Peer Family Support Worker - Part Time

Job description

Wellways is committed to reconciliation, lived experience and inclusivity. We strongly encourage and warmly welcome people from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, people with lived experience of mental health and disability and people who identify at LGBTIQA+ to apply. Even if you only meet some of the criteria, we’d love to hear from you. Wellways, recognises the unique contribution that Peers offer in the delivery of support services to improve community health and wellbeing. Peers offer an expertise that cannot be developed through study; it is their experience of supporting a loved one with a mental health issue and/or suicidal crisis or attempt, and their path of recovery, that informs their values, beliefs and expertise in the development of programs that meet the needs of community and their loved ones. Peer Family Support Worker is focused on support, mutual understanding and psychoeducation on aspects of care that work and can support a loved during a time of crisis. - Support carers/families who are on their journey to recovery following an attempted suicide - Part time (4 days per week, 30.4 hours) ongoing role in Mackay, Queensland - SCHADS Level 3 ($40....