Lived experience employment opportunity to be Roy Fagan Centre’s Older Person’s Mental Health Services (OPMHS) South first Family/Carer Peer Worker.
An incredible job opportunity for those with lived experience of supporting individuals with mental-ill-health to be the Roy Fagan Centre’s Older Person’s Mental Health Services (OPMHS) South first Family/Carer Peer Worker.
Applications close Wednesday 20th November 2024, 11:55pm
The role:
The Family/Carer Peer Worker is a direct peer support role from the perspective of the family/carer’s personal lived experience of supporting individuals with mental ill-health.
The Family/Carer Peer Worker will:
- Work from their own personal Lived Experience, maintaining peer work boundaries, and embedding trauma-informed practice and human rights through their work within the Older Persons Mental Health Service.
- Uphold the Lived Experience values and principles to encourage a recovery-focused, person-centred, and strengths-based approach to all aspects of work.
- Use personal experience to support the families and carers of public mental health services’ consumers/clients/patients, to maintain their health and wellbeing while caring for those with mental illness.
- Work positively and collaboratively with families and carers to identify supports to facilitate meaningful recoveries for the family, to foster hope, and navigate the caring role.
- As part of the multidisciplinary team, the Family/Carer Peer Worker will work positively and collaboratively with families, carers and other staff, to identify and support the facilitation of meaningful recoveries for the family, to foster hope, and navigate the caring role. Their work will be guided by the values of the Older Persons Mental Health and Department of Health.
Roy Fagan Centre – Older Person’s Mental Health Services (OPMHS) South:
- OPMHS is currently undertaking a major reform process.
- This is a rare opportunity to be the Roy Fagan Centre’s first Family/Carer Peer Worker
- Through a Lived Experience perspective, work across a multi-disciplinary work force in a team environment.
For more information about the role including the Statement of Dutues and the selection criteria go to the Tasmanian Government Family/Carer Peer Worker Job Listing
The information in this post has been directly sourced from the original job listing post by the Tasmanian Government.
