• Use your lived experience to provide meaningful recovery-orientated supports to clients with mental health challenges
• Permanent| Full Time position (38 hours per week)
• Mile End Location 

Mind strongly encourages applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, people with a lived and living experience of mental distress and recovery, and applicants from all cultures, genders, sexualities, bodies, abilities, spiritualties, ages and backgrounds.

Mind Australia is one of the country’s leading community-managed specialist mental health service providers with a range of residential, mobile outreach, centre based and online services. Mind has been supporting people experiencing mental health and wellbeing challenges to find help, hope and purpose in their lives for more than 45 years.

We provide practical and motivational support that helps people to develop the skills they need to move on, thrive and improve the quality of their lives. It’s an approach to mental health and wellbeing that looks at the whole person in the context of their daily life. Mind is committed to diversity and social inclusion.

About the role

We are seeking a compassionate, resilient LGBTIQA+ Peer Practitioner for a Permanent, Full Time opportunity to work alongside the  Wellness Connect team in the Central Adelaide area. You will utilise your lived experience of mental ill health and recovery, to provide services to consumers, families and carers in line with Mind’s Model of Recovery Oriented Practice, My Better Life model and organisational values for people experiencing a severe mental health condition resulting in reduced psychosocial functional capacity.   

Peer support is an important part of Mind’s approach to recovery. The Peer Practitioner works as part of a multidisciplinary team with lived experience of mental ill health and recovery being the unique specialist lens that they bring. 

Key responsibilities

• Draw on the knowledge, skills and expertise as a member of the LGBTIQA+ community to inform your practice with people who share similar experiences.
• Provide direct support to individual consumers to enable them to engage in a meaningful life by supporting them through a strength-focused, staged approach to recovery using agreed practice techniques and approaches.
• Create linkages and build relationships and referral pathways with services that support LGBTIQA+ community members.
• Share your personal lived experiences in an appropriate and meaningful manner to provide support, empowerment, instil hope, and contribute to the consumer’s recovery process.
• Engage with consumers to fully understand their need for assistance from local service providers with clinical mental health, physical health, education and employment, LGBTIQA+ community connectedness, eligible entitlements and benefits, housing, transport, recreation and social connections. 

What you’ll bring

• Tertiary qualifications (minimum Certificate IV) in Mental Health, Peer Work, Psychology, Social Work, Occupational Therapy or other health related field as designated by Mind.

• Experience and expertise in working directly with LGBTIQA+ people with mental health challenges.
• Demonstrated knowledge and experience in the application of theoretical approaches, practices and appropriate service responses including family inclusive practice, trauma informed theory, motivational interviewing, and harm reduction.
• Ability to disclose your lived experience in an appropriate and purposeful manner to support, empower, bring hope and support the recovery of consumers.
• Awareness and understanding of the NDIS is desirable. 

What we Offer

• Salary packaging up to $15,899 p.a. allows you to allocate a portion of your pre-tax income to cover living expenses (e.g. rent, mortgage, child care, car leasing expenses etc.)
• Option to access Meal and Entertainment allowance up to $2,650 p.a. via Salary Packaging.
• Professional development through regular supervision sessions 

Interested?

To obtain a position description and apply online click Apply Now to visit Mind Careers - reference number 495157. Online applications must be submitted by 11pm Tues 25 June 2024. Please contact the person below for more information. 

Kathryn Cousins, Senior Service Manager

[email protected] 

The successful applicant is required to complete comprehensive reference and background checking prior to employment, including a Working with Children Check, NDIS Workers Screening Check and the ability to obtain vaccinations against COVID-19.