstanding hours may be negotiated with the successful applicant
- Applicants should note that, for a period of twelve months from the date of publication, this selection process may be used to fill subsequent or similar full time and part time vacancies.
Salary: $65,236 - $68,925 per annum. Our Employer 11% superannuation contribution is on top of this amount.
- Salary range is in accordance with Public Sector Unions Wages Agreement 2022
Statement of Duties
- Generic Family-Carer Peer Worker HSO5 (July 2023) CSU.docx
- Generic Family-Carer Peer Worker HSO5 (July 2023) CSU.pdf
Applicant Guide
- Department of Health - Applicant Guide June 22.pdf
- Department of Health - Applicant Guide June 22.docx
For more information (Contact Officer)
Stuart Beard
Position: Acting Assistant Director of Nursing - Older Persons Mental Health Service
Phone: 0499 874 ***
E-mail: ************@ths.tas.gov.au
Please note applications close 2 June 2024 at 11:55PM
