Youth Peer Worker
Core
Provide regular, flexible, low-level non-clinical support to young people accessing mental health, physical health, and work/study services at headspace Centres.
Role type
Youth Peer Worker (non-clinical support)
Builds
Client support plans and recovery journey outcomes for young people
Domain
Mental health services for youth
Deliverable
client delivery
Required skills
lived experience of mental illness or caring for someone with mental illness, knowledge of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture, capacity building facilitation, independent work, multidisciplinary collaboration
Preferred skills
Cert IV in Community Services, Bachelor's or Diploma, WWCC, NDIS worker screening clearance, current driver's license with vehicle
Technologies
Supportability system, journaling tools
Responsibilities
Assist clients to review needs and resources, monitor activities in Support Plans, enable client independence through information and training, perform Outcome Measures and data collection, manage rosters and case notes, provide advocacy and recovery-oriented support
Seniority
Entry-level to Mid-level, hands-on IC