Job description
- Experience on the job training at a range of support services whilst you study to deliver recovery-orientated services to clients with mental ill health
- Fixed Term, Part Time role tendersglobal.net 22.8 hours per week (including a paid study day), 10-months
- Bendigo Location
- Up to $15,000 relocation grant available for eligible candidates under the scheme administered by the Rural Workforce Agency Victoria (RWAV)
Mind strongly encourages applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, people with a lived and living experience of mental distress and recovery, and applicants from all cultures, genders, sexualities, bodies, abilities, spiritualties, ages and backgrounds.
Mind Australia is one of the country’s leading community-managed specialist mental health service providers with a range of residential, mobile outreach, centre based and online services. Mind has been supporting people experiencing mental health and wellbeing challenges to find help, hope and purpose in their lives for more than 45 years.
We provide practical and motivational support that helps people to develop the skills they need to move on, thrive and improve the quality of their lives. It’s an approach to mental health and wellbeing that looks at the whole person in the context of their daily life. Mind is committed to diversity and social inclusion.
About the role
The Lived Experience Peer Cadet Program is an initiative informed by the findings of the Royal Commission into Victoria’s Mental Health system. The recommendations included improving pathways into the lived experience workforce, offering employment opportunities and providing supportive, structured learning environments. non-government community mental health service organisations will provide opportunities for people with lived or living experience of mental ill health to gain paid employment whilst undertaking the Certificate IV in Mental Health – Peer Work.
The Lived Experience Peer Cadet Program offers Peer Cadets a paid cadetship over a fixed period of time. Peer Cadets will be encouraged to use their personal insights to help consumers and supported to develop their knowledge, skills and confidence in a structured and supported environment. Throughout their cadetship employees will receive supervision, training and reflective practice opportunities that are discipline specific.
We are seeking a resilient, self-motivated Peer Cadet for a 10-month Fixed Term, Part Time (22.8 hours per week) opportunity to experience working in a range of services in the Bendigo area in services including The Mental Health and Wellbeing Locals and the adult Prevention and Recovery Centre. You will be supported to deliver personalised support services and work collaboratively with clients to achieve their recovery goals through one-to-one mutual support, shared supports, workshops and group work facilitation to enhance recovery and personal growth.
This role is open to all with a lived/living experience of mental health challenges, using services and/or distress.
To be eligible
To be eligible, applicants must be currently undertaking the Certificate IV in Mental Health Peer Work or enrolled to begin the course at the start of the cadetship period and meet the selection criteria defined by participating organisations.
Whilst the responsibility lies on the applicant to ensure enrolment, assistance with enrolment may be possible for the successful candidate.
Online information sessions
Understanding more about what peer work is, and what the Peer Cadet Program involves, can help you make sure this is the right opportunity for you. Applicants must watch a pre-recorded session before applying.
Recorded information session
To receive a link to a recorded session please register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/2024-25-peer-cadet-program-recorded-information-session-tickets-914293615817?aff=oddtdtcreator
Further information and will be available on the department of Health website Lived Experience Peer Cadet Program tendersglobal.net health.vic.gov.au
Questions about the program can be emailed to [email protected].
If you have trouble access the pre-recorded sessions, please email [email protected]
Key responsibilities
- Demonstrate knowledge and abilities gained from both an individuals lived/living experiences, collective impacts and Lived Expertise, and be able to support the development of these approaches across the reach of Mind’s work
- Work in a way that is informed by Mind’s Lived Experience Strategy, Peer Work Framework and Model of Peer Work to guide your work.
- Support your team to understand and deliver services and approaches that are consistent with recovery-oriented practice from a peer/Lived Experience perspective.
- Work as part of a multidisciplinary team offering specialised psychosocial support.
- Collaborate with a range of services and the community to ensure a co-ordinated, integrated response to client’s recovery goals.
What you’ll bring
- Must be currently undertaking Certificate IV in Mental Health Peer Work
- Intentional Peer Support (IPS) and/or Alt2Su training desirable but not mandatory
- Ability to draw on Mind’s Peer Work Framework and Model of Peer Work to guide your work
- Experience in Community Services, Mental Health, Disability, Social Welfare, Housing, Healthcare or Government sectors is desirable.
- Demonstrated understanding of available community services, networks and supports is desirable.
Benefits
- Salary packaging up to $15,899 p.a. allows you to allocate a portion of your pre-tax income to cover living expenses (e.g. rent, mortgage, child care, car leasing expenses etc.)
- Option to access Meal and Entertainment allowance up to $2,650 p.a. via Salary Packaging.
- Eligible candidates may have access to incentive payments up to $15,000 for relocation expenses, childcare, or professional development costs, as part of the new Regional Mental Health workforce Grants Program administered by the Rural Workforce Agency Victoria (RWAV).
- Professional development through internal training, workshops, regular supervision and co-reflection sessions
Interested?
To obtain a position description and apply online click Apply Now to visit Mind Careers – reference number 495453. Please contact the person below if you require more information.
Tim McGregor, Lived Experience Project Lead
The successful applicant is required to complete comprehensive reference and background checking prior to employment, including a Working with Children Check and NDIS Workers Screening Check.