Lived Experience Support Worker Older Adult Mental Health

Northern Health; Melbourne; On-site; AUD 65,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Northern Health is seeking a Lived Experience Support Worker for Older Adult Mental Health to join our team across multiple campuses. You will bring your lived experience to support families and carers, advocate for consumers, and promote their voice in treatment planning within the Older Adult Mental Health Division.

Role focuses on emotional support, navigation of mental health services, and linkage to community supports for carers.

Qualifications

• Experience and good working knowledge of Mental health and wellbeing act.
• Proven ability to connect and engage with carers and consumers.
• Well-developed communications skills.
• Willingness to learn and complete the free training offered for Lived and living experience workforce in Victoria including single session framework for the carer and lived experience workforce, intentional peer support, consumer and family/carer perspective supervision.

Responsibilities

• Provide one to one support utilising the Intentional Peer Support framework.
• Assisting with the orientation and introduction of consumers and carers to the service and available supports.

Skills

Mental health knowledge

Carer engagement

Communication skills

Lived experience

Job description

Lived Experience Support Worker Older Adult Mental Health

Reference Number:54448:Lived Experience Support Worker- Older Adult Mental HealthEmployment Type:On Going Full Time (FT)Location:Northern Health (All Campuses)

About Northern Health:

As an organisation we have a clear focus on how we service and partner with our community, including our strategy of helping the community stay well when at home. Our reputation of community minded, inclusive and progressive is matched to none.

Northern Health is located in the rapidly growing northern suburbs with projected growth the biggest in the state. With a booming, culturally rich and diverse community, and less than an hour’s drive from the CBD (still within the bounds of Myki and ride-sharing), Melbourne’s North is fast becoming the place to be.

Northern Health are seeking applications from motivated and suitably experiencedLived Experience Support worker to join the Northern Health Older Adult Mental Health and Aged Care program.

Northern Health is the major provider of acute, maternity, sub-acute, mental health, specialist, community and home-based services in Melbourne’s rapidly growing outer north.

Services are provided through our six main campuses:

Northern Hospital Epping, Broadmeadows Hospital, Bundoora Centre, Craigieburn and Mernda Community Hospitals Centres and Kilmore District Hospital. In addition, Mental Health Services are provided at Epping, Broadmeadows, Jacana, Preston, Mill Park, Mernda and Coburg.

About the Role:

Lived Experience Support worker -Older Adult Clinician

Lived experience support workers bring the wisdom of livedexperience to many aspects of service delivery, including provision of emotional support, advocacy,information about navigating the mental health system, and linkage to relevant community services for thecarers ofour service users.

They use their lived experience of caringfor someone with mental health challenges to promote the voice of our families and carers, ensuring that they are included in treatment planning for our consumers.

This position is responsible for:

Providing lived experience carer support advise and advocate for our Older adult consumers and their cars Across our older adult Mental Health Division. This includes the Specialist Older Adult Community Serviceslocatedat Broadmeadows Hospital and Bundoora Centre campuses, Our Acute older adult Inpatients unitslocatedat Broadmeadows Hospital and Bundoora Centre campuses. And our Residential mental Health Homeslocatedat Broadmeadows Hospital and Bundoora Centre campuses.

Providing a non-clinical alternative perspective to consumers and carers by utilising and intentionally sharing knowledge, skills and experience arising from their own challenges and accessing mental health services;

• Provide one to one Support utilising the Intentional Peer Support framework;
• Assisting with the orientation and introduction of Consumers and carers to the service and available supports

To be successful in this role you will have:

• Experience and good working knowledge of Mental health and wellbeing act
• Proven ability to connect and engaged with carers and consumers
• Well-developed communications skills
• Wiliness's to learn and complete the free training offered for Lived and living experience workforce in Victoria including single session framework for the carer and lived experience workforce , intentional peer support, consumer and family/carer perspective supervision

Why work at the Northern