Peer Worker
Core
Provide lived-experience informed support, advocacy, and practical assistance to help individuals navigate services, maintain engagement, and build community connections within the Psychological Therapies for Underserviced Populations Program.
Role type
Peer Worker (Mental Health)
Builds
Recovery plans and community support networks for underserved populations
Domain
Mental health and community services
Deliverable
client delivery
Required skills
Lived experience of mental health challenges, navigating health and social support systems, building trusting relationships, identifying barriers to engagement, supporting carers and families
Preferred skills
Experience working with trauma, housing instability, social isolation, AOD issues, justice involvement, service mistrust
Technologies
None
Responsibilities
Utilize lived experience to engage and inspire hope in consumers' recovery journeys; Develop trusting, recovery-oriented relationships; Assist consumers in accessing appropriate services and resources; Provide warm accompaniment to appointments and community activities; Support the development and implementation of recovery plans; Identify and respond to barriers to engagement; Facilitate connections with community and psychosocial supports; Support carers and families by connecting them to relevant services
Seniority
Entry-level to Mid-level, hands-on IC