Alfred Health

Alfred Health is a leader in health care delivery, improvement, research and education. We are the main provider of health services to people living in the inner southeast suburbs of Melbourne, from ambulatory to inpatient and home and community-based services. 

Draw from your own lived and/or living experience to provide consumer directed tailored support to consumers in The Alfred's IPU.

• Permanent, Part-time (3 days/wk)
• Based at The Alfred Adult Inpatient Unit
• Lived Experience Worker Level 2
• Personal experience of a having a significant mental health challenge

What's in it for you

• Supportive multi-disciplinary team environment
• Work-life balance
• Regular lived experience and professional supervision
• An opportunity to be involved in changing perceptions and reducing stigma surrounding mental health issues! 

About us

Alfred Mental & Addiction Health is responsible for the operation of services, which focus on people with a severe mental illness residing in the Inner South Eastern area of Melbourne.

The single most important goal of AMAH is to create an environment that facilitates clinical recovery, supports individual recovery efforts and strives to minimise service system barriers to the recovery process.

What you’ll be doing

Using your lived experience of mental distress and recovery, you will provide psychosocial support and non-crisis interventions to consumers in the Adult Inpatient Unit (IPU) and post discharge space, which is for up to 28 days following discharge. You will be supported with line management and peer supervision in this role.

In this role, you will draw from your own lived and/or living experience to provide consumer directed tailored support to consumers in the IPU and post discharge in collaboration with existing treatment plans and support structures.

In addition, you will work with and alongside the multidisciplinary teams within the IPU to identify consumers who would benefit from peer support post discharge. Whilst Lived Experience Peer Support Workers are not clinicians, they are as much a valued part of our team. Our Lived Experience Peer Support Workers have a key responsibility to help inform our service design and delivery. In this context, sharing insights that are drawn from your own lived experience may be really important in enabling another staff member or team to develop an understanding of a person’s experiences, or how we may be working and the potential impact of this on a person’s experience.

About you

• Personal experience of having a significant mental health challenge and the ability to use own experience to inspire hope and belief in recovery
• Certificate IV in Peer Work (desirable)
• Full Covid-19 and Influenza vaccination
• Australian working rights
• Current Victorian Driver Licence and be willing to undergo a Background Check

Other benefits

• Portable long service leave from other public health services

• Great employment benefits as part of Alfred Health - Wellbeing initiatives, access to salary packaging, novated leasing and discounted health insurance and banking
• Located close to public transport, shops and cafes

If this opportunity sounds like it is for you, click the "Apply Now" button, include your resume and cover letter. 

For more information regarding the position please contact Maire Hall on ph: 0429 279 229

Alfred Health is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to attracting and retaining a diverse workforce that reflects the community we serve.  Applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders are encouraged.

In accordance with the Health Minister's Covid-19 Mandatory Vaccination Order, all Alfred Health employees are required to be fully vaccinated (3 doses) for COVID-19 or hold an acceptable medical exemption. Furthermore, in accordance with the Health Services Amendment (Mandatory Vaccination of Healthcare Workers) Act 2020, health care workers in Category A or B roles (as determined by the department’s risk ratings) are required to be vaccinated against influenza or hold an acceptable medical exemption. 

Website: www.alfredhealth.org.au

A position description is attached.