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Join the North West Area Mental Service today!

As a Lead Family/Carer Peer Support Worker to join the Merri-bek Community Team at Northern Health (located in Coburg).

About Mental Health Division:

Northern Health is the third largest mental health service in Victoria Northern.

Within the Mental Health Division, we pride ourselves on providing high quality mental health services to people living in the northern regions of Melbourne, and work in a collaborative way with consumers and carers based on recovery principles.

We aim to provide strong clinical leadership to support all staff in the provision of professional treatment and care by our integrated community teams, inpatient, and residential services.

About the Role:

We provide a comprehensive range of psychiatric services to people who reside in the local government areas of Merri-bek and Hume.

The Community Team delivers intensive quality mental health services to adults experiencing serious mental illness and provides assessment, treatment and case management services within an integrated model.

We are an inclusive, innovative and supportive team who are dedicated to helping those with mental health issues and would love for a like-minded support worker to join us and help make a difference!

This role is an full time ongoing position.

In this role you will:

• Support families/carers in their role in caring for someone with a mental illness, including helping them access the range of community supports they need
• Encourage and engage with families/carers during their orientation to the service and improve their experience of care
• Promote and help others to understand the effectiveness of the family/carer peer role and workforce in clinical mental health services.
• Guide, orientate and mentor other Family/Carer Peer Workers within the team and potentially the wider service
• Utilise your lived experience to provide expertise and guidance to other clinicians of the team who are providing support to families/carers

About you:

• Previous experience in a Family/Carer Peer Support Role (preferably within public mental health)
• A personal lived experience as a Family/Carer of someone with a diagnosed mental illness
• Have a desire to connect, nurture and support the journey of other consumers so as to make it less lonely, gentle and reassuring;
• Be a role model to other families/carers that inspires them to work at having the life they desire
• Work alongside clinicians as an equal partner in providing real support to families/carers
• Liaise with others and advocate regularly for the needs of families/carers

If you don't check every single box, we still want to hear from you! We encourage you to apply. You could be the perfect fit for this role, or perhaps one of our many other exciting opportunities waiting for someone just like you. Your unique qualities and experiences matter.

Next Steps . . .

If this opportunity sounds like the next step in your career, then we would love to hear from you. Please click on the 'Apply' button and follow the prompts.

For further details, please refer to the attached Position Description Alternatively, please contact Max Lynch on 9355 9700.

Applications close Thursday 12 June 2025.

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Work with us! Northern Health is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to attracting and retaining a diverse workforce which reflects the community we serve. Applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, as well as applicants who are LGBTIQ+, who have different abilities, or are from culturally and Linguistically Diverse Backgrounds are encouraged.

All employees of Northern Health must comply with the health service's Staff Health / Workforce Immunisation procedure (as amended from time to time) together with any relevant State Government and Departmental directives. This requires all employees to be vaccinated for various diseases such as, but not limited to influenza.

We offer:

We offer a range of benefits to support and reward staff both personally and professionally, which includes:

· Health and Wellbeing programs, including our ‘Thrive' program

· Flexibility in the workplace and extra leave options and support

· An inclusive and culturally safe space

· State of the art facilities and campus partnerships

· A commitment to ongoing professional development through our ‘Learning Labs'

· Access to salary packaging, EAP and our online library

For a glimpse of life at NH, click here.