• Part Time 2 days per week for 12 month contract based in Bardon, Brisbane.

As a Peer Support Worker you will:

• Draw on your lived experience and provide outreach support alongside participants with complex needs
• Assist participants in their individual recovery and building independence
• Be involved in individual and group work
• Support participants and carers to develop important life skills

About the Recovery and Discovery Centre

The Recovery and Discovery Centre is designed to provide non-clinical, individual or group support services to people with a severe mental illness and associated psychosocial functional impairment who are not more appropriately supported through the NDIS. These supports are focused around capacity building and connectedness. The Recovery and Discovery Centre is staffed by a multi-disciplinary team who provide psychosocial supports, clinical care coordination and group psychological therapies and has partnered with a number of organisations to provide integrated care. With a framework based on the Recovery Model, the Recovery and Discovery Centre provides support that is strengths-based, client-centred and trauma-informed.

About you

Essential criteria

• Mental Health (or equivalent Human Services, Community Services) qualification of Certificate IV level or above
• Demonstrated knowledge and experience in supporting participants through the key objectives and duties outlined
• Lived experience of your own mental illness and a rich understanding of your own processes of recovery
• A willingness to purposefully use your own story to help others further their own understanding of recovery
• Experience of group work and confidence to support the facilitation of psychological therapy and psychosocial support groups
• Demonstrated knowledge and experience in computer skills, particularly data management systems, word processing skills and Microsoft Outlook management
• Demonstrated ability to contribute as part of a team to provide a safe, equitable and rewarding workplace

Desirable

• Experience and knowledge around strength based, trauma-informed support
• Experience of goal setting and capacity building with participants
• Experience facilitating or supporting the facilitation of groups interactions

Other

• A current open QLD driver’s license and road worthy vehicle, insured to a minimum level covering third party property damage (comprehensive cover is recommended)
• Working with Children card and Working with People with a Disability check (or the ability to obtain one) is mandatory

Click Apply Now to find the copy of the position description and apply. In addition to providing your resume, all applicants must attach a cover letter outlining why this position is right for you by the closing date in the apply now section.