Intake Support Worker â Lived Experience
Intake Support Worker â Lived Experience
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Job Description
- Permanent Part Time (4 days/week)
- Location: Keswick SA 5035
- Salary - $38.23/hr Super NFPSalary Packaging benefit
- Make a meaningful difference to the lives of young Australians in need
Life at Mission Australia
When you join the team at Mission Australia you become part of a community who are determined to end homelessness and ensure people in need can thrive. United by our Christian purpose and values we stand together with anyone who needs us for as long as they need us. Find out moreabout usandour purpose.
Your Opportunity
This role is designed for someone with lived experience. Maybe youve walked your own path through alcohol and other drug use mental health challenges or bothand come out the other side with insight empathy and a desire to support others.
As an Intake Support Peer Worker in our Coexisting Illness team youll use that experience to support people aged 26 as they take their own first steps into recovery. Youll help make our services feel safer more relatable and more human.
You dont need formal qualifications to startwell support you to complete a fully funded Certificate IV in Peer Work opening up an incredibly meaningful career path.
What Youll Do
- Be a compassionate authentic presence for people entering the service
- Help with intake screening and group activitiesmaking the process feel less clinical and more human
- Offer brief interventions and harm-reduction support
- Draw on your lived experience to foster trust and hope
- Build real respectful relationships with clients and team members
- Advocate with and for clientsensuring their voice shapes their care
- Take part in regular supervision and reflective practice
- Contribute ideas to improve our programs from the peer perspective
What Youll Bring
- Your own lived experience of AOD and/or mental health recovery
- A strong belief in peoples ability to change grow and recover
- Openness to learningespecially if youre just beginning your peer work journey
- A willingness to complete a Certificate IV in Peer Work (well fund it!)
- An understanding of recovery and peer work principles and values
- A commitment to safe boundaries self-care and insight into your own story
- The ability to build trust through compassion honesty and humility
- A current drivers licence
Before starting work with us you will need to undertake a national police history check qualifications and referee checks and have a clearance to work with children/vulnerable people.
Your benefits
- Rewarding work every day you know youre making a real difference
- Not-for-profit salary packaging reducing your tax (details via AccessPay)
- Opportunity to purchase additional annual leave
- Free external confidential counselling and access to chaplaincy support
- Volunteering opportunities
- Extra leave including: Mission Australia Thank You Day & Work Anniversary Day off
Our culture
Our innovative and inclusive culture will ensure you feel valued at Mission Australia as you help Australians in need and develop in your career.
We prioritise the safety and wellbeing of everyone both within our team and the individuals we serve.
We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive working environment. We actively support and encourage people of all backgrounds; gender age ethnicity race cultural background disability religion and sexual orientation to submit an application and aim to ensure that the recruitment and employee experience is as accessible and inclusive as possible. So whoever you are if youre skilled and actively support our purpose and values you would be welcome at Mission Australia.
If you live with disability and require support to submit your application please email or visit our Careers page for additional contact details.
We strongly encourage applications from people who identify as Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander. For culturally safe support or assistance with your application please contact us at
Find out more about a career with Mission Australia.
How to apply
Click Apply and send your application today!
As a committed Circle Back Initiative employer we will respond to your application.
Applications are shortlisted as they are received. Please apply as soon as possible to be considered. Thank you
Employment Type
Part-Time
