Perinatal Mental Health Peer Worker - Salisbury, Australia - Lives Lived Well

Lives Lived Well

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Salisbury, Australia

3 weeks ago

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Olivia Brown

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Description

Lives Lived Well provides support for people in Queensland and New South Wales who are being impacted by alcohol or drugs or problems with mental health, and now we're expanding our services to
South Australia

This newly established service will provide person-centred and whole of person, accessible and integrated primary mental health care, and suicide prevention services along a stepped care continuum to underserviced and at-risk groups in the Northern Adelaide PHN Region.

We're growing fast and building a reputation as a trusted, innovative provider, focused on clinical excellenceand we'd love you to be part of it.

If you share our belief that with the right support, people can change their lives, think in a curious and critical way, and thrive on learning and change, join us and do your best work here

Your opportunity

This position will provide care navigation, support and linking with psychosocial support services, as well as community engagement events and activities to raise awareness of the service.

The Perinatal Mental Health Peer Worker will provide clients with peer support to ensure consumers receive a high standard of evidence-informed care.

This is a part time position working 19 hours per week, and the base salary range is $67, $72, pro rata) commensurate with experience and qualifications plus salary packaging, superannuation, leave loading (17.5%), and 5 additional days of paid wellbeing leave.

Responsibilities will also include, but not limited to:

Facilitate and co-facilitate programs and groups for parents with perinatal mental health challenges.
Provide a range of nonclinical communitybased supports to individuals to support achieving their recovery goals.
Work as part of a multidisciplinary team to identify clients who may benefit from peer support
Use your own lived experience to purposefully support the recovery of others.
The Peer Worker also has a role in educating staff and consumers, reducing stigma and assisting the service to work in partnership with people with perinatal mental illness and their families.

What you'll bring

To succeed in this role, there are some essentials you'll need:

Certificate IV in Mental Health or Mental Health Cert IV Peer Work (or working towards),
Minimum two (2) years' experience in peer work practice
Have lived or living experience of mental health challenges in the perinatal period.
An understanding of work with families and children (011yo) with complex needs
Experience in providing informal or nonclinical mental health support
Excellent communication and collaboration skills
Demonstrated ability to maintain clear boundaries between own lived experience and the experience of clients.
Demonstrated ability for selfcare and selfcompassion.
Demonstrated ability to problem solve and negotiate practical outcomes
Excellent organisational and time management skills with the ability to proactively prioritise, multitask and work flexibly

While not essential, we'd also love you to have:

Local knowledge of services
Previous experience working in family and or mental health services

What matters most is that you'll live and breathe our values, which means:

You are humble, human and full of hope.
You show up and share.
You ask: Why not? And what's next?
You leave a positive wake.

Why? We believe that through these values, we do our best work - for each other, for clients, and for the communities we work in.

And it's a promise we make to you about the kind of experience you will have working for us.

Why work for Lives Lived Well?
Well, it's about people, purpose, impact and growth.

You'll love working with talented people who share our values. Our services and treatments are as diverse as the communities we work in. We've grown signi?cantly in the past few years, with no plans of slowing down.

So, what does that mean for you? A real opportunity to go further

You'll grow as a person and as a professional, extending your knowledge and skills beyond the norm.
You'll be trusted with autonomy in a supportive, respectful environment.
You'll make a lasting impact on clients, the community and an organisation that cares as much as you.

But it's more than that.

You'll join a curious organisation that thinks differently and seeks new ways. We look to the evidence. We explore new ideas.

When we reach "better", we ask, "What's next?" Which means you'll need to be comfortable with change - you'll enjoy variety, the agility, and the opportunity to achieve more, faster.

While you support others, we'll support you with some great bene?ts, including:

An extra five paid leave days per year to support your wellbeing and work-life balance.
Salary packaging to increase your takehome pay
Paid parental leave of 8 weeks.
Regular clinical supervision, case conferencing and debrie?ngs.
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