Peer Practice Leader – Ipswich

For all people in Australia living with mental health and wellbeing challenges to live a life that is meaningful to them.

Position details

• Part Time, Permanent (FTE 0.8).
• Classification: SCHADS Level 5 with a salary range of $97,476 – $101,883 per annum (pro rata) + Superannuation.
• Salary packaging arrangements (increasing your take home income pay!)
• Generous above-award pay and entitlements, Flexible Work Arrangements.
• Location: Living and Learning Centre, Ipswich QLD.

About Neami National

We’re Neami. We’re big believers in everyone having the opportunity to live a full life – and we give our all to support people to achieve wellbeing and mental health outcomes that matter to them.

For some people, this means having a stronger sense of self. For others, it may mean nurturing relationships or building the confidence to tackle tomorrow. Everyone has different life goals, and at Neami, we walk alongside people to help improve their quality of life on their terms.

We’re proud to support 30,000+ people living with mental health challenges each year across Australia and offer services over 40 different Indigenous lands. These services include mental health and wellbeing, housing and homelessness, and suicide prevention.

Values

Together with our vision and purpose, our values define who we are and guide the way we operate. They are fundamental to our identity, and we align all our actions with them.

• Connecting
• Collaborating
• Learning
• Belonging

About your new role

The Peer Practice Leader must have a lived experience of mental illness and a rich understanding of their own processes of recovery. They must be willing to purposefully use their own story to help others further their own understanding of recovery. The Peer Practice Leader will provide psychosocial peer support to consumer accessing our service in alignment with the collaborative relational practice. They will work collaboratively with consumer on identifying their recovery goals. They will also facilitate a variety of our psychosocial group programs.

The Peer Practice Leader will work in a multidisciplinary team with clinicians, and peer wellbeing coaches within the Living and learning Centre. They will show strong leadership skills amongst the team and provide support and professional development sessions and guidance to peer wellbeing coaches. The Peer Practice leader will report to the Clinical service manager and work collaboratively with the clinical lead to look at ways the service may improve its practice, drawing on their peer practice framework. As with other Neami staff, Peer Practice Leaders have access to a tailored training program and to regular opportunities to reflect upon their practice.

What will Neami offer?

• Generous leave entitlements including paid parental leave, Gratis Leave and Wellness leave.
• Professional development through regular practice development sessions and coaching with your supervisor.
• Ongoing extensive in-house Learning and Development programs to encourage learning and skill-building.
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) through TELUS – providing holistic health and wellness supports and resources to Neami staff and their immediate family.
• Flexible work arrangements are available for maintaining your work-life balance.

What you will bring to the role

Personal lived/living experience of recovery as a family, friend or carer. Your recovery experience may be related to mental health, suicidal crisis, drugs and alcohol use of trauma.

Essential:

• Willingness to identify or be identified by others as a professional with lived experience of recovery.
• Willingness to share and draw on lived experience purposefully in the role to instil confidence and hope in others about the journey of recovery.
• A rich understanding of your own processes of recovery and an ability to articulate learning outcomes from recovery processes.
• Demonstrated practice in performing as a leader.

Desirable:

• Formal tertiary qualification in Peer Work in Mental Health or related field.
• Previous work experience in a peer worker role, and knowledge of the community sector.
• Computer literate.
• Demonstrated experience in facilitating groups, including the ability to prioritise different needs within a group.

What the role requires

• National Criminal History Check (police check) – disclosable outcomes considered.
• Current Working with Children Check – required before commencement of work.
• Current Australian drivers licence and access to a car.
• Australian working rights.

How to Apply

To apply for this position, please:

• Click Apply Now where you will need to create a username and password.
• Upload your resume and cover letter.

When applying for this position, you are asked to tell us about your previous work experience, your suitability for this role and your answers to any target questions (where asked).

Please include in your application how you would prefer to be contacted (whether via email, text or phone call).

If you have any further questions not addressed in the job advertisement or position description, or if you require any adjustments to participate in the recruitment process, please contact: Boyd Middleton, Service Manager at [email protected] using the subject line: Peer Practice Leader – Ipswich enquiry via EthicalJobs.

If you are excited about this role, but only meet some of the requirements, we encourage you to call or email us to talk about this opportunity. We’re passionate about creating opportunities and supporting professional development.

If your application is shortlisted:

• We may invite you to have an informal phone conversation to discuss the role and get to know more about your experience and interest and answer your questions.
• We may invite you to an interview (which may be in person or conducted online via Microsoft Teams) with up to three panel members from Neami.

Be Yourself – Neami values and celebrates diversity including multidisciplinary teams and the unique backgrounds, experiences and contributions that each person brings to our community. First Nations people, those identifying as LGBTQIA+, people with disabilities and culturally and linguistically diverse people are encouraged to apply. Our aim is to createa workforce that is accessible, inclusive and reflects the community in which we live.

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