• Provide positive, recovery-orientated support to clients experiencing ill mental health and achieve their wellbeing goals to live independently
• Permanent Part time role | 30 hours per week
• Day Roster | Frankston Location

Mind strongly encourages applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, people with a lived and living experience of mental distress health and recovery, and applicants from all cultures, genders, sexualities, bodies, abilities, spiritualities, 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. We have been supporting people living with the day-to-day impacts of mental illness, as well as their families, friends and carers for over 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

Adult ‘step up, step down’ Prevention and Recovery Care (APARC)  is a short stay residential service, delivered in partnership Victorian hospital networks and Health Service, supports clients aged 25-65 years with psychosocial disability to transition from an acute hospital setting or prevent hospital admissions for those entering directly from the community. The service provides individualised 1:1 support, shared supports and group work based on client’s strengths to enable people to achieve their recovery goals, enhance relationships with families and carers, develop social skills, and build community networks, and increase confidence and capacity to live safely in the community. 

We are seeking a compassionate, self-motivated Peer Practitioner to work alongside a caring team in Frankston. You will utilise your lived and living experience of mental ill health and recovery to provide services to clients, families and carers. Peer Practitioners play an integral role in working collaboratively with clients to achieve their recovery goals through one-to-one support, shared supports, workshops and group work facilitation to enhance recovery, personal growth and activities of daily living.

Key responsibilities

• Willingness to utilise your own lived experience of mental ill health and recovery and/or caring to inform your work and the work of the team.
• Disclose your lived and living experience in an appropriate and purposeful manner to support, empower, bring hope and support the recovery of clients.
• Draw on the broader lived experience knowledgebase to inform your practice.
• Support the team to understand and deliver services that are consistent with recovery oriented practice from a peer/lived experience perspective.
• Undertake lived experience related projects and adopt peer work portfolios as required.

What you’ll bring

• Tertiary qualifications in (Minimum Cert IV ) Mental Health, Peer Work, Psychology, Social Work, Intentional Peer Support Core and/or Advanced training or other professional field as designated by Mind.
• Previous experience in using lived experience expertise in a dedicated Peer role strongly desirable.
• Experience, expertise and/or desire in working directly with people with mental health issues, and their families and carers.
• Experience or ability to acquire skills in understanding needs and working collaboratively to plan wellbeing supports using evidence informed approaches and tools.
• Experience and/or commitment in providing empathic person centred relational support. 

Benefits

• Salary packaging up to $15,900 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.).
• Generous leave entitlements including 8 weeks paid parental leave, 17.5% annual leave loading.
• Learning, development and career opportunities. 

Interested?

To obtain a position description and apply online click Apply Now to visit Mind Careers - reference number 495579. Please contact the person below for more information.

Karen Brown, Service Manager

[email protected]

We are committed to making reasonable adjustments to provide a positive, barrier-free recruitment process. If you require any support or reasonable adjustments to complete your application, please contact us at [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.