Job Summary
- $72,891 to $82,519 FTE (Gross per annum, PLUS Superannuation and Leave Loading)
- Applications close:
- Job posted on: 29th Nov 2024
- Regional NSW > Lismore & Far North Coast
3 days left to apply
Our regional teams engage with LGBTQ+ people, community members and people living with HIV (PLHIV) in providing care coordination, peer support, counselling services, delivering health promotion campaigns, undertaking community development and peer education initiatives, supporting community groups and events, providing training and support to mainstream services, and providing access to the needle and syringe program.
The Peer Worker (Suicide Prevention) is essentially utilising your lived experience of suicide and mental health challenges to support LGBTQ+ community members experiencing suicidal distress or following a recent attempt. This role is a part of a multidisciplinary team consisting of lived experience and non-lived experience roles responding to the needs of LGBTQ+ community members, however peer support may be delivered as a standalone support service depending on the support preferences of individual community members.
You will:
ACON provides a colourful, nurturing, and fun workplace. Our employees and volunteers are the foundation for our ongoing effectiveness and for our capacity to deliver innovative community engagement and health promotion programs and initiatives for our communities.
To support the successful candidate in their new role at ACON we offer:
Salary: $72,891 to $82,519 FTE (Gross per annum, PLUS Superannuation and Leave Loading) – commensurate with skills, qualifications, and experience ($43,734 to $49,512 for 3 days / week).
Location: ACON’s Bundjalung/Northern Rivers office (Lismore) with some flexible working options a possibility (WAFTO).
Hours: Part-Time (42 hours per fortnight) on a fixed term contract, with the possibility of extension.
We offer flexible working arrangements and a generous array of entitlements often above the National Employment Standards (NES) including:
Applications for this role will take you to the employer’s site.
3 days left to apply