Senior Carer Peer Worker (LEW Level 3) - Women's Recovery Network WREN

Alfred Health

Alfred Health is a leader in health care delivery, improvement, research and education. We are the main provider of health services to people living in the inner southeast suburbs of Melbourne, from ambulatory to inpatient and home and community-based services.

Are you someone with a lived experience of supporting someone experiencing mental health challenges?

• Part-time, 4 days/wk (extended hours service including weekend work) to June 2026
• Lived Experience Worker Level 3
• Located at Ramsay Clinic Albert Road - Women's Recovery Network (WREN)
• We encourage applications from people with lived experience of supporting someone with perinatal mental health conditions and/or eating disorders

What's in it for you

• Frequent professional development opportunities and regular professional supervision
• Supportive multi-disciplinary team environment
• Portable long service leave from other public health services

About us

Alfred Mental & Addiction Health (AMAH) is responsible for the operation of services, which focus on people with a severe mental illness residing in the Inner South Eastern area of Melbourne.

The single most important goal of AMAH is to create an environment that facilitates clinical recovery, supports individual recovery efforts and strives to minimise service system barriers to the recovery process.

WREN is an innovative project being developed in response to the Royal Commission recommendations for partnerships between the public and private sector, and the need for gender segregation and sexually safe units.  

We recognise that women experiencing mental ill-health have specific needs that differ from their male counterparts that require tailored treatment and support. 

Our 30-bed facility located at Albert Road Clinic will be run in a partnership between Ramsay Health and Alfred Health. 

The unit will provide a state-wide comprehensive specialist service for women and those who identify as women experiencing severe mental ill-health and trauma. Our care will be trauma informed and wellness focused. 

You can read more about WREN here [ABC Article] and here (Premier announcement).  

What you’ll be doing

As an integral and highly valued member of the multi-disciplinary team, you will provide peer support to carers and families that have a relative or friend receiving care from WREN. You will work in partnership with the AMAH Manager Carer Peer Workforce, Carer Peer Worker, Carer Consultant and multidisciplinary team to ensure the unique needs of families are understood and that families are supported during the treatment planning processes.

You will have responsibility for the guidance of level 2 carer peer workers and integrating strong processes that support consumer perspective recovery by outlining their specific functions, importance and benefits across the multidiscipline teams. 

About you

• Lived experience of supporting someone experiencing mental health challenges - essential
• A willingness to purposefully use your own story to help others further their own understanding of recovery
• Formal qualifications are not mandatory for this role but may be helpful - Certificate IV in Peer Work, Cert IV in Mental Health, Intentional Peer Support training
• Experience working within a mental health setting within a carer peer workforce
• Australian working rights
• Full Covid-19 and 2024 Influenza vaccinations
• Current Working with Children Check and be willing to undergo a Background Check

Other benefits

• Salary Packaging & Novated Leasing through Maxxia.
• Flexible Heath Insurance coverage through HCF Health Insurance
• Located close to public transport and cafes

If this opportunity sounds like it is for you, click the APPLY button, include your resume and cover letter. 

For more information regarding the position, please contact Emily Stowell (Operations Manager, State-wide & Specialist Services) via email: [email protected]

Applications Close: 11pm AEDT, Wednesday 23rd October 2024

Previous applicants need not apply

Alfred Health is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to attracting and retaining a diverse workforce that reflects the community we serve.  Applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders are encouraged.

In accordance with the Health Minister's Covid-19 Mandatory Vaccination Order, all Alfred Health employees are required to be fully vaccinated (3 doses) for COVID-19 or hold an acceptable medical exemption. Furthermore, in accordance with the Health Services Amendment (Mandatory Vaccination of Healthcare Workers) Act 2020, health care workers in Category A or B roles (as determined by the department’s risk ratings) are required to be vaccinated against influenza or hold an acceptable medical exemption. 

Website: www.alfredhealth.org.au