Your new role:

Are you ready to use your lived or living experience of mental health, substance use, or suicidality to support others on their recovery journey?

As a Peer Support Worker in our inpatient mental health ward, you will:

• Use your personal recovery experience to provide peer-led support, education, and advocacy to individuals currently in short-stay inpatient mental health care.
• Facilitate and co-design peer-led groups in collaboration with the multidisciplinary team to support recovery-oriented care.
• Offer trauma-informed, person-centred support to consumers, empowering them to take an active role in their own recovery planning.
• Share knowledge of mental health services and supports - both public and non-government - to assist consumers with navigation post-discharge.

This is an identified vacancy with a genuine occupational requirement for the position to be filled by a candidate who has a personal lived/living experience of mental health and/or substance use issues, or a personal lived/living experience of caring for a person with mental health and/or substance use issues. Candidates not meeting this criteria will not be considered.

About you:

We're looking for someone who brings authenticity, empathy, and insight - grounded in their personal journey of recovery.

To thrive in this role, you will:

• Have a lived/living experience of mental health challenges, substance use, or suicidality, and feel comfortable sharing your story to support and inspire others.
• Be experienced in peer work and passionate about recovery-focused, trauma-informed mental health care.
• Demonstrate strong communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to foster safe, respectful, and inclusive relationships with consumers, families, and teams.
• Ideally hold (or be working towards) a Certificate IV in Mental Health Peer Work and have prior experience in a peer role within either government or NGO settings.

About us:

Metro South Addiction and Mental Health Services:

Metro South Addiction and Mental Health Services provide inpatient, hospital-based and community mental health and community alcohol and drug services for all age groups across a number of campuses.

We embrace a forward looking, progressive approach and work collaboratively with all stakeholders in order to achieve expected outcomes. A clear and strong consumer and carer focus is promoted with our vision being to provide our community excellence in consumer centred, integrated care across the continuum of addiction (alcohol and drug) and mental health services.

INTEGRITY | COMPASSION | ACCOUNTABILITY | RESPECT | ENGAGEMENT | EXCELLENCE

Our values were created by employees for employees to shape our culture and inspire positive interactions in the workplace. Diversity of ideas, skills, traditions, and customs is celebrated as one of our greatest strengths. Having a workforce that reflects and understands the needs and expectations of our community is important to delivering safe, kinder, and more inclusive care.

We recognise our strength comes from the diversity of our people and so we encourage people of all genders, ethnicities, ages, abilities, languages, sexual orientation, and family responsibilities to apply.

We are Metro South Health:

We are the major public healthcare provider for Brisbane's south side, Logan, Redlands, and the Scenic Rim operating five major hospitals and a range of community, specialty, and state-wide healthcare services.

We are bold, innovative, collaborative, inspiring. We save lives, change lives, and make the world a better place. We are part of and proud of the community we serve.

We are better together.