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SalaryEmployment Type: Casual
Position Classification: Health Education Officer Graduate, Health Education Officer Non Graduate
Remuneration: $30.45 - $50.71 per hour, plus superannuation
Hours Per Week: up to 38
Requisition ID: REQ454924
Are you a Mental Health consumer with lived experience who wants to assist and support other consumers on their journery to recovery? You will be working in an innovative and supportive team of like-minded peers and clinicians. Join our Casual Pool at ESMHS and work as much or as little as you like!
You will have the opportunity to pick up available shifts across our various teams providing you the fleixibility of work/life balance.
Where you'll be working
Community Mental Health, Eastern Suburbs Mental Health Service, located on the Prince of Wales Hospital campus, Randwick. What you'll be doing
The vision for South Eastern Sydney Local Health District (SESLHD) is ‘exceptional care, healthier lives’. SESLHD is committed to enabling our community to be healthy and well, and to providing the best possible compassionate care when people need it.
The Peer Support Worker will draw upon their lived experience of Mental Health challenges and their personal recovery journey, to develop empathic relationships and support personal recovery for Mental Health consumers of the South Eastern Sydney Local Health District (SESLHD).
The goal of the position is to support the consumer through their Mental Health Service journey by providing individual consultations, education and group interventions aimed at facilitating recovery principles of hope, choice, self-determination and social connectedness. Key focus areas include:physical health for Mental Health consumers, supporting consumers through their initial referral and engagement process, working with consumers and the treating team to prevent hospital admissions, and to and provide post discharge support from Mental Health Inpatient Units.
Based in hospital/community Mental Health centres, the Peer Support Worker role will span the full range of Mental Health settings through providing assertive in-reach support to consumers in Mental Health Inpatient Units and follow through support with consumers in in the community.
Employment of a temporary visa holder may only occur if no suitable permanent resident or citizen of Australia has been identified for this position following suitable labour market testing.
All workers and new recruits are required to receive 2 doses of a Therapeutic Goods Administration approved or recognised COVID-19 vaccine to commence employment/ engagement or continue to work within a NSW Health service.
A worker and new recruit will be considered compliant if they have a medical contraindication to all available Therapeutic Goods Administration approved or recognised COVID-19 vaccines and provide medical contraindication evidence in line with the policy requirements.
In addition, all Category A workers and new recruits are required to receive one dose of the seasonal influenza vaccine annually to be considered compliant.
Category A workers and new recruits who are non-compliant with seasonal influenza vaccination or have a medical contraindication to influenza or COVID-19 vaccinations must comply with all other infection control risk reduction strategies as directed while working in a Category A position.
SESLHD is committed to creating a workplace that reflects the diversity of our community. This will help ensure our employees, our patients and their carers, feel supported. We encourage people from different backgrounds to apply.
Support for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander candidates
We welcome applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander candidates and we have an Aboriginal Employment Consultant that can provide support. If you have any questions or would like guidance on the recruitment process, please contact the SESLHD Aboriginal Employment Team via email to:
Selection Criteria: * Personal experience as a consumer of Mental Health Services and ability to utilise the lived experience to support others in their own Mental Health recovery journey.
- Certificate IV in Mental Health Peer Work or willingness and commitment to obtain, or extensive relevant experience. For Graduate Health Education Officers, Relevant tertiary qualifications in health promotion or related discipline.
- Experience working in a Mental Health Peer Worker role, with the ability to plan, implement and evaluate group and individual peer led activities.
- Demonstrated knowledge of current local, State and National legislation and standards relevant to Mental Health.
- Demonstrated knowledge of and commitment to consumer led recovery principles and trauma informed care.
- Excellent communication (verbal and written) and interpersonal skills with the ability to collaborate effectively within the multi-disciplinary team and with a diverse range of stakeholders including consumers, families and service providers.
- Demonstrated ability to work independently with minimal supervision, as well as part of a multidisciplinary team with excellent computer skills (proficient in MS Office applications).
- Current drivers license (with a willingness to travel in accordance with demands of position).
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For role related queries or questions contact Steve Adei on stephen.adei@health.nsw.gov.au
Applications Close: 7 January 2024
