Help Others Through Their Toughest Moments with the Power of Peer Support.

Join the Redlands Crisis Support Space in Cleveland as a Permanent Part-Time Peer Support Worker (24 hours per fortnight) and use your lived experience to support people experiencing mental health distress in a welcoming, recovery-focused environment.

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Your new role:

As a Peer Support Worker, you'll play a vital role in helping people experiencing mental health distress by drawing on your own lived experience to foster hope, connection and recovery. You'll work alongside a multidisciplinary team to provide compassionate, person-centred support by:

• Sharing your lived experience of recovery to inspire hope and resilience.
• Supporting individuals to develop strategies that reduce distress and promote wellbeing.
• Building respectful, recovery-oriented relationships with consumers, carers and colleagues.
• Connecting people with lived experience resources and recovery tools.
• Contributing to a welcoming, home-like environment as an alternative to emergency department care.
• Working collaboratively with clinical staff to deliver high-quality, person-centred care.

About you:

You're passionate about supporting others through recovery and understand the value that lived experience brings to mental health care. You will thrive in this role with:

• Personal lived/living experience of mental health and/or substance use challenges and recovery.
• A genuine commitment to recovery-oriented practice and peer support values.
• Excellent communication and relationship-building skills.
• The ability to empathise with people from diverse backgrounds while maintaining professional boundaries.
• Confidence working collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team.
• A Certificate IV in Mental Health, Mental Health Peer Work or Community Services (or a willingness to work towards one) is highly regarded.

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What we can offer you:

• Permanent part-time employment offering stability and work-life balance.
• An opportunity to make a genuine difference using your lived experience to support others.
• A supportive and inclusive team that values recovery, collaboration and continuous learning.
• Ongoing professional supervision and opportunities for career development.
• 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.

Redland Hospital:

Redland Hospital is the major health centre for adults and children in the Redlands and Brisbane's southern bayside suburbs. We provide a range of services including emergency care, primary health and minor injury care, acute and subacute medicine, general surgery, maternity and paediatric, mental specialist outpatient and mental health care.

It's an exciting time as our Redlands Coast community grows bringing a diverse range of patients & an opportunity to make a real difference in the community. With more beds, new and expanding services the Redland Hospital expansion provides a range of opportunities to pursue and build a long-term career, enjoy a supportive work environment, professional growth opportunities, and a vibrant community!

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 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.

• Application essentials - things you need to know (PDF)
  
  We are MSH - five reasons why you should join us (PDF)
  
  MS07687113_Role Description (PDF)