Description:
Use your passion for mental health to support people on their recovery journeys and help them realise their goals!Flourish Australia has exciting opportunities for Peer Workers and Mental Health Workers to join our dedicated Lithgow team!
The positions available are:
- Full-time (76 hours per fortnight)
- Part-time (48 hours per fortnight)
- Based at Lithgow
- Workingbetween Monday and Friday
- Attractive hourly rates equivalent to $37.35-$40.05 /hour + Super + Additional Benefits!
As a Mental Health Worker or Peer Worker , you will work in the community to support people accessing our services who have a lived experience of mental health issues to achieve their hopes and dreams. You will play an important part in assisting people to maintain wellness and realise their goals.
On a day to day basis you will:
- Listen to and create opportunities and activities that meet the interests and goals of people.
- Encourage shared learning experiences, and support skill development at every opportunity through self-directed learning, information and education.
- Ensure that individual support is provided to a person that accesses Flourish Australia services that meet their recovery journey goals and is strengths based and led by the person wherever possible.
- Be ‘hands on’ and involved in direct service delivery.
These positions will work across the multiple programs which are run out of our Wagga Wagga site. All of which provide community-based psychosocial support for people with server and complex mental health challenges. The main funding program within Wagga Wagga are National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) services.
We value lived experience and believe peer support is a powerful part of the mental health recovery journey. Therefore, our Peer Worker roles are for those willing to use their lived experience and personal recovery to mentor people with a lived experience of a mental health issue. You will use your lived experience to inform and contribute to staff learning, service understanding, and delivering person-led, strengths focused, recovery based service.
For more information about what it means to be a Peer Worker with Flourish Australia, please review the Position Description and the Peer Worker information statement “What You Should Consider Before Becoming A Peer Worker”.
For more information on the Mental Health Worker role, please read the Position Description.
Please note - Successful candidates must maintain a Class C drivers license and proof of comprehensive insurance must be provided when required. You may be directed to use your private motor vehicle in the course of performing your duties when an organisational pool motor vehicle is unavailable. You will receive the Travelling Transport and Fares Allowance when using your private vehicle for work related purposes.
Who we areFlourish Australia is one of Australia’s most experienced community mental health organisations. Our purpose is to support people to flourish, believe in their futures, and become contributing members of the community.