Peer Worker Carer - Advanced

Queensland Health; Brisbane; On-site; AUD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Family-friendly environment

Professional development allowances

Generous leave entitlements

Job summary

Queensland Health is seeking a Carer Peer Support Worker to use lived experience as a carer to support carers and families of consumers in an acute adult inpatient setting.

You will provide peer support, education, advocacy and information, work with a multidisciplinary team, and develop peer-led groups to improve carer engagement and recovery outcomes.

Qualifications

• Must have personal lived experience as a carer of someone with mental health or addiction issues.
• Ability to provide peer support, advocacy, education and group facilitation.
• Ability to build respectful relationships with carers, families, consumers, staff and partners.

Responsibilities

• Provide individual and group peer support, education, advocacy and information to carers and families.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary team to strengthen carer engagement and recovery-focused practice.
• Develop and co-facilitate peer-led groups and education programs, enhancing carer inclusion in inpatient services.

Skills

Lived experience

Peer support

Group facilitation

Job description

Queensland Health – Upper Mount Gravatt QLD

Your Lived Experience Can Make a Difference

Turn your experience into hope, connection and support for carers and families navigating mental health challenges.

Your new role:

As a Carer Peer Support Worker, you will use your own lived/living experience as a carer of a person experiencing mental health issues to provide hope, practical support and guidance to carers and families of consumers receiving care in an acute adult inpatient setting.

• Provide individual and group peer support, education, advocacy and information to carers and families, drawing on your own lived/living experience of supporting someone with mental health and/or addiction issues.
• Work collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team to strengthen carer and family engagement, promote recovery-focused practice and improve outcomes for consumers, carers and families.
• Develop and co-facilitate peer-led support groups, education and skills-training programs, while identifying opportunities to make inpatient services more carer- and family-inclusive.

About you:

We are looking for a compassionate and collaborative person who can draw on their personal lived/living experience to support and empower other carers and families throughout their mental health journey.

• You have personal lived/living experience as a carer of a person experiencing mental health issues and can use this experience appropriately to foster hope, recovery and resilience in others.
• You are confident providing peer support, advocacy, education and group facilitation, and can build respectful relationships with carers, families, consumers, staff and community partners.
• You work effectively as part of a multidisciplinary team, understand the importance of professional boundaries and peer work values, and demonstrate a commitment to safe, respectful and inclusive practice.

What we can offer you:

• We offer a family-friendly work environment that supports you in making the most of Queensland's laid-back lifestyle.
• We are renowned for teaching and research excellence with strong relations with Queensland's leading tertiary institutions.
• We want to empower you to build a long-term career, with countless opportunities to learn and grow, no matter your role
• You’ll have all the benefits of working for Queensland's world-class public health system including generous leave entitlements, attractive salary and remuneration packages, salary packaging and access to relevant professional development allowances and/or leave, study and research assistance, corporate discounts and employee wellness programs.

About us:

Metro South Addiction and Mental Health Services:

Metro South Addiction and Mental Health Services provide inpatient, hospital-based and community mental health and communityalcohol and drugservices for all age groups across a number of campuses.

We embrace a forward looking, progressive approach and work collaboratively with all stakeholders in order to achieve expected outcomes. A clear and strong consumer and carer focus is promoted with our vision being to provide our community excellence in consumer centred, integrated care across the continuum of addiction (alcohol and drug) and mental health services.

INTEGRITY | COMPASSION | ACCOUNTABILITY | RESPECT | ENGAGEMENT | EXCELLENCE

Our values were created by employees for employees to shape our culture and inspire positive interactions in the workplace. Diversity of ideas, skills, traditions, and customs is celebrated as one of our greatest strengths. Having a workforce that reflects and understands the needs and expectations of our community is important to delivering safe, kinder, and more inclusive care.

We recognise our strength comes from the diversity of our people and so we encourage people of all genders, ethnicities, ages, abilities, languages, sexual orientation, and family responsibilities to apply.

We are better together.