An exciting opportunity exists for a Team Leader Peer Workforce to join our Mental Health & Specialised Services team. The Peer Workforce Team Leader provides leadership to the Sunshine Coast Hospital and Health Service (Peer) Workforce within Mental Health and Specialised Services, partnering and collaborating to deliver strategies that enhance the capacity to respond to mental health issues and to provide initiatives that promote social inclusion and a recovery focussed service. Crisis support spaces are an alternative to the emergency department for people experiencing mental health crisis. Crisis Support Spaces provide a combination of peer and clinical support in a home-like environment near an existing ED. They seek to reduce unnecessary ED stays while also improving people’s experience of crisis care.

Job details

Sunshine Coast Health is in southeast Queensland and extends through the coastal and hinterland areas from Caloundra in the south and Gympie in the north. 

Sunshine Coast Health is a values-based organisation. We are committed to the maintenance of a culture in which we treat our colleagues with respect as we do our patients, consumers and the community. We respect, protect and promote human rights in our decision-making and actions.

Reporting to the Director Partnerships and Specialised Services, the Team Leader Peer Workforce role requires demonstrated knowledge of contemporary Peer Work practices to lead the Lived Experience (Peer) workforce; ability to liaise and consult with stakeholders and provide effective engagement; and the skills to manage a diverse consumer/carer identified workforce through operational and professional supervision.

Key Responsibilities include:

• Provide high-level advice to the Director of Partnership and Specialised Services, senior management, and other stakeholders on Mental health Lived Experience (Peer) support activities, including strategies to meet service needs and community expectations as well as compliance with all procedures, organisational policies, regulations, and standards.
• Lead and manage Lived Experience (Peer) staff members by fostering and committing to safety and quality in the delivery of health care by maintaining and evaluating safety and quality practices and initiatives, including performance appraisals, and developing the workforce as per local, state, and national strategies and frameworks.
• Engage and collaborate with stakeholders to identify improvement opportunities and ensure a Lived Experience perspective is incorporated into decision making to influence the planning, service delivery, evaluation, research partnerships and outcomes for consumers, carers, and the community.
• Contribute to research and development strategies that enhance Sunshine Coast MHSS capacity to respond to mental health issues, overseeing initiatives that promote social inclusion and a recovery-focused service.

Salary between $4651.70 - $4982.80 p.f, employer contribution to superannuation (up to 12.75%) and annual leave loading (17.5%) (A06) (Temporary position available for three months with possibility of extension). Applications will remain current for the duration of the vacancy. Please note: only applications from candidates will be accepted (applications that may result in an agency fee will not be considered).

Under s25 of the Anti-Discrimination Act 1991, there is a genuine occupational requirement for the incumbent to be a person with lived experience of mental ill-health, service use and recovery (identifies as a mental health consumer, carer, or both)

Why work for us?

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 Queensland Health 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.
We are committed to providing a diverse and inclusive workplace for our people and our community. We encourage people of all genders, races, ages and abilities to apply for roles within our Health Service.
You can find out more about why it's so great to work at Sunshine Coast here: https://www.health.qld.gov.au/sunshinecoast/careers

As a Sunshine Coast Health employee, you will receive competitive remuneration and have access to:
• A wellness program;
• Generous superannuation;
• Flexible work arrangements;
• Career training and development; and
• Salary packaging.

Check out the latest updates here:
https://www.sunshinecoast.health.qld.gov.au/ 

Further information

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

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Documents

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

• SC649547_RD (PDF, 436KB)
  Role Description
  
  Information for Applicants, SCHHS (PDF, 1.79MB)
  Information Package for Applicants