Lived Experience Worker - Drug Alcohol and Addiction

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• Consumer Peer Work Supervisor, LEW Level 4, full-time, fixed until 30/06/2025
• Based in the Clayton Adult Community Mental Health Program
• Great supportive team working environment with professional development opportunities

Join our team as a Consumer Peer Work Supervisor on a full-time, fixed-term basis until 30/06/2025. Based in on community mental health service at Atherton Road, Clayton.

About our Lived & Living Experience Workforce at Monash Health
Monash Health is one of the largest Lived and Living Experience Workforce employers in Victoria, encompassing both Consultants and Peer Workers. Our Peer Workforce, which includes both Consumer and Family/Carer Peer Workers, is integral to several of our inpatient units, community teams, emergency departments, and drug and alcohol services. We are dedicated to fostering a safe and supportive workplace, reinforced by strong professional leadership, reflective supervision, and opportunities for connection through co-reflection, employee forums, and ongoing professional development.

About Clayton Community Mental Health Program
A number of teams within the Clayton Community Mental Health Program are based at Atherton Road Centre in Oakleigh. These include the Continuing Care Team (CCT), Mobile Support Treatment Team (MSTT), HOPE,  Acute Community Intervention Service (ACIS) and our Group Programs. In addition to these teams, there is the State-wide Gender Clinic, Continuing Care Units (CCU), and Prevention and Recovery Centre (PARCs).

About the role

The Consumer Peer Work Supervisor provides lived experience leadership to the team of Consumer Peer Workers within the Clayton Community Mental Health Program. The role is primarily focussed on providing professional leadership, mentoring, and supervision to Consumer Peer Workers and may include the provision of direct peer support to consumers. The role may also include providing consumer lived experience perspectives in the development and delivery of the Clayton Community Mental Health Program.

About you 
As a designated consumer in the  lived experience role, you will have a declared personal experience of living with mental illness, and experience of the mental health system.

You possess a deep understanding of mental health challenges through your own lived experience as a consumer and are passionate about supporting others. You have a genuine commitment to enhancing the lives of individuals with mental health difficulties and their carers. With a strong focus on inclusion, diversity, and person-centred care, you bring excellent communication and interpersonal skills to your work. Your enthusiasm, compassion, and ability to collaborate effectively within a multidisciplinary team set you apart. You are driven to pursue a meaningful and purposeful career, with a desire to grow as a lived experience health professional.

As an experienced peer worker, you are dedicated to fostering reflective practice in collaboration with others.

What You Need:

To ensure your success in this role you will demonstrate the following key skills, experience and knowledge (see attached Position Description for a complete list of requirements):

• Declared personal experience of living with mental illness, and experience as a mental health service user.
• Ability to use your own lived experience to inspire hope in belief and recovery.
• Knowledge of peer work principles and the ability to support others from a mutual perspective.
• Understanding of the Victorian public mental health system.
• Experience of mentoring and providing consumer perspective supervision.
• Completion of Intentional Peer Support (IPS) training.

• Completion of, or working towards, Certificate IV in Mental Health Peer Work or similar qualification.

• Minimum of 2 years’ experience working as a peer worker or equivalent role is desirable.

What the Lived & Living Experience Workforce at Monash Health offers:

• Comprehensive orientation and induction program.
• Up to 2 hours reflective supervision per month, plus group co-reflection spaces.
• Higher Education Recognition Allowance.
• Funded Lived & Living Experience professional development and training opportunities.
• Quarterly Lived & Living Experience Workforce forums.
   

Monash Health employees enjoy a range of benefits including:  

• Salary packaging options that increase your take-home pay.
• Comprehensive Health and Wellbeing program.
• Free flu vaccinations.
• Private health insurance at discounted rates.
• Health imaging services.
• + more

For a confidential discussion and to explore the opportunity further, please call Carmen Cilmi, Interim Community Services Manager, Clayton, 0407 100 192 or Tom Pickup, Consumer & Family/Carer Service Operations Manager, 0481 904 811.

Position Description can be found here.

We recognise the value of equal employment opportunity. We are committed to patient safety, promoting fairness, equity and diversity in the workplace and to Child Safe Standards. At Monash Health we are relentless in our pursuit of excellence and work to our six guiding principles and our five ICare values. To learn more about our organisation visit monashhealth.org.

Respectfully, applications from recruitment agencies will not be accepted.

How to Apply

Applications are accepted via the Monash Health online eHub system. For information including how to apply and probity check requirements, please click here for the ‘Application Guide’.
Applications will be screened upon receipt and selection activity may commence prior to the closing date.

Applications close: 2 December, 2024