Flourish Australia has an exciting opportunity for a Peer Worker to join our Community Businesses team in Marrickville! The position available is: Ongoing Full-time (76 hours/fortnight) Working Monday to Friday Based in Marrickville, working across our Community Business sites in Marrickville, Surry Hills, Harris Park and North Parramatta Attractive hourly rates equivalent to SCHCADS Level 3 $38.65 - $41.45p/h 12% Super Tax-Free Salary Packaging! About the Community Businesses Social: to create a recovery and reintegration pathway for people with mental health issues through various employment activities. Economic : to operate the business on a commercially sustainable basis of profitable growth whilst simultaneously offering employment opportunities for people. Product: to provide a range of commercial industry-standard products that meet the expectations and needs of targeted markets. Support: to increase awareness of mental health issues and to encourage businesses to support the Community Businesses. For more information on how our Community Businesses provide recovery-focused employment and support, please visit our website . About the Opportunity Flourish Australia’s Community Businesses provide vocational support and training within a commercial environment to people with lived experience of mental health issues. They achieve this goal by tailoring meaningful employment activities that support an employee’s vocational journey with practical on the job training and a group based learning experience. These vocational activities culminate into achieving the Community Businesses objective of transitioning employees into open employment. The objectives of our community businesses are to provide a supportive working environment where people can: Reconnect gradually with employment and earn an award-based wage; Gain or enhance the social skills required to operate successfully as an employee; Learn about recovery and how to improve their physical and mental health and wellbeing, and plan their recovery journey with support from a peer worker; and Gain useful trade or industrial skills and qualifications relevant to future working opportunities. As a Peer Worker with Flourish Australia, your own life experience of a mental health issue and personal recovery will provide a distinct advantage as you mentor and support people with lived experience of a mental health issue. You will be required to use this lived experience openly, appropriately and effectively to build professional relationships with the people you support that also have a lived experience of a mental health issue.
