Part Time 15 hours per week for 19 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

Communify’s Recovery and Discovery Centre is a Mental Health Service Hub that provides integrated clinical and non-clinical services for people living with severe and complex mental illness. These supports can be individual or within a group and use a trauma-informed, recovery orientated approach to support goal-setting and working towards independence. 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.

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 People with a Disability check (or the ability to obtain one) is mandatory
• Fully COVID 19 vaccination proof