Aboriginal Mental Health and Wellbeing Peer Worker

Job Description:

• Role title: Aboriginal Mental Health and Wellbeing Peer Worker

• Role type: Max term contract until 30 June 2025. Part time 0.5FTE 2.5 days p/week)

• Role grade: Health Education Officer Non Graduate/Graduate. Level 2

• Department and location: Inner City Health Stream St Vincents Hospital Darlinghurst

• Salary: $65978.08 super (non graduate). $74728.05 super (graduate). Pro rata

Better and fairer care. Always.

We are St Vincents Health Australia Australias largest notforprofit provider of health and aged care services.

Founded by The Sisters of Charity in 1857 our 30000 healthcare superheroes operatepublic and private hospitals residential aged care community and virtual care and outreach programs.

About the role

• Engage and Support Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people accessing Aboriginal Health Mental Health Homeless Health Alcohol and Drug Services and the Emergency Department.

• Serve as a positive role model sharing personal recovery experiences to support Aboriginal people

• Assist with crisis & care planning for Aboriginal people

• Deliver individual & group interventions in collaboration with clinicians

• Identify and address risk issues ensuring consumer safety and reporting to appropriate clinicians

• Participate in cultural and peer supervision

• No evenings or weekend work.

About you

• Be of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander descent

• Hold or be willing to obtain a Certificate IV in Mental Health Peer Work

• Able to deliver culturally safe services for Aboriginal people utilizing lived experience

• Demonstrate understanding of mental health service user issues and maintain professional boundaries

• Possess excellent written and verbal communication including the ability to share your recovery journey

Why work at St Vincents

• Join us on our mission to provide care to all including the most atrisk people in our community

• Discounted access to many gyms for you and your family with Fitness Passport

• Access to discounted private health insurance with Medibank

• Access to a government salary sacrifice program. Make a proportion of your salary taxfree

• Committed to financial support for educational development scholarship programs paid study leave

About the hospital

In this role you will be based at St Vincents hospital Darlinghurst.

• A busy innercity hospital in a beautiful location

• Surrounded by great cafes galleries and theatres parks nightlife and nearby glorious beaches

• A place of expert clinical care for atrisk people

• Closely partnered with universities & affiliated research institutes many of which are located oncampus

• Centres of excellence include heart & lung transplantation bone marrow transplantation cardiology cancer care AIDS/HIV respiratory medicine mental health homeless health drug & alcohol services and correctional health

Identified role

Please note this role is only available to Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people.

Preemployment checks

Your employment is conditional upon the completion of all rolerequired preemployment checks including relevant immunisations.

How to apply

The closing date for applications is insert closing date 13 April 2025 or sooner if a successful candidate is recruited sooner.

Please submit your resume and a brief cover letter highlighting how your interest skills and experience align with the role.

Respectfully this role is not open to recruitment agencies.

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Reconciliation Action Plan:

At St Vincents we acknowledge the importance of creating a work environment that is welcoming safe equitable and inclusive for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Employees. As part of our Commitment to Reconciliation and Closing the Gap in employment related outcomes we encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples.

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