Peer Worker or Mental Health Worker
Core
Support people accessing mental health services to achieve recovery goals, maintain wellness, and realize their hopes and dreams through recovery-based practice and mutual understanding.
Role type
Peer Worker or Mental Health Worker
Builds
Personalized support plans and connections to community activities and opportunities
Domain
Mental health services / Human services
Deliverable
client delivery
Required skills
Recovery-based practice, strength-based approach, Microsoft Office, data information management systems, driving
Preferred skills
Lived experience of mental health challenge and recovery (Peer Worker only), Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander background, LGBTQ+ community background, mature age
Technologies
Microsoft Office, data information management systems
Responsibilities
Hold recovery and social citizenship conversations, guide individuals in their recovery journey, decrease stigma around mental health challenges, support access to independence-promoting activities, support skill development through self-directed learning
Seniority
Entry to Mid-level, support role