Peer Workers

Anglicare SQ; Tamworth; On-site; AUD 56,000 - 60,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Tax-Free Salary Packaging

Salary packaging

Flexible working conditions

Career progression

Job summary

Flourish Australia in Tamworth is seeking Peer Workers to support people with lived experience of mental health challenges in community and accommodation settings. Your lived experience is valued as a form of expertise to help clients set goals and navigate services.

You will work on a 24/7 rotating roster, including weekdays, weekends, evenings and overnight shifts. Based in Tamworth, you will be paid an hourly rate of $40.49–$43.42 plus super and salary packaging.

Qualifications

• A Certificate IV or above in a relevant field OR a minimum of 2-years full-time experience in human services.
• A personal lived experience of a mental health challenge and recovery.
• Willing and able to use your lived experience in a respectful, recovery-focused way.
• Understanding of Flourish Australia values and recovery-based practice.

Responsibilities

• Hold recovery and social citizenship conversations to connect with clients.
• Guide and support individuals in their recovery, focusing on strengths and goals.
• Contribute to reducing stigma surrounding mental health lived experience.
• Support access to activities promoting independence.
• Encourage skill development through self-directed learning and education.

Skills

Lived experience

Microsoft Office

Recovery-based practice

Education

Certificate IV or above in a relevant field

2+ years in human services field

Tools

Data information management systems

Job description

Walk alongside people on their mental health recovery journeys and support them to achieve their hopes and dreams!

Flourish Australia has multiple exciting opportunities forPeer Workersto join ourTamworth Accomodationteams.

The positions available are:

Part-time (45.6 hours & 60.8hours)

Working a 24/7 rotating roster including weekday, weekend, evening, and active overnight shifts

Based in Tamworth

Attractive hourly ratesequivalentto$40.49 - $43.42/hour + Super + Salary Packaging!

About the Opportunities

As aPeer Worker, you will work in the community and in an accommodation setting to support people accessing our services who have a lived experience of mental health challenges to achieve their hopes and dreams. Your personal lived experience of mental health challenges, trauma, recovery and navigating services is recognised as a form of Lived Experience Expertise. You use this expertise intentionally, safely, and purposefully to build relationships grounded in mutuality, shared understanding, respect, and hope. Through authentic connection and values-aligned self-disclosure, you support people to explore their strengths, rights, choices, and self-defined recovery goals, always honouring their roles as the expert in their own life.

On a day to day basis you will:

• Effectively and appropriately hold recovery and social citizenship conversations with people who access our services in order to connect with them, support them and build reciprocity, via mutual understanding, trust and shared experience.
• Effectively and appropriately guide and support each individual in their recovery and be strengths, ability and possibility focused, whilst ensuring they are the leads in their own recovery journey.
• Effectively contribute to decreasing stigma and discrimination around having a lived experience of a mental health challenge.
• Support the person to access activities and opportunities that promote independence.
• Support skill development at every opportunity through self-directed learning, information, training, and education.

Please note - Successful candidates must maintain a Class C drivers license and proof of comprehensive insurance must be provided when required. You may be directed to use your private motor vehicle in the course of performing your duties when an organisational pool motorvehicle is unavailable.You will receive the Travelling Transport and Fares Allowance when using your private vehicle for work related purposes.

Who we are

Flourish Australia is one of Australia’s most experienced community mental health organisations. Our purpose is to support people to flourish, believe in their futures, and become contributing members of the community.

Our services are comprehensive and highly personalised because each person’s experience will be different and their needs, as an individual, are unique. Together we set goals, connect individuals with the right people, support services and opportunities to meet their needs.

Our positions are opento all suitably qualified applicants. We have a strong commitment to the participation of people with lived experience of mental health challenges in our workforce. We value diversity and encourage applications from suitably qualified people from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander backgrounds, people from Culturally and Linguistically Diverse communities, LGBTQ+ communities and mature age candidates.

Selection Criteria

• A Certificate IV or above in a relevant field OR a minimum of 2-years full-time experience working in the human services field (as recognised by Flourish Australia).
• A personal lived experience of a mental health challenge and recovery.
• Willing and able to effectively, respectfully, and appropriately use your lived experience of a mental health challenge and recovery.
• Demonstrated alignment to Flourish Australia’s values.
• A strong understanding and commitment to recovery-based practice in the workplace.
• Understanding of the challenges faced by people with a lived experience of mental health challenges.
• Understanding of, and ability to effectively use, Microsoft Office and knowledge of data information management systems.

Flourish Australia recognises and values its people as demonstrated by:

• Level 3 (SCHCADS) on the Flourish Australia Enterprise Agreement (2018)
• Tax-Free Salary Packaging available up to $15,900 + additional $2,650 for entertainment benefits such as meals and holiday accommodation
• Generous leave provisions including17.5% leave loading + 2 additional days of personal leave + extra day paid leave over Christmas/New Year + paid parental leave
• Family-friendly andflexible working conditions
• Opportunities forcareer progression,professional development and trainingsuch asMental Health First Aid and ASIST
• Employee Assistance Programfor confidential wellbeing support
• Regularsupervision (reflective practice), ongoing 1:1mentoring, strongteam supportand acomprehensive inductionprogram
• Workplace Community Groupssuch as ourRainbow Networkfor LGBTQ+ staff members & allies andYarnUpfor Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander staff members
• PersonalFleet pricing discountswith our preferred automotive supplier
• Employee discounts at 400+ popular retailers(Woolworths, Expedia, Myer, Kmart etc)

All appointments with Flourish Australia's Mental Health Services are subject to an NDIS Worker Screening clearance, a National Criminal History Check, a WWCC, previous employment reference checks, satisfactory Australian residency status and other background checks. All successful applicants will be required to declare any private or secondary employment prior to commencement in line with Flourish Australia's Private or Secondary Employment Policy.