LGBTIQA+ Youth Peer Practitioner

Mind Australia Limited; Traralgon; On-site; AUD 52,000 - 70,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary packaging up to $15,899 p.a.

Meal & Entertainment allowance up to $

8 weeks paid parental leave

17.5% annual leave loading

Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

Fitness Passport

Professional development & coaching

Job summary

Mind Australia is seeking a self-motivated LGBTIQA+ Youth Peer Practitioner for a Permanent, Part Time (22.5 hrs per week) role in the Latrobe region. This position engages clients using lived experience to foster recovery, mutuality, and human rights.

You will work closely with families and community services, champion voice of lived experience, and participate in program co-design and evaluation to improve service delivery.

Qualifications

• Completion of Intentional Peer Support Core and/ or Advanced Training, or Certificate IV in Mental Health Peer Work.
• Lived/living experience and willingness to support clients through sharing your own learnings.
• Identify as LGBTIQA+ young person and share learnings to support recovery.

Responsibilities

• Draw on lived experience to inform practice within the LGBTIQA+ community.
• Support holistically, including intersecting factors like substance use, trauma, and social inclusion.
• Collaborate with Relationships and Family Engagement worker to support families and carers.

Skills

Lived experience

LGBTIQA+ youth work

Mutuality-based practice

Co-design & coproduction

CPR & First Aid

COVID-19 vaccination proof

Education

Peer work training/certificate

Job description

Mind strongly encourages applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, people with a lived experience of mental ill health and recovery, and applicants from all cultures, genders, sexualities, bodies, abilities, spiritualities, ages and backgrounds.

Mind Australia is one of the country’s leading community-managed specialist mental health service providers with a range of residential, mobile outreach, centre based and online services. Mind has been supporting people experiencing mental health and wellbeing challenges to find help, hope and purpose in their lives for more than 45 years.

We provide practical and motivational support that helps people to develop the skills they need to move on, thrive and improve the quality of their lives. It’s an approach to mental health and wellbeing that looks at the whole person in the context of their daily life. Mind is committed to diversity and social inclusion.

About the service

The Sub-Acute short stay ‘step up, step down’ Prevention and Recovery Care (PARC) service is delivered in partnership with Mind, Victorian hospital networks and the health service supporting people with psychosocial disability transition from an acute hospital setting or to prevent hospital admissions by providing extra support to those entering directly from the community. PARC people can access Mind staff 24 hours a day whilst being supported to achieve their recovery goals, enhance relationships with families and carers, develop social and community connections, build confidence and increase capacity to live safely in the community.

The service provides personalised one-to-one support, shared supports, workshops and group work based on client’s strengths and goals as identified in their individual recovery plan. The 3 different PARC models are: Youth (16-25 years), Adult (25-65 years) and Extended Adult (25-65 years but a longer stay of up to 6 months). The Adult and Youth Prevention and Recovery Care service (A&YPARC) is a residential program providing short term, intensive treatment to people aged between 16-65 years living with mental ill health. The service works within a recovery focused, clinical treatment framework in line with Mind’s Model of Recovery Oriented Practice and organisational values.

About the role

We are seeking a self-motivated LGBTIQA+ Youth Peer Practitioner for a Permanent, Part Time (working 22.5 hrs per week) opportunity in the Latrobe region. This role will see you utilising your lived and living mental health challenges and/or alcohol and drug challenges to engage directly with clients through providing empathetic and positive support. Will champion the voice of lived experience, advocate for human rights and provide an alternative to traditional mental health responses through the practice of mutuality.

Key responsibilities

• Draw on the broader Lived Experience knowledge base as a member of the LGBTIQA+ community to inform your practice.
• Understand a person in a holistic way including where their experiences intersect with alcohol and drug, domestic violence, trauma, self-injury and suicide, culture etc.
• Work closely with the Relationships and Family Engagement worker to support family and carer roles through understanding their concerns and the provision of information, education and referrals.
• Assist service users with system navigation and linkages to community agencies or support systems that will assist them to address life impacts and barriers to full social, educational and employment participation, as required.
• Be grounded in the discipline of Lived Expertise, drawing from your own lived experience, informed by a commitment to social change, human rights, dignity and choice to shape the delivery of their work and that of Mind.

What you’ll bring

• Completion of Intentional Peer Support Core and/ or Advanced Training, or Certificate IV in Mental Health Peer Work
• Lived/living experience and willingness to support clients through sharing your own learnings and recovery orientated practice.
• Identify as LGBTIQA+ young person, and willing to share learnings from your personal story in an appropriate and purposeful manner to support, empower, speak about the times of hopelessness and the importance of hope, and support the recovery of people.
• Experience, expertise and/or desire in working directly with LGBTIQA+ young people with mental health issues, and their families and carers.
• Spearhead co-design and coproduction in all aspects of the service including program evaluation, planning, decision making and service design.
• Able to obtain and provide evidence of vaccinations against COVID-19.
• Able to obtain CPR and First Aid certifications.

Benefits

• Salary packaging up to $15,899 p.a. allows you to allocate a portion of your pre-tax income to cover living expenses (e.g. rent, mortgage, childcare, car leasing expenses etc.)
• Option to access Meal and Entertainment allowance up to $2,650 p.a. via Salary Packaging.
• Generous leave entitlements including 8 weeks paid parental leave, 17.5% annual leave loading.
• Access to our Employee Assistance Program (EAP), provided by Converge International,for you and your immediate family members.
• Fitness Passport - Access to our corporate health and fitness program, providing you and family with access to a wide choice of fitness facilities.
• Professional development through regular Practice Development sessions and coaching with your supervisor.

Position Description

PD LGBTIQA Youth Peer Practitioner (YPARC LaTrobe) 20260120.pdf

The successful applicant is required to complete comprehensive reference and background checking prior to employment, including a Working with Children Check and NDIS Workers Screening Check.

We are committed to making reasonable adjustments to provide a positive, barrier-free recruitment process. If you require any support or reasonable adjustments to complete your application, please contact us at [e-mail]

Kerrie Ann Godfrey, Service Manager

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