Peer Support Worker, Medicare Mental Health Centre (formerly known as Head to Health) in Port Pirie.

We support individuals living with mental health challenges to achieve outcomes they value.

Position details

• Full Time, Permanent
• Classification: SCHADS Level 3 with a salary range of $71,215 - $76,353 per annum + Superannuation
• Salary packaging arrangements providing tax benefits available for living and entertainment expenses increasing your take home income where part of your wage is paid tax free each pay, savings thousands in tax each year
• Location: Medicare Mental Health Centre, Port Pirie SA

About Neami National

"We're big believers in everyone having the opportunity to live a full life - and we give our all to support people to achieve wellbeing and mental health outcomes that matter to them.

For some people, this means having a stronger sense of self. For others, it may mean nurturing relationships or building the confidence to tackle tomorrow. Everyone has different life goals, and at Neami, we walk alongside people to help improve their quality of life on their terms.

We're proud to support 38,000 people living with mental health challenges across Australia and offer more than 70 services, over 45 different Indigenous lands. These services include mental health and wellbeing, housing and homelessness, and suicide prevention."

About your new role

The Port Pirie Head to Health Satellite service offers a transdisciplinary approach in supporting people. Peer Support Workers and clinical staff collaborate to come alongside guests and make sense of what is important in responding to needs and connecting in the community.

Within that approach, Peer Support Workers come alongside guests in a mutual process of listening, learning, being with, and doing with in offering practical, emotional, social, and service access support. In offering a Peer First, Peer Last approach, Peer Support Workers actively welcome and support guests across their time with Head to Health.

Peer Support Workers apply the Lived Experience lens as their foundation, named in the National Lived Experience (Peer) Workforce Guidelines as:

• Learnings from personal experience of mental health challenges, distress and periods of healing, which may include service use.
• Collective knowledge of universal Lived Experience such as marginalisation, isolation, loss of power, and system hurt, as well as hope, healing, and personal recovery as real.
• Professional principles and values such as mutuality, intersectionality, autonomy, hope and sharing power and the history of the Consumer movement, advocacy, and actions.
• Peer Support Workers will need to bring strong self-reflection and relational skills to be able to apply this lens effectively with people, service partners, and in processes to strengthen the team approach and service delivery.

What you will bring to the role

• Minimum Cert IV qualification in Lived Experience (e.g. Cert IV Mental Health Peer Work) or related field (e.g. Psychology, Human Services, Community Services) or complete a qualification within 2 years of employment.
• Personal lived or living experience of mental health challenges, distress, injustice, and journey of wellbeing/healing, and ability to apply learnings from this as your foundation of working.
• Willingness to share and draw on lived experience purposefully in the role to instill confidence and hope in others about the journey of recovery
• Understanding of Lived Experience (Peer) principles and the Consumer movement to ground practice in collective knowledge.
• Demonstrated ability in developing and maintaining respectful and purposeful relationships.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including computer competency

What will Neami offer in return?

• Generous leave entitlements including paid parental leave, an Accrued Day Off each month, Gratis Leave and Wellness Leave
• Professional development through regular practice development sessions and coaching with your supervisor
• Ongoing extensive in-house Learning and Development programs to encourage learning and skill-building
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) through TELUS - providing holistic health and wellness supports and resources to Neami staff and their immediate family
• Flexible work arrangements are available for maintaining your work-life balance

What the role requires

• National Criminal History Check (police check) - disclosable outcomes considered
• Current Working with Children Check - required before commencement of work
• Current Australian drivers licence and access to a car
• Australian working rights

How to Apply

The terms and conditions of the role are listed in the position description which can be found on the Neami Job Vacancy portal (select paper clip icon).
To apply for this position, please:

• Click the 'Apply Now' button where you will need to create a username and password.
• Upload your resume and cover letter.

When applying for this position, you are asked to tell us about your previous work experience, your suitability for this role and your answers to any target questions (where asked).

Please include in your application how you would prefer to be contacted (whether via email, text or phone call).

If you have any further questions not addressed in the job advertisement or position description, or if you require any adjustments to participate in the recruitment process, please contact:

Hiring Manager: Kelly Buttignol | Senior Manager Operations Projects | [email protected] using the subject line: Peer Support Worker - Port Pirie enquiry via EthicalJobs.

If you are excited about this role, but only meet some of the requirements, we encourage you to call or email us to talk about this opportunity. We're passionate about creating opportunities and supporting professional development.
If your application is shortlisted:

• We may invite you to have an informal phone conversation to discuss the role and get to know more about your experience and interest and answer your questions.
• We may invite you to an interview (which may be in person or conducted online via Microsoft Teams) with up to three panel members from Neami.

Be Yourself - Neami values and celebrates diversity including multidisciplinary teams and the unique backgrounds, experiences and contributions that each person brings to our community. First Nations people, those identifying as LGBTQIA+, people with disabilities and culturally and linguistically diverse people are encouraged to apply. Our aim is to create a workforce that is accessible, inclusive and reflects the community in which we live.