About the role
Permanent Part Time, 38 hours per fortnight opportunity to The Advanced Carer Peer Worker (ACPW) Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital (RBWH) Mental Health Hospital in the Home (MH–HITH) will work with families and carers of people admitted to the RBWH MH-HITH. The ACPW will use their lived experience as a carer of a person with mental illness and recovery to facilitate the development, planning and delivery of support to families and carers of people admitted to the RBWH MH-HITH. The ACPW will use their lived experience as a carer of a person with mental illness and recovery, to model strategies to families and carers of people admitted to the RBWH MH-HITH. The ACPW will use their lived experience as a carer of a person with mental illness and recovery to model strategies that enable the RBWH MH-HITH multidisciplinary team to develop a better understanding to support families and carers to achieve the best outcomes for people admitted to RBWH MH-HITH. The ACPW will work in collaboration with the RBWH MH-HITH multidisciplinary team to facilitate comprehensive assessment, treatment, and care in the context of family and carer support from a lived experience perspective.
The ACPW will provide direct support to families and carers of people presenting in mental health crisis whilst admitted to the RBWH MH-HITH.
About you
Our ideal candidate will be someone who can carry out the following key accountabilities in accordance with the Metro North Health's values:
1. Ensure people admitted to RBWH MH HITH, families, carers, and other staff are treated fairly and with mutual respect and understanding, regardless of cultural, religious, ethnic and linguistic background.
2. Ability to work autonomously and as part of a multidisciplinary team, complementing existing services to assist families and carers of people admitted to RWBH MH HITH on their recovery journey.
3. Connect with families and carers of people admitted to RBWH MH HITH, providing a positive example of family and carer engagement and support, sharing personal experience (when appropriate) of being a carer for someone managing mental health challenges and broader positive strategies of family and carer support, mental health recovery and wellbeing.
4. Support families and carers of people admitted to RBWH MH HITH to support their loved one to make positive changes towards recovery by identifying strengths and goals and participate in planning to achieve these i.e. recovery plans and safety planning.
Health Equity
It is expected that all Metro North Health staff, including the incumbent of this role as a valuable member of the Metro North workforce, contribute to the health equity agenda and meet the intent of supporting the defined six actions that specifically meet the needs of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people within the National Safety and Quality Health Service Standards (NSQHS), by actively supporting the elimination of racial discrimination and institutional racism; supporting increased access to health care; influencing the social, cultural and economic determinants of health; supporting the delivery of sustainable, culturally safe and responsive health services; and recognise the importance of working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, communities and organisations to design, deliver, monitor and review the health and support services we provide.
Benefits when working for us
5. Rewarding career and development opportunities across a wide range of clinical and non-clinical areas
6. Value driven organisation which provides a work environment that is safe, satisfying, flexible, and promotes a healthy work-life balance
7. Flexible working arrangements and competitive salary rates with annual incremental increases
8. Benefit from a higher than standard employer contribution to Superannuation of up to 12.75% and access to salary packaging