With lived experience of mental ill health; apply your unique specialist lens to provide recovery services to youth.
Permanent part time role | 26.6 hours per week
Box Hill Location
Mind strongly encourages applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, people with a lived experience of mental ill health and recovery, and applicants from all cultures, genders, sexualities, bodies, abilities, spiritualities, ages and backgrounds.
Mind Australia is one of the country’s leading community-managed specialist mental health service providers with a range of residential, mobile outreach, centre-based and online services. Mind has been supporting people experiencing mental health and wellbeing challenges to find help, hope, and purpose in their lives for more than 45 years.
We provide practical and motivational support that helps people to develop the skills they need to move on, thrive, and improve the quality of their lives. It’s an approach to mental health and wellbeing that looks at the whole person in the context of their daily life. Mind is committed to diversity and social inclusion.
About the role
headspace in partnership with Mind aims to promote and facilitate improvements in the mental health, social wellbeing, and economic participation of young people aged 12-25 years residing in the Northern Region of Melbourne. Services in this youth-friendly space are delivered across four core streams - physical and sexual health, mental health, alcohol and other drugs (AOD), and educational and vocational services to improve access for young people to mental health programs as well as ensuring better co-ordination between service providers.
We are seeking a compassionate Peer Practitioner for a permanent part-time opportunity (26.6 hours per week) in the Box Hill area. You will utilise your lived experience of mental ill health and recovery to provide services to young people, families, friends, and carers. In this role, you will be the champion of co-design and co-production in all aspects of the service, work with young people to define their own outcomes, and deliver personalised support services and recovery-oriented care to young people living with mental ill health in the community.
Key responsibilities
* Willingness to utilise and disclose your own lived experience of mental ill health and recovery in an appropriate and purposeful manner to support, empower, bring hope, and support the recovery of young people.
* Provide direct support to young people and their families and friends by supporting them through a staged approach to recovery.
* Support the team to understand and deliver services that are consistent with recovery-oriented practice from a peer/lived experience perspective.
* Collaborate with a range of services and the community to ensure a co-ordinated, integrated response to client’s recovery goals.
What you’ll bring
* Tertiary qualifications (minimum Certificate IV) in Mental Health, Peer Work, Psychology, Social Work, Occupational Therapy, or other health-related field as designated by Mind.
* Proven ability to plan and prioritise to meet customer service delivery requirements.
* Excellent customer service skills.
* Demonstrated ability to work within a multi-disciplinary team.
* Completion of Intentional Peer Support Core and/or Advanced Training is desirable but not required.
* Mandarin, Cantonese, and/or other Asian language skills are highly regarded.
Benefits
* Salary packaging up to $15,899 p.a. allows you to allocate a portion of your pre-tax income to cover living expenses (e.g. rent, mortgage, child-care, car leasing expenses, etc.).
* Option to access Meal and Entertainment allowance up to $2,650 p.a. via Salary Packaging.
* Generous leave entitlements including 8 weeks paid parental leave, 17.5% annual leave loading, and Monthly Accumulated Day off (Full-time employees).
* Fitness Passport - Access to our corporate health and fitness program, providing you and family with access to a wide choice of fitness facilities.
Interested?
To apply visit Mind Careers - reference number 495734. Online applications must be submitted by 11pm Wednesday 13 of November 2024. Please contact the person below for more information.
Bowen Guan – Service Manager
Bowen.Guan@mindaustralia.org.au
We are committed to making reasonable adjustments to provide a positive, barrier-free recruitment process. If you require any support or reasonable adjustments to complete your application, please contact us at hr@mindaustralia.org.au
Position Description
PD Peer Practitioner (headspace Boxhill) 20241030.pdf
The successful applicant is required to complete comprehensive reference and background checking prior to employment, including a Working with Children Check and NDIS Workers Screening Check.
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