• Great team, respectful culture & supportive management
• Develop your skills and experience with a rewarding team
• Excellent salary packaging benefits, discounted onsite parking and employee benefits program
  

Who We Are and What We Stand For

Peninsula Health is the major metropolitan health service caring for a community of 300,000 people. Our Vision is to provide exceptional health and community care. To realise this vision we need people who strive for a sense of achievement, take an interest in their individual growth, enjoy innovation and looking for ways to improve and have a passion for communicating and connecting with others.

In representing Peninsula Health, we expect all employees and volunteers to reflect our values: Be the Best, Be a Role Model, Be Open and Honest, Be Compassionate and Respectful and Be Collaborative. We are One Peninsula Health.

What You Will Be Doing

• The Senior Consumer Peer Worker position has been developed specifically for people with a personal experience of mental health challenges or psychological distress and recovery to provide holistic professional support to consumers, and Consumer Peer Workers, within Peninsula Health Mental Health Services (PHMHS).
• The Senior Consumer Peer Worker will be part of the multi-disciplinary team on our Acute Adult Mental Health Inpatient Unit (2 West). 2 West is a 29 bed unit based at the Frankston Hospital which supports people experiencing an acute phase of mental illness or mental health challenges until such time that the person can be treated effectively in a community based mental health setting.
• The Senior Consumer Peer Worker will provide both direct 1:1 and group peer support on 2W, ensuring care is consumer centred, recovery oriented and trauma informed.
• The Senior Consumer Peer Worker will also provide Consumer Perspective Supervision to other Consumer Peer Workers in acute areas of the Mental Health Program (eg: PAPU) to ensure best practice and consistency aligned with the PHMHS Lived Experience Workforce framework

What You Need

We anticipate you will have:

• Personal experience of mental health challenges or psychological distress and recovery
• Experience as a lived experience worker in a mental health or alcohol and other drug setting
• Ability to use lived experience expertise to support consumers and the work of the multi-disciplinary team
• Ability to develop and maintain strong working relationships (internally and externally)

What Next

Apply Now!

If you experience any issues signing in or registering, please feel welcome to contact us - the People, Experience & Performance Team on (03) 9784 2700.

Additional Requirements

Peninsula Health is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We encourage applications from individuals from all cultural backgrounds including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. We also provide a safe and supportive workplace for people with disabilities.

To find out more about our recruitment processes, compliance obligations and to prepare your application to join our team please visit: www.peninsulahealth.org.au/careers/working-preparing-employment

This role must be fully vaccinated for Covid-19 and meet the requirements of the Peninsula Health immunisation policy.

Join Peninsula Health and help us to deliver safe, personal, effective & connected care to every person, every time.