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Peer Specialist - Mental Health
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- Barossa Hills Fleurieu Local Health Network
- Barossa - Angaston
- Salary: ASO3 $74,095.00 to $78,694.00 per annum (adjusted to hours worked)
- Part-time (2.5 days per week, 18.75 hours per week) Ongoing
What Are We Offering?
The Peer Specialist plays a vital role within the Barossa Hills Fleurieu Local Health Network Mental Health Service. This role draws on lived experience to support people navigating mental health challenges in a practical and meaningful way. It involves sharing insights that help consumers better understand their experiences, build self-management skills and engage with services. Working alongside clinicians, you’ll support recognition of early warning signs, contribute to relapse prevention planning and assist consumers to make sense of treatment options, including medication. A key part of the role is ensuring the consumer perspective is reflected in care planning and service delivery.
You’ll be part of a collaborative team that values clear communication, respect and shared accountability. The role also contributes to the effective running of the service through participation in supervision, training, documentation and continuous improvement activities. There is a strong focus on culturally responsive practice, inclusion and reducing stigma, while ensuring care remains practical, respectful and responsive to the needs of the community.
Who Are We?
The Barossa Hills Fleurieu Local Health Network offers opportunities across our sites, from Kangaroo Island to Eudunda, wrapping all the way around our metropolitan areas. We pride ourselves on providing exceptional care to all our consumers, residents, their families, and community. Our mission is to ensure that you always receive the best quality, safe, consistent, collaborative care and always with kindness. We do this by maintaining exceptional levels of care at all times supported by systems and processes that assure us of quality and safety of our staff and those we serve.
Where and How You Will Work
Located in the heart of the Barossa Valley, Angaston offers a relaxed country lifestyle surrounded by world-renowned wineries, local produce, and a strong sense of community. Just over an hour from Adelaide, it combines rural charm with convenient access to metropolitan services, making it an ideal location for work–life balance. For more click here Discover Angaston.
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Who Are We Looking For?
- Can you use your own lived experience in a way that supports others while keeping professional boundaries clear?
- Are you able to build trust with consumers and work alongside clinicians to support recovery goals?
- Can you communicate openly and respectfully, even in challenging or emotionally complex situations?
- Do you actively reflect on your own practice and look for ways to keep learning and improving?
- Are you committed to inclusive, culturally respectful care that values each person’s background and experience?
If you have answered yes to any of these questions - then read on…
How Will You Contribute?
You will:
- Support consumers using lived experience to build self-management skills and navigate mental health services
- Work alongside clinicians to identify early warning signs and contribute to relapse prevention planning
- Assist consumers to understand treatment options, including the role of medication
- Advocate for the consumer perspective in care planning and service improvement activities
- Contribute to a collaborative team environment through communication, documentation, training and quality improvement activities
What Will We Offer You in Return?
At BHFLHN, not only will you be working in an environment surrounded by beautiful scenery and nature, we see your work here as not just a job, but an opportunity to extend, progress or consolidate your career with us. We therefore offer you opportunities to be supported in the following ways:
- Salary package a range of benefits (including living expenses such as mortgage, rent, utility bills and groceries) up to $9,010 each FBT year + $2,650 for Meal Entertainment expenses each FBT year Click here for more information
- Access to generous leave provisions and professional development opportunities.
- Support for you and your family via our free Employee Assistance Program.
- Health and Fitness Benefits: Access to Fitness Passport, a discounted workplace health and fitness program available to BHFLHN staff and their families.
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What Else Do You Need to Know/What Is Essential for Success?
Working in this environment, it is important to us that we only employ people with the utmost integrity and commitment to serving the South Australian community and its visitors to the highest possible standards. To ensure that we meet that commitment there are a few checks that you will be required to undertake. These are detailed on the Role Description, but are likely to include the following:
- You will need to be immunised. Please contact the Enquiries Person for this position if you have any queries. Addressing vaccine preventable disease: Occupational assessment, screening and vaccination policy. [https://aus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sahealth.sa.gov.au%2Fwps%2Fwcm%2Fconnect%2FPublic%2BContent%2FSA%2BHealth%2BInternet%2FClinical%2BResources%2FClinical%2BPrograms%2Band%2BPractice%2BGuidelines%2FImmunisation%2Bfor%2Bhealth%2Bprofessionals%2FHealth%2Bcare%2Bworker%2Bimmunisation%2Band%2Bscreening%2Brequirements&data=05%7C02%7CKate.D%27Amico%40sa.gov.au%7C84492bcd1a1a4c98142b08ddc99b9283%7Cbda528f7fca9432fbc98bd7e90d40906%7C0%7C0%7C638888392209064313%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=2CK0LCdjXC6aPyy5kUyuxPfDQu6%2Fcb%2Fp22Z%2BMp0DyXw%3D&reserved=0] Further information is in the application for to help guide you.
- You will need to undergo employment screening, what you require is also on the front page of the Role Description.
Our Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion
We employ people as diverse as the clients we support and the environments we work in. At BHFLHN we pride ourselves on being an Equal Opportunity employer committed to providing an inclusive workplace that embraces diversity and inclusion for all
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