Senior Peer Practitioner
Core
Provide peer support and connection to young people and their families using personal lived experience of mental health challenges and recovery.
Role type
Senior Peer Practitioner (Lived Experience)
Builds
Recovery-oriented services and integrated, consumer-centred service delivery within a multidisciplinary team.
Domain
Mental health and community services
Deliverable
client delivery
Required skills
Lived experience of mental health challenges and recovery, peer support facilitation, mentoring and supervision of peer practitioners, strengths-based recovery approach, multidisciplinary team collaboration, crisis care support
Preferred skills
Lived experience supervision, working in fast-paced environments, Certificate IV in Mental Health, Postgraduate qualification in mental health
Technologies
N/A
Responsibilities
Provide meaningful peer support and connection to young people and their families, mentor and support Peer Practitioners to build skills and confidence, advocate for the voices and needs of young people and families, ensure lived experience perspectives are included in service delivery
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with mentorship responsibilities
