Your new role: As a Peer Recovery Support Worker, you will use your lived/living experience of mental health and/or substance use recovery to provide practical, person-centred peer support to consumers residing in Community Care Units. Working collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team, you will promote hope, recovery and self-determination while supporting consumers to build skills, resilience and meaningful community connections. Key responsibilities include: Providing personalised peer support using lived experience of recovery Supporting consumers to identify and work towards meaningful recovery goals Assisting consumers to engage with community, services and support networks Modelling recovery-oriented practice, self-advocacy and hope Supporting education, group activities and recovery-focused programs About you: You are someone with lived/living experience of mental health and/or substance use recovery who is ready to use that experience to support others in a purposeful, professional and recovery-focused way. You value empathy, boundaries, collaboration and inclusion, and you bring a strong commitment to peer work values. You will bring: Personal lived/living experience of mental health and/or substance use recovery Strong understanding of recovery-oriented practice and peer work values Ability to build respectful, trusting relationships with consumers and teams Effective communication, empathy and self-awareness Willingness to work a 24/7 rotating roster across community settings 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. 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 better together.
