Consumers of Mental Health WA (CoMHWA) is the peak body for consumers of mental health services in WA. As a community based not for profit organization, CoMHWA understands, listens and acts upon the voice of consumers of mental health and the wider community.

About the project

The Advancing Successful Peer Inclusion and Readiness for Employment (ASPIRE) Project is led by Consumers of Mental Health WA (CoMHWA). The Aspire Project will create new employment pathways for 50 people with psychosocial disability into peer work roles in Western Australia through a partnership of people with disability and employers to achieve workplace inclusion, employability and job creation.

Employers will be assisted with workplace readiness and inclusion through a readiness toolkit, pilot site testing of the toolkit and access to skilled disability peer work student placements. Individuals will be assisted through access to a new skills-based training pathway for peer work in disability settings, work-based placements and coaching in employment goals.

About the role

CoMHWA’s Peer Education and Placement Coordinator will collaboratively create new peer workforce pathways for individuals with mental health issues through training, placement support and capacity building for peer workers and employers.

This is a contract to 31st January 2023. Full-time position – 75 hours per fortnight. Negotiable working arrangements for preferred candidate. Immediate start.

Key responsibilities:

• Design, development and delivery of an effective peer work training program to build individual capacity and support workplace readiness.
• Collaboratively design Peer Support Worker student placement program.
• Coordinate placement support program and recruitment of participants.
• Develop, build and maintain productive relationships with key stakeholders.
• Contribute to the on-going development evaluation and improvement of the Project.
• Strengthen peer workforce/relationships.

To be successful:

• Lived experience of mental health recovery.
• An understanding and commitment to Peer Work.
• Demonstrated highly developed interpersonal and communication skills with a strong team orientation and consumer focus.
• Experience and/or demonstrated skills in development and delivery of training with an ability to present work in a consistent and highly professional manner.
• Experience and/or demonstrated leaderships skills in supporting and influencing change.
• Demonstrated capacity to work as part of a team on the basis of an ethos of collaboration, kindness, co-operation, respect and mutual support.
• Demonstrated planning and outstanding organisational skills, especially in relation to meeting deadlines and managing competing priorities.
• Ability to work autonomously and part of a team.
• Demonstrated analytical and problem-solving skills in order to develop strategies, ideas and opportunities for resolving issues.

In addition to the advertised salary the successful applicant will have the option to participate in a very attractive tax reducing salary packaging scheme.

Please view the attached JDF for further information on this role including the full list of selection criteria.