Peer Recovery Workers, Enhanced Adult Community Living Support Services

• Draw on your lived experience to support individuals with a mental illness to live a fulfilling and meaningful life in their own community
• Multiple Full Time and Part Time opportunities available
• New and exciting service offer
• Be part of a large, recognised provider of mental health and psychosocial disability services across Victoria, the ACT, New South Wales, Queensland and Tasmania
• Based in the Illawarra Shoalhaven Region, New South Wales
• Attractive salary packaging benefits available

About the service offer

The Enhanced Adult Living Support Services (EACLSS) program is a new service offer designed to work with participants to address key areas that support the participant in identifying and nurturing natural supports that sustain recovery and assist in the development of self-management skills.

About the role

The Peer Recovery Worker role is unique as it requires someone with a lived experience of mental illness to share their personal experiences of their recovery to engage and empower individuals in their recovery journey.

Utilising MI Fellowship’s Lived Experience Workforce Framework, the Peer Recovery Worker will provide rehabilitation support and will act as a positive role model for program participants and their families in order to overcome stigma and encourage personal development.

As the ideal candidate, you will possess the following:

• Lived experience of severe mental illness and recovery (as a consumer or carer)
• Tertiary qualifications in social science or similar discipline or relevant experience
• Previous experience working within the mental health sector
• A strong understanding of the biopsychosocial model of mental health, and how social inclusions principles are applied to service delivery and recovery
• Comfortable working independently as well as an active team member
• Highly developed communication and interpersonal skills excellent organisational skills
• Ability to work with culturally and linguistically diverse communities and individuals
• Current valid Driver’s Licence
• Satisfactory Police Records Check and Working with Children Check

About MI Fellowship

MI Fellowship, or Wellways as we are now known, works with people with mental illness and other psychosocial disabilities, their families and friends to improve their wellbeing and to gain inclusion into communities. We provide this support through recovery, education, advocacy programs and provide a range of innovative rehabilitation programs. We currently employ over 450 staff and work across multiple sites within Victoria, Tasmania, New South Wales, Queensland and the ACT.