Alfred Health

Alfred Health is a leader in health care 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.

Peer Worker - Consumer - Aged

• Permanent Part Time: 64 Hours (4 days/wk)
• Located at Caulfield Hospital
• LIVED EXPERIENCE WORKER LEVEL 2 ($57k - $61k)
• Regular supervision and professional development opportunities

About the team

Alfred Mental & Addiction Health (AMAH) is responsible for the operation of services, which focus on people with a severe mental illness residing in the Inner South Eastern area of Melbourne.

The single most important goal of AMAH is to create an environment that facilitates clinical recovery, supports individual recovery efforts and strives to minimise service system barriers to the recovery process.

About the role

The Caulfield Aged & Liaison Psychiatry Service (Older Adult Mental Health Service) provides assessment, treatment and ongoing management for people over the age of 65 years with a mental health disorder including psychological & behavioural disturbances.

The service encompasses an acute inpatient assessment unit (Baringa), and a multidisciplinary Community Assessment Team that includes Mobile Aged Psychiatry Service (MAPS).

Baringa consists of 15 beds and is staffed on an interdisciplinary model with 24-hour nursing care.

The Community Assessment Team (MAPS) is essentially the front line of the mental health program. The inter-disciplinary team undertakes primary functions of community-based assessment, treatment and case management of older persons with mental health problems.

What you will be doing

In this role, you will use your lived experience of mental distress and recovery to provide psychosocial support and non-crisis interventions to consumers in the acute inpatient setting and post discharge for up to 28 days.

You will also provide consumer directed tailored support to consumers, in collaboration with existing treatment plans and support structures. Working within the multidiscipline treatment team, you will identify consumers who would benefit from peer support post discharge.

About you

• Personal experience of having a significant mental health challenge and the ability to use own experience to inspire hope and belief in recovery
• Be able to articulate the guiding principles, values and ethics of peer support work
• Experience working in a Consumer Peer role - desirable
• Australian working rights
• Current Victorian Driver's License

Benefits

• Salary Packaging & Novated Leasing through Maxxia.
• Flexible Heath Insurance coverage through HCF Health Insurance
• On-site car & bike parking opportunities, Deducted Pre-Tax!!
• Fantastic onsite fitness facilities at The Alfred through ProSport Health and Fitness.
• Child Care Services at The Alfred managed by KU Children’s Services

If this opportunity sounds like it is for you, click the Apply Now button, include your resume and cover letter.

For more information regarding the position please contact Di Alphonso on ph: 9076 6395 or 6396.

Alfred Health is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to attracting and retaining a diverse workforce that reflects the community we serve. Applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders are encouraged.

In accordance with the Health Minister's Covid-19 Mandatory Vaccination Order, all Alfred Health employees are required to be fully vaccinated (3 doses) for COVID-19 or hold an acceptable medical exemption. Furthermore, in accordance with the Health Services Amendment (Mandatory Vaccination of Healthcare Workers) Act 2020, health care workers in Category A or B roles (as determined by the department’s risk ratings) are required to be vaccinated against influenza or hold an acceptable medical exemption.

Website: alfredhealth.org.au.