Peer Support Lead

Job DescriptionPosition Details-Full time Permanent-Paying SHADS level 5 (pay point depending on experience)-Location: Morwell-Salary Packaging availableWhat the role is:You will lead the Peer Support workers to work alongside a multi-disciplinary team inclusive of mental health clinicians, mental health registered nurses, medical officers, and consultant psychiatrists. Peer Support Leads and Workers will support a high engagement model of care, through actively greeting and supporting consumers throughout their time at the Mental Health & Wellbeing Local Service. Peer Support Workers are an important element of the team approach and bring the wisdom of experience to many aspects of service delivery including intake interviews, service promotion, partnership work and case reviews.

• Personal lived/living experience of recovery as a family, friend or carer. Your recovery experience may be related to mental health, suicidal crisis, drugs and alcohol use or trauma.
• Willingness to identify or be identified by others as a professional with lived experience of recovery.
• Willingness to share and draw on lived experience purposefully in the role to instill confidence and hope in others about the journey of recovery.

What you will bring:

• Lived experience of mental illness, mental health crisis or caring for someone living with a mental illness and demonstrated experience of recovery.
• Experience of the public or private mental health system.
• Proven experience at managing teams within the area of community service delivery or providing supervision.
• Mental Health Qualification: It is a requirement of the Peer Support Lead position that you hold, and provide Neami evidence of, a Mental Health (or equivalent Human Services, Community Services) qualification of Certificate IV level or above, or complete such a qualification within 2 years of your commencement of employment.

How to apply:Email your resume to Melissa, Cody or Katie atFor any queries regarding the position or application process, contact Melissa, Cody or Katie onTRADEWIND AUSTRALIA AND THE ORGANISATIONS WE REPRESENT ARE PROUD TO BE EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES EMPLOYERS.We welcome applications from people who reflect the diversity of the organisations we partner with, and the people they support. We encourage people of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander background and people with disability and lived experience to apply.Get similar jobs like these by emailBy submitting your details you agree to ourConsultantShare this jobYou know how people say, "come to me with solutions, not problems" ...we're not like that.