Use Your Lived Experience to Support Community Recovery!

Bring your lived experience to a team dedicated to supporting individuals and communities recovering from disaster. As an Advanced Peer Worker with Metro South Addiction and Mental Health Services, you’ll use your personal recovery journey to inspire hope, strengthen resilience, and build community connections across the region!

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About your role

In this rewarding role, you'll be part of the Disaster Flood Team working across Metro South Addiction and Mental Health Services to promote recovery, resilience, and wellbeing following disaster events. 

Key responsibilities include:

• Sharing your lived experience to inspire hope and model recovery strategies.
• Supporting individuals, families, and communities to build resilience and connect with services.
• Delivering education and training to enhance understanding of recovery frameworks.
• Working collaboratively with service providers, community groups, and emergency services.
• Assisting in the development of community resilience workshops and recovery initiatives.
• Promoting inclusion, respect, and person-centred approaches across all interactions.

About you

You are someone with a strong personal recovery foundation who is passionate about supporting others through authentic connection and hope. 

You will also have:

• Experience providing peer support in mental health or community settings.
• The ability to engage effectively with people from diverse backgrounds.
• Strong communication, teamwork, and advocacy skills.
• Knowledge of recovery-oriented practice and self-care principles.
• A willingness to travel across Metro South Health's catchment area as needed.
• Certificate IV in Mental Health Peer Work or Community Services or willingness to obtain is highly desirable.

Under S25 of the Anti-Discrimination Act 1991, there is a genuine occupational requirement for the incumbent to have a personal lived/living experience of mental health challenges and/or substance use challenges.

What we can offer you:

• We are renowned for teaching and research excellence with strong relations with Queensland's leading tertiary institutions.
• We want to empower you to build a long-term career, with countless opportunities to learn and grow, no matter your role
• You'll have all the benefits of working for Queensland's world-class public health system including generous leave entitlements, attractive salary and remuneration packages, salary packaging and access to relevant professional development allowances and/or leave, study and research assistance, corporate discounts and employee wellness programs.

Metro South Addiction and Mental Health Services:

Metro South Addiction and Mental Health Services provide inpatient, hospital-based and community mental health and community alcohol and drug services for all age groups across a number of campuses.

We embrace a forward looking, progressive approach and work collaboratively with all stakeholders in order to achieve expected outcomes. A clear and strong consumer and carer focus is promoted with our vision being to provide our community excellence in consumer centred, integrated care across the continuum of addiction (alcohol and drug) and mental health services.

INTEGRITY | COMPASSION | ACCOUNTABILITY | RESPECT | ENGAGEMENT | EXCELLENCE

Our values were created by employees for employees to shape our culture and inspire positive interactions in the workplace. Diversity of ideas, skills, traditions, and customs is celebrated as one of our greatest strengths. Having a workforce that reflects and understands the needs and expectations of our community is important to delivering safe, kinder, and more inclusive care.

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 Metro South Health:

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

We are bold, innovative, collaborative, inspiring. We save lives, change lives, and make the world a better place. We are part of and proud of the community we serve.

We are better together.

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.

• MS12669168 Role Description (PDF)
  
  Application essentials - things you need to know (PDF)
  
  We are MSH - five reasons why you should join us (PDF)