The role:
The Family/Carer Peer Worker is a direct peer support role from the perspective of the family/carer’s personal lived experience of supporting individuals with mental ill-health.
The Family/Carer Peer Worker will:
- Work from their own personal Lived Experience, maintaining peer work boundaries, and embedding trauma-informed practice and human rights through their work within the Older Persons Mental Health Service.
- Uphold the Lived Experience values and principles to encourage a recovery-focused, person-centred, and strengths-based approach to all aspects of work.
- Use personal experience to support the families and carers of public mental health services’ consumers/clients/patients, to maintain their health and wellbeing while caring for those with mental illness.
- Work positively and collaboratively with families and carers to identify supports to facilitate meaningful recoveries for the family, to foster hope, and navigate the caring role.
- As part of the multidisciplinary team, the Family/Carer Peer Worker will work positively and collaboratively with families, carers and other staff, to identify and support the facilitation of meaningful recoveries for the family, to foster hope, and navigate the caring role. Their work will be guided by the values of the Older Persons Mental Health and Department of Health.
Note: - Please refer to the Statement of Duties for all the selection criteria of this position to address in your application.
Roy Fagan Centre – Older Person’s Mental Health Services (OPMHS) South:
- OPMHS is currently undertaking a major reform process.
- This is a rare opportunity to be the Roy Fagan Centre’s first Family/Carer Peer Worker
- Through a Lived Experience perspective, work across a multi-disciplinary work force in a team environment.
Details of Appointment
Permanent full time, day worker position working 76 hours per fortnight, commencing as soon as possible.
*notwithstanding hours may be negotiated with the successful applicant
- Applicants should note that, for a period of twelve months from the date of publication, this selection process may be used to fill subsequent or similar full time and part time vacancies.
Salary: $65,236 - $68,925 per annum. Our Employer 11.5% superannuation contribution is on top of this amount.
You’ll have access to salary package a range of benefits including living expenses up to $9,010 + $2,650 in meal entertainment each FBT year + other benefits if eligible.
- Salary range is in accordance with Public Sector Unions Wages Agreement 2022
Benefits available to eligible candidates:
- Professional development and accelerated pathways.
- Excellent leave benefits: 20 days annual leave (pro rata), 20 days personal leave (pro rata), and study assistance leave if eligible.
- Fitness Passport – You, and your family can access 40+ fitness facilities across Tasmania for just $13.95 per week per person, or $25.95 for a family.
Eligibility:
Applicants should note the following criteria are desirable:
- Experience of supporting someone (family or friend) through mental health challenges, service use, periods of healing/personal recovery
- Certificate IV in Mental Health Peer Work, or willingness to work towards same
- Current Driver’s Licence
How to Apply
Apply Online. Please click the "Apply" button on this screen. This ensures important questions about you are answered.
You will be prompted to complete a 1-2 page application outlining your experience, skills and knowledge as they relate to the attached Statement of Duties.
Please note:
- We do not require a separate statement addressing the selection criteria.
- All attachments must be in Microsoft Word or PDF format.
- Referee details are submitted as part of the online application so make sure you have the contact details of two referees before applying.
Download the Statement of Duties and any Associated Documents
We encourage you to review the Applicant Guide & Statement of Duties, prior to applying for an overview of the duties, program, selection process and selection criteria.
Statement of Duties: Generic Family-Carer Peer Worker HSO5 (July 2023) CSU.docx
Applicant Guide: Department of Health - Applicant Guide June 22.docx
For more information
Applicants who require further information are encouraged to contact the Contact person for detailed information about the vacancy.
Stuart Beard
Position: Acting Assistant Director of Nursing - Older Persons Mental Health Service
Phone: 0499 874 501
E-mail: Stuart.Beard@ths.tas.gov.au
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