This is an identified role where under S25 of the Anti-Discrimination Act 1991 (Qld), there is a genuine occupational requirement for the incumbent to have a personal experience of being a carer for a person with a lived/living experience of the impacts of mental health, substance use and/or suicidality. Please apply only if meet this criterion. Please call the contact person named above if you have any questions. Your new Role: The Advanced Carer Peer Worker uses their lived experience to support carers and families of older adults with mental health challenges. Collaborating within a multidisciplinary team, they provide peer support, education, and advocacy across community and inpatient settings. The role also involves program facilitation, service improvement, accurate documentation, and working with external agencies, all while upholding values of respect, integrity, teamwork, and compassion. About You: To be successful, you will bring: Ability to communicate proactively and effectively with clarity and purpose. Demonstrated ability to draw on your own lived or living experience as a carer for someone with mental health and/or substance use challenges to support, inform, and educate others in the role. Proven capacity to build and maintain respectful, collaborative relationships with carers, families, staff, health professionals, service providers, and the broader community, while promoting recovery-oriented practice. Ability to empathise, understand, and represent the perspectives of carers, including those from diverse cultural and social backgrounds. Check out our quick tips and application essentials! What we can offer you: We offer a family-friendly work environment that supports you in making the most of Queensland's laid-back lifestyle. We are renowned for teaching and research excellence with strong relations with Queensland's leading tertiary institutions. We want to empower you to build a long-term career, with countless opportunities to learn and grow, no matter your role You'll have all the benefits of working for Queensland's world-class public health system including generous leave entitlements, attractive salary and remuneration packages, salary packaging and access to relevant professional development allowances and/or leave, study and research assistance, corporate discounts and employee wellness programs. 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.
