• Utilise your lived/living experience of mental health challenges to support service users achieve recovery goals and independent living
• Fixed term, Part-time 15 hours/week - until 30 June 2025
• The Peel Active Recovery Team (ART) service - Mandurah Location
  

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

Mind Australia is one of Australia’s largest providers of community-managed psychosocial services, supporting people experiencing mental health and wellbeing challenges to find help, hope and purpose in their lives. Operating for more than 45 years and employing more than 1,300 staff around Australia, Mind is a leading employer of people with lived experience of mental health challenges, recognising their unique ability to connect with and motivate clients and guide recovery.

About the role

We are seeking for a compassionate, resilient Peer Practitioner based at the Peel Active Recovery Team (ART) in Mandurah. You will use your lived/living experience of mental health challenges to provide intensive, person-centred, recovery-oriented support to clients, helping them achieve their wellbeing goals, build capacity and daily living skills, strengthen social connections, enhance community networks, and grow confidence to live independently.

About the service

The Active Recovery Team (ART) service, developed in conjunctional with the Mental Health Commission, Mind Australia and health service providers within the mental health and AOD sector, is a community-based, intensive early intervention program. ART provides active recovery-orientated services and coordinated, responsive treatment to individuals for 90 days who have multiple complex needs, severe enduring mental ill health, difficulties engaging with mental health services and high hospital admissions. The service focuses on maximising client recovery and the benefits of a proactive, flexible and integrated community mental health and AOD intensive treatment model.

Key responsibilities

• Draw on the broader Lived Experience knowledge base to inform your practice.
• Support people to return to their community, live independently and pursue a meaningful life using the Intentional Peer Support approach.
• Deliver high-quality services to respond to the unique needs of the service users, offering a flexible and person-centred approach.
• Provide resources and support to service users to foster positive relationships with those important to them, create community networks and access to relevant services.
• Plan and deliver group programs that develop skills and focus on recovery goals.
• Participate actively in team, case and handover meetings through a lived experience and peer lens.

What you’ll bring

• Completion of Intentional Peer Support Core and/ or Advanced Training, or Certificate IV in Mental Health Peer Work, is desirable but not required.
• Previous experience in using lived experience and Expertise in a dedicated Peer role strongly desirable
• Experience, expertise and/or desire to work directly with people with mental health issues, as well as 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.

Benefits

• 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.)
• Fitness Passport - Access to our corporate health and fitness program, providing you and family with access to a wide choice of fitness facilities.
• Access to our Employee Assistance Program (EAP), provided by Converge International, for you and your immediate family members.

Interested?

To obtain a position description and apply online click Apply Now to visit Mind Careers - reference number 496887. Please contact the person below for more information.

Amy Van Leeuwen, 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, and NDIS Workers Screening Check.