Peer Support Worker

Consumer Peer Support Worker (Level 3)
Royal Melbourne Hospital Mental Health Services

• Parttime ongoing opportunity | 64 hours per fortnight | 4 days per week with a rotating roster, including weekends
• Join a supportive and collaborative team dedicated to making a positive impact on individuals' lives.
• City Campus | Close to public transport | Generous salary packaging

RMH Mental Health Services is at the forefront of innovative mental health and addiction treatment, with a strong focus on culturally safe and trauma-informed practice. As part of our multidisciplinary teams, you will work alongside clinical and lived and living experience staff across a range of mental health settings.

Your purpose

• Provide person-centred, non-clinical peer support that honours each person’s story, strengths and self-determination
• Support consumers to identify their own goals, choices and pathways to recovery
• Build connections with consumers based on trust, safety, respect and shared understanding
• Use the principles and values of Intentional Peer Support in your day-to-day practice
• Connect consumers with Safe Haven, community supports and other relevant programs and services

About you

• Minimum 1 year experience in a similar Lived Experience Peer Support role
• ​Capacity to work some evening shifts 1.00pm – 9.00pm across weekdays/ weekends on a rotating roster.
• Completion of Intentional Peer Support core training
• Experience in a peer support or similar lived experience role
• Strong ability to build respectful connections through shared understanding, mutuality and trust
• A strengths-based approach that values diverse experiences, perspectives and voices
• Understanding of the principles and practice of Intentional Peer Support
• Experience developing and facilitating group activities will be highly regarded
• Certificate IV in Mental Health and experience working with ACCHO and Aboriginal communities and families will be highly regarded

Benefits of Working at RMH

• Meaningful Work
  Make a real difference in the lives of patients, families and our community.
• Career Growth
  Access learning, development, and diverse career opportunities.
• Supportive Culture & Belonging
  Join in a diverse and values-led organisation built on kindness, collaboration and inclusion.
• Innovation
  Help shape the future of healthcare through research, technology and new models of care.
• World-Class Excellence
  Work alongside leading healthcare professionals at one of Australia's premier public hospitals, within the Parkville Precinct—one of the world's leading biomedical and research precincts.
• Enjoy great employee benefits
  Salary packaging of up to $12,000 tax free and generous leave entitlements, including additional annual leave and a monthly accrued day off for eligible full-time staff (role/EBA dependent).

• Work in the Parkville Precinct
  Work in the Parkville precinct with excellent public transport, onsite parking options and access to staff health services.

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Interviews may commence as applications are received. Early applications are encouraged as the role may close once filled.