Mental Health and AOD Peer Worker

Neami National; Morwell; On-site; AUD 80,000 - 86,000; Full time

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Job summary

Neami National in Australia is seeking a Full-Time Maximum Term Peer Worker for the Neami Mental Health & Wellbeing Local Service in Morwell, Latrobe VIC. The role centers on peer-led, recovery-focused support for people experiencing mental health challenges.

You will work alongside mental health clinicians and nurses, applying a lived experience lens to practical, emotional, social, and service access support through mutual listening and belonging.

Responsibilities

• Support consumers using lived experience to navigate recovery.
• Engage in mutual listening, learning, and belonging within a multidisciplinary team.
• Assist with connecting people to resources and service access.

Job description

For all people in Australia living with mental health and wellbeing challenges to live a life that is meaningful to them.

• 1X Full-Time Maximum Term Position Available until 30 June 2027
• Classification:SCHADSLevel 3 with a salary range of$80,087 - $85,877per annum pro rata + Superannuation
• Salary packaging arrangements providing tax benefits available for living and entertainment expenses increasing your take home income where part of your wage is paid tax free each pay, savings thousands in tax each year
• Location: Latrobe VIC Locals, Morwell VIC

About your new role

Peer Workers are integral members of the team and represent 50% of the workforce within the Neami Mental Health & Wellbeing Local Service. Peer workers draw on their lived experience of recovery from co-occurring alcohol and other drug (AOD) use and mental illness, mental health crisis or caring for someone living with a co-occurring mental illness and alcohol and other drug use. PSWs walk alongside people experiencing crisis and distress in offering practical, emotional, social, and service access support that works out and responds to people’s need through a process of mutual listening, learning, being, doing, belonging and healing. This may include:

• Exploring the intersectional relationship of addiction and AoD use on mental health challenges which impact relationships, employment, identity, and power
• Exploring wellbeing and meaningful skills, ways, and activities for daily living, connecting with personal power, and self-care
• Connecting people to resources or advocating for people who may be accessing the service.

PSWs apply the Lived Experience lens as their primary way of working. Drawing on the National Lived Experience (Peer) Workforce Guidelines, the Lived Experience lens is:

• Learnings from personal experience of mental health challenges, distress and periods of healing, which may include service use
• Collective knowledge of universal lived experiences such as stigma, marginalisation, loss of power, and system hurt, as well as hope, healing, and personal recovery as real
• Professional principles and values such as mutuality, intersectionality, autonomy, hope and sharing power
• And the history of the Consumer movement, advocacy, and actions

You will work alongside a multi-disciplinaryteam inclusive of mental health clinicians, mental health registered nurses. Delivering a Peer First and Peer Last approach the Peer Support Workers will support a high engagement model of care, through actively greeting and supporting consumers throughout their time at Neami Mental Health & Wellbeing Local Service. Peer