Peer Worker

The Peer Worker plays a key role in the Mental Health Integrated Complex Care (MHICC) Program. Drawing on lived experience, you will support consumers in their mental health recovery journey within the program.

You will collaborate with a multidisciplinary team to provide individualised, recovery-focused care while also mentoring other peer workers across our mental health programs.

What sets us apart?

At Better Health Network (BHN), we prioritise holistic and consumer-centred care, offering comprehensive health services across a range of disciplines. Our MHICC Program is designed to provide flexible, timely, and accessible support for individuals with severe mental illness and complex needs. Join a passionate team committed to promoting mental health recovery and the value of lived experience.

Responsibilities

• Connect with Consumers: Engage with consumers by sharing mental health lived experiences to promote hope, model recovery, de-stigmatise mental health and substance use issues, and foster help-seeking behaviours.
• Caseload Management and Direct Support: Maintain a caseload and provide individualied peer support to consumers in the MHICC program, including participating in care reviews, planning, risk assessment, and safety planning.
• Collaborative Care Planning: Work with consumers, their families, and multidisciplinary teams to develop and implement recovery-oriented care plans that use a strengths-based approach.
• Mentoring and Supervision: Facilitate co-reflection sessions and provide one-on-one peer supervision to other mental health peer workers across the organisation’s mental health programs.
• Record Keeping and Documentation: Develop and maintain accurate and timely records of consumer health status and progress using the organisation’s IT systems, ensuring comprehensive documentation.

About you

• Professional qualification in lived experience/peer work, welfare, mental health, or equivalent.
• Reflective and emotionally intelligent team player.
• Aligned with Better Health’s values and adaptable to change.
• Consumer-focused with a responsive working style.
• Personal lived experience and understanding of mental health illness.
• 3+ years of experience in hospital and/or community mental health.
• Experience mentoring and supporting peer workers.
• Ability to address social determinants of health for mental health consumers.

BHN Benefits

• Work-Life Balance: Enjoy standard annual leave with the option for additional purchased leave.
• Professional Development: Opportunities for growth through training and mentoring.
• Supportive Environment: Join a team that values collaboration and the lived experience perspective.
• Salary Packaging: Take advantage of attractive NFP salary packaging options.
• Wellbeing Support: Access to our Employee Assistance Program for you and your partner.

About the team

The MHICC team at BHN is dedicated to providing high-quality mental health care through a consumer-centred approach. We believe in the power of lived experience and work together to create an inclusive and supportive environment for both our team members and the consumers we serve. Join us in making a meaningful impact in the lives of individuals with complex mental health needs.

About BHN

Better Health Network (BHN) encompasses more than 22 locations and has over 800 staff work in multi-disciplinary teams to deliver health and disability outcomes. BHN is a responsive and agile community health service, providing a wide range of healthcare, social support, disability, and welfare services for all members of the community.

BHN provides services spanning all periods of life including specialist childhood, youth, and aged care services. In achieving its vision of health and wellbeing for all, BHN is guided by our distinct service principles which include working with people and communities to achieve their health goals, understanding the context in which people live their lives, providing friendly, affordable, and holistic service.

Apply Now!

If this role is the one you’ve been looking for click Apply Now. Interviews will be held immediately on shortlisting.

For information about the role and position description, please contact Carrie Weiss, Program Lead MHICC, UPSTART & Worksafe at [email protected], using the subject line: Peer Worker enquiry via EthicalJobs.

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Please note that prior to any commencement of employment, pre-employment checks must be complete. These will include reference checking, a national criminal history and right to work check, proof of vaccinations and a working with children check. Better Health Network is an equal opportunity employer. We encourage applications from individuals of diverse backgrounds, including those from the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, Culturally and Linguistically Diverse, and LGBTI+ communities.