Metro South Addiction and Mental Health Services (MSAMHS) are looking for an Advanced Peer Worker (Identified - Lived Experience) to join their team. MSAMHS provide inpatient, hospital-based and community mental health and community alcohol and drug services for all age groups across a number of campuses. The successful candidate will positively promote and demonstrate individual recovery and be open to appropriately sharing your personal lived/living experience of recovery, mental health and/or substance use challenges.

Job details

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

• Use your lived/living experience of challenges with your own mental health, substance use or suicidality to model recovery strategies and provide formalized peer support to consumers currently accessing support in an adult inpatient mental health ward setting.
• To support consumers staying in an adult inpatient, short stay unit using trauma informed care and a person-centred approach.
• In conjunction with the multi-disciplinary team, develop and run Peer lead groups and provide consumers with support in their recovery planning.
• Provide consumers with education, information and support from personal experience of recovery and of utilizing mental health services and non-government agencies within an inpatient setting.

This is an identified vacancy with a genuine occupational requirement for the position to be filled by a candidate who has a personal lived/living experience of mental health challenges and/or substance use challenges. 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: https://www.metrosouth.health.qld.gov.au/careers

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
  
  MS06642292 RD (PDF, 377KB)
  Role Description