CarerKey Supports Lived Experience Worker- Eating Disorders

Position Description:

Title:X2 Carer/Key Supports Lived Experience Worker Eating Disorders

Hours:22.5 hours per week

Award:Social Community Home Care and Disability Services Industry Award

Classification:SCHADS 4.2

Location:Placebased Cairns and statewide Service reach Telehealth

To apply and be considered for this position you need to submit the following:

Current resume (maximum three pages)

Response to Key Selection Criteria (maximum two pages)

Contact details for three referees

For this position you need to have a Lived Experience of caring for/supporting someone with an eating disorder.

EDQ has two newly funded positions for Carer Lived Experience workers placed based in Cairns!

The Carer/Key Supports Lived Experience Worker offers recoveryfocused peer support to carers and key supporters of individuals with eating disorders. This role sits across the carer/key supports and lived experience teams. The worker provides a safe and compassionate environment where carers can connect with someone who understands the challenges of supporting a loved one through recovery from an eating disorder.

This position operates within a collaborative team environment that is responsive to service users needs and committed to continuous improvement and best practice principles. The Carer/Key Supports Lived Experience Worker is also required to work within the Vision and Mission of Eating Disorders Queensland (EDQ) and contribute to organisational objectives.

Eating Disorders Queensland (EDQ)

EDQ is a statewide communitybased notforprofit organisation. We support both individuals who are living with an eating disorder their carers loved ones and key support people.

Support options include therapeutic and psychosocial support for individuals coaching and community connection for carers. EDQ also provides early intervention opportunities with community education events focused on creating healthy relationships with food and our bodies. We are passionate about eradicating weight stigma and diet culture.

Our Values: Nurture Empowerment Integrity Innovation and Collaboration.

Working Principles

Valuing relationships selfcare care and connection through engagement and capacity building.

Strong collaborative shared decisionmaking environment around service delivery.

Respectful and recoveryorientated empowerment and strengthsbased processes promote empowerment selfdetermination inclusion and choice.

Promoting individual and social change as well as prevention.

Valuing each person and lived experience.

Recognising the interactive impact of individual factors family factors (including genetics) sociocultural factors and gender on developing maintaining and preventing eating issues.

We value the vital role that medical and psychiatric services can have in recovery from an eating issue and offer our services as a partner and an alternative to the medical model depending on the clients need.

Workplace health and safety (WHS) responsibilities: All employees must take reasonable care for their health and safety and that of other personnel affected by their conduct.

Perks & Benefits

Supportive and collaborative work culture and public health events and advocacy

Ongoing training and supervision throughout the role

Close to multiple public transport options

A workplace that values the voice of lived experience.

Safe culture for those with a lived experience of eating disorders

Salary packaging and leave loading offered

Key Responsibilities

Work in line with EDQs policies and procedures

Work in line with EDQs Lived Experience Practice Framework.

Provide information about eating disorders and available internal and external support/treatment options

Understanding and practical knowledge of Motivational interviewing.

Understanding and utilising RAVES principles around adequate nutrition

Be able to conduct a oneonone peer support session with carers structuring sessions in line with carer needs

Deliver recoveryoriented intentional peer support to carers and loved ones supporting those with an eating disorder

Maintain appropriate boundaries around intentional carer peer support and appropriate selfdisclosure and do not move into a therapeutic or friendship role.

Foster a collaborative culture committed to reflective practice individual/team supervision professional development and professional ethics.

Provide telephone support information and referral services to clients families carers professionals and the broader community.

Provide education to clients on the eating disorder sector available treatment options and concepts such as Phases of Recovery.

Provide a lived experience role in groups community engagement events and peer mentoring programs.

Proactively communicate as a team member contributing to shared work functions and team processes.

Maintain a client management system that includes session notes measurement tools and report generation.

Reporting Relationships

This position reports to the Lived Experience Team Coordinator.

Funding:

All positions offered by EDQ are conditional on recurrent funding from the Qld Government. Therefore EDQ offers fixedterm contracts that are in line with funding timelines.

Key Selection Criteria: RESPOND TO THE CRITERIA IN YOUR APPLICATION

Have a lived experience of supporting someone with an eating disorder

Holding a qualification in Peer/Lived Experience Work or Allied Health/Public Health/Human Services (or similar) is highly valued but not essential.

Training and experience in the eating disorders field are highly valued but not essential.

Has completed (or willing) EDQ Carer Peer Mentor training; EDQs online meal support training The Shared Table and First Steps to Eating Disorder Support NonClinical Training.

Be familiar with and align with state and national peer workforce guidelines.

Deliver carer peer support sessions within an intentional peer worker framework and be knowledgeable in motivational interviewing solutionfocused and strengthsbased approaches.

The ability to communicate the process of eating disorder recovery to carers/loved ones whose person is still going through recovery

A high level of awareness around personal selfcare boundaries and a range of practical strategies used to maintain wellness.

A focus on intentional peer support motivational interviewing techniques and a strengthsbased approach.

Familiarity with the eating disorder sector including different treatment options available.

Work in collaboration with an extended treatment team driven by carer goals and needs.

Demonstrated abilities in interpersonal skills emotional intelligence and engagement strategies especially in engaging people with eating disorders.

Support statewide service; travel might be required.

Applicant must possess or obtain the following:

Valid and current drivers license

Queensland Working with Children Check (Blue Card)

Queensland Yellow Card Application for criminal history screening

Applications are invited from Australian citizens or persons with full Australian residency status with relevant experience. People of diverse backgrounds are encouraged to apply for this role.

Please send your application to We will be conducting interviews as we receive applications.