Peer Worker

About Us:

We’re leaders in mental health service delivery, specialising in working with adults and young people, and in early childhood intervention.

Stride is a name that expresses our ambition – it’s a name that’s purposeful and shows awareness of the important role we play in the recovery journey.

As we embark on the next stage of our journey, join us to make a difference. We're here to Stride.

Our Service:

The Head to Health service is a brand new service for adults in Western Sydney seeking emotional wellbeing and mental health support. The service provides a combination of peer-led recovery and clinical support and a safe, welcoming and supportive environment for people experiencing psychological distress. Allowing low risk individuals to identify alternatives to presenting to the Emergency Department and gaining access support from trained mental health professional within their community, outside a clinical setting.

On offer:

• Based in Parramatta
• 2x Full-time OR Part-time Permanent opportunities (evenings and weekends are required with these roles - the service operates to 9:30pm)
• Excellent Base salary plus Super
• Salary Packaging options (up to $15,899 tax free!!) May also be eligible for remote area benefits!
• Meals and entertainment allowance of up to $2,650!!
• Leave loading at 17.5%
• Stride Rewards – access to discounts from 100s of retailers (fashion, food and fitness)
• One paid wellbeing leave day per year
• Purchase up to 5 additional leave days in a 12 month period (pro rata entitlement if part-time
• Excellent training and career development
• Supportive team environment

Role Overview:

• Provide regular, flexible, low level non-clinical support to service users, and assist them to review their needs and resources, monitor activities identified in client Support Plans.
• Draw upon your own lived experience to provide emotional support to clients.
• Enable clients to achieve independence as far as possible in all areas of their life by providing appropriate information, opportunity, training and support
• Routinely perform Outcome Measures, and other data collection.
• Effective use of Stride's client data base to record client activity, input journal entries and case notes.
• Provide support (that is sensitive, client focused and community orientated), advocacy and information to our clients with the use of the recovery process
• Attendance and participation in Communities of Practice, professional development and Critical incident management activities.

Requirements:

• Minimum of a Cert IV in a Community services related discipline (ideally a completed Bachelors or Diploma).
• To have experienced a mental illness which is now under effective management or lived experience of caring for someone having gone through mental illness.
• Willingness to identify or be identified by others as a professional with lived experience.
• Knowledge and understanding of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders Culture and the ability to communicate effectively and sensitively with Indigenous Clients.
• Experience, skills and knowledge in working with people experiencing mental illness.
• Understanding of and ability to apply the principles of a recovery-oriented, person-centered, and strengths-based approach to service delivery.
• Ability to implement and facilitate capacity building activities with participants.
• Ability to demonstrate initiative and work independently.
• Capacity to collaborate within a multidisciplinary team across a range of organisations.
• Must be eligible to apply/currently hold a WWCC
• Must hold/be willing to apply for NDIS worker screening clearance 
• Current driver's licence

Vaccination against COVID-19 is a requirement for all positions and is in accordance with Stride policy. As part of the recruitment process Stride requests evidence of vaccination status (in accordance with privacy principles) to ensure compliance with this policy requirement.   

Stride is an inclusive workplace and we encourage applications from diverse backgrounds in order to enhance the depth of cultural diversity and insight within our workforce.

This includes but is not limited to people with a lived-experience of mental health recovery, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, LGBTQIA+, and people with disabilities.

Apply now!

To apply complete the online application form, attach a copy of your CV and a cover letter outlining your suitability for the available role. Applications will be viewed and actioned upon receipt, with a final closing date of 26 March 2024.