Senior Family Peer Co-Ordinator

Children's Health Queensland Hospital and Health Service; Beaudesert; On-site; AUD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

12.75% employer superannuation

Annual pay increases

Salary packaging

Employee wellness program

Work/life balance

Job summary

Children's Health Queensland Hospital and Health Service in Beaudesert is seeking a Senior Family Peer Coordinator to support frontline services for children and families. The role draws on lived experience of recovery to inspire hope and guide service delivery within a child and youth mental health context.

Based in the local service, you will work within CHQ values and leadership frameworks to deliver consumer-focused care, participate in carer engagement activities, and collaborate across

Responsibilities

• Be a positive role model for Consumers and staff, sharing experiences to inspire recovery.
• Communicate with Consumers, Carers, and professionals to plan, deliver and evaluate care.
• Provide routine consumer carer support, assess needs to assist case managers in child and family mental health care.
• Maintain knowledge and skills on consumer carer participation to improve outcomes for children, youth and carers.
• Advocate and facilitate consumer carer understanding and participation using best practice.
• Contribute to development of consumer carer participation activities aligned with procedures and continuum of care.

Job description

This frontline support role provides essential support enabling the development and delivery of frontline services, programs and outcomes. The role of Senior Family Peer Coordinator is based on the idea that people who have had a Lived Experience of mental illness and have experienced recovery can support others experiencing mental health difficulties and can intentionally engender hope by role-modelling recovery in a way that others without Lived Experience cannot.

About The Team

The Head to Health Kids Queensland (H2HK-Q) Brisbane Service is a secondary level child development, mental health and wellbeing service, targeting children between the ages of 0-12 years of age who are experiencing emerging complexities related to a mental health and/or developmental issue (formal diagnosis is not required). The service will aim to:

• Provide access to comprehensive, multidisciplinary care which supports children and their families.
• Improve early intervention outcomes for children's mental health and wellbeing; and

Whilst governed by Children's Health Queensland, the H2HK-Q Brisbane Service is a genuine community service that will work with the local community and our partners to improve accessibility to health and social services to meet the needs of the young person and their family and support system.

About The Role

In this role you will deliver quality outcomes for children, young people and families (Leader of Self) in accordance with the Children's Health Queensland Leadership Excellence Framework and the Queensland Public Service and the CHQ values. Your contribution will include:

• Serve as a positive role model to Consumers and staff and as a source of information on their personal experience of mental health, recovery and wellbeing.
• Effectively communicate with Consumers, Carers, professional groups and all service providers to assist in planning, delivering and evaluating care and a Consumer focussed service.
• Provision of routine consumer carer support services including assessment of needs to assist case managers to respond to the mental health care of children, young people and their carer networks.
• Demonstrate appropriate and competent levels of knowledge and skills concerning consumer carer participation practice necessary to assist in optimising the outcomes of children, young people and their carer network in a child and youth mental health setting.
• Guided by evidence based best practice, demonstrate ability to advocate, support and facilitate consumer carer understanding, engagement and participation.
• Participate in the development of consumer carer participation activities, appropriate with mental health practice procedures and protocols that support the continuum of care.

About Children's Health Queensland Hospital and Health Service (CHQ HHS)

Children's Health Queensland is a recognised leader in paediatric healthcare, teaching and research, delivering a full range of clinical services and training, tertiary and quaternary care and health promotion programs to children and young people from across Queensland and northern New South Wales.

Our interprofessional workforce of more than 5,000 people deliver responsive, integrated and internationally recognised person-centred care through a network of services and facilities, including the Queensland Children's Hospital , Jacaranda Place, Ellen Barron Family Centre, our Child and Youth Community Health Service , our Child and Youth Mental Health Service , and other statewide services and programs including specialist outreach and telehealth services.

Inclusion and diversity

To encourage inclusive practices in recruitment, we are committed to increasing our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Workforce and building inclusive cultures that respect and promote human rights and Workforce Diversity and Inclusion. CHQ is an equal opportunity employer.

Some of the great benefits of working at CHQ HSS

If you're looking for a rewarding career, and you're excited to contribute to the development of Australia's best paediatric health service, come and join the team at CHQ and enjoy a range of benefits including:

• Opportunities for professional growth and development
• Competitive renumeration
• Annual pay increases
• 12.75% employer superannuation contribution
• 17.5% annual leave loading
• Salary packaging
• Employee wellness and assistance program
• Work/life balance, variety, and flexibility

Benefits

You can find out more about why it's so great to work at CHQ HHS here .

Occupational group

Administration