Peer Worker – Windsor

About the role

Flourish Australia, a community mental health organisation, is looking for a Peer Worker to join its Windsor team. The role works in the community with people accessing services who have a lived experience of mental health challenges, supporting them to achieve their hopes and dreams. It is part-time (38 hours per fortnight), based in Windsor, Monday to Friday, at Level 3 on the Flourish Australia Enterprise Agreement (2018), equivalent to $40.49-$43.42 per hour plus super and tax-free salary packaging.

Key responsibilities

• Hold recovery and social citizenship conversations with service users to connect with them, support them and build reciprocity.
• Guide and support each person in their recovery, keeping them the lead in their own journey and focusing on strengths, abilities and possibilities.
• Help reduce stigma and discrimination around living with a mental health challenge.
• Support people to access activities and opportunities that promote independence.
• Support skill development through self-directed learning, information, training and education.

Required profile

• Certificate IV or above in a relevant field, or at least 2 years full-time experience in human services.
• A personal lived experience of a mental health challenge and recovery.
• Willingness to use that lived experience respectfully and appropriately.
• Alignment with Flourish Australia's values and a commitment to recovery-based practice.
• Current Australian driver's licence; private vehicle use may be required and a travelling transport allowance applies.

Required skills

• Strong understanding of the challenges faced by people with lived experience of mental health challenges.
• Microsoft Office and knowledge of data information management systems.

What we offer

• Tax-free salary packaging up to $15,900 plus $2,650 for entertainment benefits.
• Leave loading of 17.5%, two extra days of personal leave, an extra day over Christmas/New Year and paid parental leave.
• Flexible working, career progression and training such as Mental Health First Aid and ASIST.
• Employee assistance program, workplace community groups and employee discounts at major retailers.

Applications close 5pm on 9 November; applicants submit answers to the application questions and attach a resume.