Lived Experience Led - Peer Practitioner

One Door; Geelong; On-site; AUD 42,000 - 60,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

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

Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

Fitness Passport

Job summary

Mind Australia in Geelong seeks a Lived Experience Led – Peer Practitioner for fixed-term, part-time and casual roles. You will draw on your lived experience to support healing and provide peer space in a home-like setting.

The role uses a rotating 24/7 roster, requiring compassion, honesty and connection as you walk with people through distress toward recovery. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are strongly encouraged to apply.

Qualifications

• Have a lived/living experience of mental distress and recovery and understanding of, and ability and willingness to, contribute this Lived Expertise in working towards greater organisational impact.
• Completion of Intentional Peer Support Core and/ or Advanced Training
• Certificate IV in Mental Health Peer Work is desirable but not required
• Completion of other relevant Consumer Discipline trainings are desired but not required e.g.: Consumer Perspective Supervision, Alt2Su, Hearing Voices etc.
• Previous experience in using lived experience and expertise in a dedicated Peer role strongly desirable

Responsibilities

• Demonstrate knowledge and abilities gained from lived/living experiences and Lived Expertise, and support development of these approaches.
• Support the team to deliver recovery-oriented practices from a peer/Lived Experience perspective.
• Walk alongside people during their stay using an Intentional Peer Support model.
• Assist with system navigation and linkages to community agencies to aid participation.

Skills

Lived experience

Peer support

Recovery-oriented practice

Cultural safety

Empathy & communication

Education

Certificate IV in Mental Health Peer Work

Job description

• Opportunity to utilise your learnings from lived/living experience to hold space and opportunity for healing
• Fixed term Part time & Casual Opportunities
• Geelong Location
  

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

  Mind Australia is one of Australia’s largest providers of community-managed psychosocial services, supporting people experiencing mental health and wellbeing challenges to find help, hope and purpose in their lives. Operating for almost 50 years and employing more than 1,300 staff around Australia, Mind is a leading employer of people with lived experience of mental health challenges, recognising their unique ability to connect with and motivate clients and guide recovery.

  About the role

  The Peer Healing Space provides free short-term support in a home-like setting for people experiencing mental health crisis and distress.

  This innovative trial service is designed and run by a highly experienced and skilled peer workforce. Peer Practitioners are trained to draw on the experience, knowledge and wisdom of their own mental health challenges to support others in their healing and recovery.

  We are seeking a compassionate Lived Experience Led – Peer Practitioners for a fixed term, part time and casual opportunities in the Geelong area. Working a rotating 24/7 roster, you will utilise your learnings from lived/living experience of mental health challenges, languages of pain and other intersectional identities to hold space and opportunity for healing for those accessing the Peer Healing Space.

  Key responsibilities

  • Demonstrate knowledge and abilities gained from both an individuals lived/living experiences, collective impacts and Lived Expertise, and be able to support the development of these approaches.
  • Support your team to understand and role model the delivery of services and approaches that are consistent with recovery-oriented practice from a peer/Lived Experience perspective.
  • Work within an Intentional Peer Support model to Walk alongside people during their stay, ensuring that even in the moments where a person is experiencing deep distress you continue to be honest, and open, holding connection and relationship at the heart of your interaction.
  • Assist the person 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

  What you’ll bring

  • Completion of Intentional Peer Support Core and/ or Advanced Training
  • Certificate IV in Mental Health Peer Work, is desirable but not required
  • Completion of other relevant Consumer Discipline trainings are desired but not required eg: Consumer Perspective Supervision, Alt2Su, Hearing Voices etc.
  • Have a lived/living experience of mental distress and recovery and understanding of, and ability and willingness to, contribute this Lived Expertise in working towards greater organisational impact.
  • Previous experience in using lived experience and expertise in a dedicated Peer role strongly desirable

  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, child care, car leasing expenses etc.)
  • 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.

  Position Description

  PD - Lived Experience Led and or Social and Emotional Wellbeing Peer Practitioner (LERS) 20260218.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]