• Join a supportive and inclusive team and service who value your contribution
• Leadership opportunity to develop your peer worker skills in a specialist service
• Permanent Part Time – 56 hours per fortnight 

About the facility

Bellarine community health centre is one of five community centre’s at Barwon Health. A multidisciplinary team, you will be working with podiatrists, physiotherapist, psychologists, social workers, nutritionists, speech pathologists, community health nurses and occupational therapists. Bellarine Community centre also provides care for clients requiring Hospital in the Home, Post-Acute and Palliative care.

About you

• Trained in the delivery of a peer led approach to service delivery 
• Lived experience of mental illness (distress)  
• Lived experience of engagement with public mental health services
• Lived experience of Recovery and capacity to reflect on personal recovery processes
• Previous experience as a peer worker and/or senior peer worker
• Deep knowledge of peer support principles

About the role

• As guided by the Lived Experience Discipline Lead and the Operational Manager of the Bellarine Community Centre, the Senior Consumer Peer Worker will:
• Provide individual and peer support to people with a lived experience of mental distress who access therapy services
• Work collaboratively with therapists and peer workers to develop effective peer supports
• Provide supervisory input to peer workers and lead peer program development
• This position plays a vital role in supporting the ongoing development of peer work, voice of lived experience in the tertiary mental health system, and integration within clinical services.

Barwon Health staff benefits

• EBA leave entitlements and the opportunity to purchase additional leave
• Flexible working arrangements
• Professional Development
• Doorstep to the Great Ocean Road, Bellarine Peninsula and the Surf Coast
• Access to employee wellness facility
• Attractive salary packaging benefits!
• Living Expenses capped at $9,010 and includes repayments on mortgages, credit cards, personal loans and rental payments
• Meal Entertainment & Accommodation capped at $2,650 and includes food and drink consumed in a social or entertainment settings and some accommodation expenditure

Diversity and Inclusion

At Barwon Health we are committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce. We embrace diverse life experiences and the perspectives of our people, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, religion, cultural background, disability, or sexual orientation. If we can assist you with any reasonable adjustments in order to submit your application for this role, please contact the Mental Health Recruitment via email at mentalhealth.recruitment@barwonhealth.org.au  

We are strongly committed to the safety and wellbeing of all children and young people. Click here for further information on the Victorian Government’s Child Safe Standards: About Child Safe Standards | Victorian Government (www.vic.gov.au)  Applicants for this role must be fully vaccinated for Covid-19 and influenza and meet the requirements of the Barwon Health immunisation policy.

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