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

Position details

• Full-Time Permanent Position
• 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: Silverwater.

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. Theseservices include mental health and wellbeing, housing and homelessness, and suicide prevention."

About your new role

Peer Support Workers are integral members of the team and draw on their lived experience of recovery from mental illness, to instil confidence and hope in others about the journey of recovery. You must have a lived experience of your own mental illness and a rich understanding of your own processes of recovery. You must be willing to purposefully use your own story to help others further their own understanding of recovery.

You will work collaboratively in planning and co-facilitating a peer group based on the self-development program known as Flourish. The Peer Support Worker may also assist new consumers in their entry into the service and in providing individual support to consumers focusing on their strengths to achieve identified goals.

What you will bring to the role

• Seek to learn about the consumer's interests, their connections with family and friends, and work with the consumer in building their capacity to be part of their community.
• Provide emotional support to consumers by constructively applying lessons learnt through your own lived experience, i.e., be a bearer of hope that recovery can and does occur.
• Assist consumers in navigating the system and finding the best possible support available for them within the community or local health system.
• Draw upon your understanding and belief in strength based, recovery orientated models of service.
• Engage consumers and develop trusting and professional relationships that respect worker/consumer boundaries.
• Work as part of a team in assisting consumers to engage with the practices associated with the Collaborative Relational Practice, i.e., assisting the consumers in values and strengths identification and clarification, assisting the consumer to complete tasks as part of goal striving.
• Utilise the facilitation of the Flourish program to promote with consumer participants: recovery, self-agency, and life visioning in their communities of choice.
• Personal lived/living experience of your own recovery or of a family member, friend. Your recovery experience may be related to mental health, suicidal crisis, drugs and alcohol use or trauma
• Willingness to identify or be identified by others as a professional with lived experience of recovery
• Willingness to share and draw on lived experience purposefully in the role to instill confidence and hope in others about the journey of recovery

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 drivers' licence
• Australian working rights

How to Apply

The terms and conditions of the role are listed in the position description, via our careers page. If you have any further questions not addressed in the job advertisement or position description, please contact:

• Ana Lopez, Service Manager - [email protected]
• Amanda Jeffrey, Senior Practice Leader, [email protected], using the subject line: Peer Support Worker - SIlverwater enquiry via EthicalJobs.

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.