Job Summary
Alfred Health
- Applications close:
- Job posted on: 14th Sep 2018
Youth Peer Support Worker - headspace YEPP
Alfred Health
Job description
Alfred Health
Alfred Health is a leader in healthcare delivery, improvement, research and education. We are the main provider of health services to people living in the inner southeast suburbs of Melbourne, from ambulatory to inpatient and home and community-based services.
- Part-time up to 8 days/fortnight to June 30, 2019
- This position will be based in Bentleigh or Frankston with some travel required between locations.
About us
The headspace YEPP program was established in the south-east of Melbourne. We are seeking to appoint several youth peer workers to this program to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team and to bring their unique insight into mental health challenges and what makes recovery possible. This program aims to intervene early with young people who have unusual sensory experiences and/or beliefs and their families and supporters. The service builds on strengths and resilience, uses the wisdom of lived experience and fosters hope, potential, and recovery.
"Peer support is a system of giving and receiving help founded on key principles of respect, shared responsibility, and mutual agreement of what is helpful. Peer support is not based on psychiatric models and diagnostic criteria. It is about understanding another's situation empathically through the shared experience of emotional and psychological pain. When people find affiliation with others they feel are 'like' them, they feel a connection. This connection, or affiliation, is a deep, holistic understanding based on mutual experience where people are able to 'be' with each other without the constraints of traditional (expert/patient) relationships." (Mead, 2001)
We are seeking experienced youth peer workers who have a desire to support others to self-direct their recovery.
In this role you will:
- Utilise your lived experience of mental health challenges and recovery to provide specialist services to young people
- Apply peer work principles and practice with young people at risk of or experiencing early psychosis
- Develop rapport and trusting relationships with young people
- Promote choice and self-determination to seek or maintain socially valued roles and connections in their local communities
- Assist young people to build networks and supports which will help them once they have exited the service
- Work in partnership with clinical services and other key stakeholders
You will have:
Essential
- Lived experience of mental health challenges and recovery and the ability to use this to inform your work
- Lived experience of utilising mental health services in your own recovery
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
Desired
- Training, qualifications or professional development in the area of peer work, group facilitation and recovery-oriented practice
- Tertiary qualifications in Mental Health, Psychology, AOD or other health-related field
- Group facilitation skills
We will provide the following:
- Relevant training (Peer Support, group facilitation, Open Dialogue)
- Regular peer supervision and line management supervision
- Support from the Youth Peer team dedicated to promoting the voice of lived experience within headspace YEPP
We offer a supported, multi-disciplinary team and seek someone for this role who is capable of developing authentic, mutual peer-to-peer relationships with young people in our service.
How to apply
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Job Summary
Alfred Health
- Applications close:
- Job posted on: 14th Sep 2018