Are you passionate about mental health and helping to educate others? Do you have lived experience of caring for a person with a mental illness or psychosocial disability? Do you get excited about training other carers and enhancing their capacity to care for their loved ones and look after their own wellbeing?

We are excited to announce that we are seeking a casual Carer Peer Trainer with lived experience!

As Carer Peer Trainer, you will provide carer peer experience in the planning, research, design, review, and evaluation of new and existing training sessions as part of MHCN’s training and education program for mental health carers and stakeholders, and development of further training sessions and other relevant activities. You will also use your carer peer experience to facilitate and deliver training sessions for mental health carers and stakeholders, as part of MHCN’s training and education program, and other identified activities as required.

The Carer Peer Trainer role is a designated peer role for a person with lived experience as a carer or family member of a person with lived experience of mental illness. As Carer Peer Trainer, you will call upon your lived experience when delivering training, supporting other carers and when representing them and their needs in the course of your duties.

The Carer Peer Trainer role will work as part of MHCN’s Capacity Development Team (CDT) and Stakeholder Engagement Team (SET). The Carer Peer Trainer will report to the Deputy CEO for HR management such as probationary meetings and performance reviews, supervision and support, and the Stakeholder Engagement Coordinator for work allocation.

What we are looking for:

• Lived experience as a carer of a person with experience of mental illness and/or psychosocial disability is a pre-requisite for this role.

• Relevant tertiary qualifications in social sciences and/or equivalent sector experience in capacity development.

• Experience in facilitating training sessions and/or experience in adult education and facilitation.

• Strong organisational skills, the ability to manage competing priorities and monitor, communicate, and coordinate your own and other’s timelines and deadlines.

• Strong literacy and communication skills, including the ability to prepare information and other communications for a wide range of stakeholders.

• Demonstrated capacity to develop and maintain effective relationships with key stakeholders.

• The ability to work independently and collaborate as an effective member of a team.

• Demonstrated computer skills including ability to use the Microsoft Office Suite – Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams, Outlook and other programs and software as required e.g., Zoom, Canva etc)

For more information, including the Position Description and details of all the Essential and Desirable Selection Criteria, please see Section 4 of the Recruitment Kit attached to this advertisement.

Benefits of working with MHCN:

• Flexible working arrangements such as flexible start/finish times and working from home options.

• A workplace wellbeing program which includes membership of Uprise Wellbeing and EAP services and regular wellbeing breaks.

• Work for a peak-body organisation with a systemic approach to raising the voice of carers to create change.

• Opportunity to work ina modern workspace shared by a like-minded, community-managed organisation, conveniently located in Sydney’s CBD.

• Welcoming and inclusive culture encouraging diversity and equal opportunity. 

MHCN is an equal opportunity employer and encourages applications from all qualified applicants. We strongly encourage applications from people with diverse backgrounds including First Nations people, LGBTQIA+ people, culturally and linguistically diverse people, people living with disabilities and people with a lived experience of or caring for someone living with a mental health condition and/or psychosocial disability.

MHCN encourages applicants to request reasonable adjustments to facilitate the recruitment process. MHCN will consider reasonable adjustments requests to facilitate employment of the right candidate. For further information or discussion, please contact Alex Brown, Administration Coordinator, at [email protected] using the subject line: Carer Peer Trainer - Lived Experience (Casual) enquiry via EthicalJobs

Interested?

For more information on the role, including the Position Description and details of all the Essential and Desirable Selection Criteria, please see the Recruitment Kit attached to this advertisement or contact Alex Brown, Administration Coordinator, at [email protected] using the subject line: Carer Peer Trainer - Lived Experience enquiry via EthicalJobs.