Peer Support Worker
Core
Provide regular, flexible, non-clinical support to service users, assist them to review needs and resources, and monitor activities in Client Support Plans.
Role type
Peer Support Worker
Builds
Community mental health and wellbeing services for adults, families, and carers
Domain
Mental health services
Deliverable
client delivery
Required skills
lived experience of mental illness or caring for someone with mental illness, knowledge of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture, capacity building facilitation, independent work, multidisciplinary collaboration
Preferred skills
Cert IV in Community services, Bachelor's or Diploma, Blue Card, NDIS worker screening clearance, current driver's licence with vehicle
Responsibilities
Provide sensitive, client-focused, community-oriented support and advocacy, enable client independence through information and training, perform outcome measures and data collection, manage rosters and case notes, participate in professional development and critical incident management
Seniority
Entry-level to Mid-level, hands-on IC