Employment Type: Permanent Full Time (38 hours per week)
Position Classification: Health Education Officer (Graduate/Non Graduate)
Remuneration: $62,486 - $114,187 per annum + 11.5% Superannuation + Annual Leave Loading
Location: Canterbury Community Health Centre
Requisition ID: REQ578531

Sydney Local Health District has a long and proud history of delivering care in the community including prevention, early intervention, assessment, treatment, health maintenance and continuing care services designed to improve and support the health and wellbeing of individuals and communities.
The Peer Support Worker uses their lived experience of mental health in a purposeful way that provides hope for consumers, and practical strategies that support recovery.

This role will support consumers across four main areas:

• Developing good physical and mental health.
• Access to housing, employment and education.
• Re-discovering a sense of purpose and personal identity.
• Forming active connections to the community of the consumers’ choice.

Peer Support Workers work with individuals and groups, are always person-led, and provide support contingent on peer choice. Peer Support Workers will work within the model of care for the team they work in.
Child protection – child protection is the core responsibility of all who work in the child and adolescent mental health
service. All staff are required to have detailed knowledge of and comply with policies and procedures relating to Child
Protection and the NSW Health Code of Conduct. All clinicians are responsible for ensuring that identified issues are
documented, escalated and action occurs as appropriate.
For more information, please view the Position Description