Address$41 p/h + superannuation + salary sacrifice
Part-time 38hrs p/forntight
Fixed-term position
About the role:
We are currently seeking a part-time Peer Support Worker to join our team in Emerald. Our Peer Support Worker will share the learnings and wisdom of a personal lived experience (mental health issue) to inspire hope for recovery. They will provide a distinct advantage in sharing openly and appropriately to build professional relationships with participants. They will develop groups to build personal connections and life skills and support people to restore, maintain and develop relationships.
What will a typical day look like?
- Effectively and appropriately hold crucial conversations with people who access our services to connect, support and build mutual understanding, trust, and shared experience.
- Develop groups to reduce social isolation and build capacity.
- Effectively support people who access our services to build their own hope.
- Effectively contribute to decreasing stigma and discrimination around having a lived experience of a mental health issue.
- Model personal recovery, self-awareness, self-belief, self-advocacy, and hopefulness by sharing your own story of recovery.
- Support the participant to make links to the community that meet their recovery wants and needs.
- Continue to support people who have entered the workforce and education.
Mandatory Requirements:
- Full COVID-19 Vaccination
- Certificate IV in Mental Health or Peer Support Certificate.
- Understanding of the Queensland Mental Health Act 2016, the National Disability Insurance Scheme Act 2013 as well as relevant laws and legislation.
- Ability to obtain a Blue Card (working with children check positive notice or exemption)
- Ability to obtain a Yellow Card (disability services positive notice or exemption notice)
Who we are:
For almost 40 years, our truly local team of professionals have worked with people from a variety of backgrounds and beliefs to support them in living their best life. AnglicareCQ is a not-for-profit, purpose-driven organisation – and we give effect to that purpose through our staff. We endeavour to make the most ordinary things extraordinary – simply by doing them with the right people.
AnglicareCQ offers a diverse scope of interdependent and inter-related career paths which enables staff mobility and growth. Careers with AnglicareCQ are from a wide range of disciplines including leadership, community services, child protection, housing, and support services. We serve communities in and around Rockhampton, the Capricorn Coast, Gladstone, Biloela, Moura, Blackwater, Emerald, Barcaldine, and Longreach.
What you will bring to the role:
- A passion and genuine desire to make a difference in the lives of Central Queenslanders.
- Proven ability to build and maintain relationships with a variety of stakeholders.
- The ability to identify and embed solutions.
- Demonstrated experience working within a high-performance framework where you are accountable for KPIs on program delivery and outcomes, within a face-paced solutions focussed environment.
- Effective time management and organisational skills.
- A strong communicator, able to quickly build rapport and influence across a diverse range of people.
What are the benefits of working for AnglicareCQ?
We have a common purpose throughout our organisation to serve the people of Central Queensland, to help them live their best life. AnglicareCQ offers the opportunity to engage in meaningful employment and be part of a holistic team that supports people in our local communities.
- We offer attractive salary sacrifice to all part-time and full-time employees.
- We offer the opportunity to work within an organisation committed to social change.
- Full time employees have the opportunity to accrue/utilise TOIL in line with office hours to increase flexibility.
- We have a supportive and pragmatic management team.
- Professional development and study are encouraged and supported.
- We offer a professional work environment filled with passionate, diverse and driven people.
- We provide access to health and wellness programs for all staff.
Have questions? Call or email our Recruitment and Onboarding Officer to learn more:
Kirby Lee
(07) 4837 5393
Applications close at 8am Friday 28th June
Attachments:
- Appendix 1.pdf
- Information Guide for Applicants.pdf
- PD Peer Support Worker PT.pdf
