Metro South Addiction and Mental Health Services are looking for Peer Worker to join their team. Peer Workers provide personalised peer support and practical assistance to individuals, fostering hope and the belief that recovery is possible. Drawing upon personal lived experience with mental health challenges, substance use, or suicidality, this role involves sharing one's recovery journey and experience of accessing services, modelling effective strategies, providing formal peer support to individuals to develop individualised recovery strategies, life skills and knowledge to build resilience for mental and physical healthcare needs.

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We are Metro South Health

We are the major public healthcare provider for Brisbane's south side, Logan, Redlands and the Scenic Rim. We operate five major hospitals and a range of community, specialty and state-wide healthcare services. We are renowned for teaching and research excellence.

We are truly dedicated people who care about our community. We come to work to make a difference. We save lives, changes lives and make the world a better place. We overcome the many challenges that come our way by going above and beyond and achieve the best possible outcomes by working together. We are bold, innovative, collaborative, inspiring.

We recognise our strength comes from the diversity of our people and so we encourage people of all genders, ethnicities, ages, abilities, languages, sexual orientation and family responsibilities to apply.

We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace for our people and our community.

We are part of and proud of the community we serve. We are better together.

Join us at Metro South Health and be part of a world-class, dynamic and growing health service that embraces technology, excellence in health care, teaching, research and empowering our people to be the best in serving our community.

About the Role

• Serve as a positive role model to consumers and support them to identify their own achievable and meaningful recovery goals.
• Provide direct peer support to consumers by engaging in individual and group peer support to make positive changes towards recovery by identifying strengths and goals and participating in planning to achieve these, i.e. recovery plans.
• Be an effective and collaborative member of the CCU multidisciplinary team and work within professional boundaries in accordance with Queensland Health Lived Experience (Peer) Workforce Framework, to provide safe and quality practices as part of an integrated model of care.
• Positively promote and demonstrate individual recovery, sharing personal lived/living experience (when appropriate) of managing mental health issues and/or substance use challenges.

This is an identified vacancy with a genuine occupational requirement for the position to be filled by a candidate who has personal lived / living experience of mental health and / or substance use issues and recovery. Candidates not meeting this criteria will not be considered.

Find out about the role in more detail and how to apply in the attached Role Description.

Our values of Integrity, Compassion, Accountability, Respect, Engagement and Excellence, shape our culture within Metro South Health. Our values guide our day-to-day decision making and are fundamental to what we care about as a health service, how we behave, how we interact with each other and provide care to the many patients who come through our doors every day.

We offer rewarding career opportunities across a wide range of clinical and non-clinical areas across our health service and pride ourselves on providing a work environment that is safe, satisfying, flexible, and promotes a healthy work-life balance.

As a Metro South employee, you will benefit from a higher than standard employer contribution to Superannuation of up to 12.75%, access to salary packaging, flexible working arrangements and competitive salary rates with annual incremental increases.

You can find out more about why it's so great to work at Metro South here: www.metrosouth.health.qld.gov.au/join-our-team.

Further information

We are committed to building inclusive cultures in the Queensland public sector that respect and promote human rights and diversity.

Applicants are encouraged to apply online; please review the Role Description for more information on application process requirements. Agency referrals will not be accepted for this position.

Documents

Before applying for this vacancy please ensure you read the documents below.

• Application essentials - things you need to know (PDF, 691KB)
  Information Package for Applicants
  
  We are MSH - five reasons why you should join us (PDF, 415KB)
  Information Package for Applicants
  
  MS05636270 RD (PDF, 396KB)
  Role Description