Australia
PREVENTION AND RECOVERY CARE PEER COMMUNITY PROGRAM PROJECT OFFICER
Industry:
Other
Career level:
Senior
Employment type:
Full time
Job location:
Australia, Broken Hill
Salary offered
200 001 to 300 000 AUD
Requirements
Education:
Specialist's Degree
Experience:
0-2 years
Languages:
English
Driving license:
No
Job role
Job Description
Psychiatric Nurse (RPN4), Clinical Psychologist (P3), Occupational Therapist (OT3), Social Worker (SW3)
Part-time fixed term until October 2021
Mental Health – PARC – North Fitzroy
About The Company
St Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne (SVHM) is part of St Vincent’s Health Australia and a leading teaching, research and tertiary health service which employs more than 6,500 staff across 18 sites throughout Melbourne. SVHM provides a diverse range of adult clinical services including acute medical and surgical services, sub-acute care, medical diagnostics, rehabilitation, allied health, mental health, palliative care, correctional health and community residential care. SVHM is one of Australia's leading Catholic not-for-profit healthcare providers.
About The Department
Prevention and Recovery Care (PARC) provides short term sub-acute intensive residential services with a recovery focus to consumers who require additional support early in relapse or following an acute in patient admission. The service is run in partnership with Wellways.
About The Role
Under the guidance of the Manager - Mental Health Service Development Unit and PARC Manager, the Project Officer will support the implementation and evaluation of a consumer lived experience-led community group program. The Project Officer will support consumer lived experience peer educators in the development and delivery of recovery-based group modules for consumer participants of St Vincent’s Mental Health.
Duties
Provide direct support to consumer lived experience peer educators in the planning, development and implementation of group modules that form the PARC Community Program
Support processes enabling consumers to register and participate in the program
Engage external training providers/lived experience subject matter experts and support the team in sourcing venues for program delivery
Lead the evaluation of the PARC Community Program in collaboration with the broader team
Facilitate service involvement in key community networks to support planning and partnership processes with a range of community organizations
Contribute to the development of relevant resources for internal and external stakeholders including web based and hard copy materials
Participate in training and education opportunities to support ongoing professional development
Benefits
Medical insurance
Company background
St Vincent’s Health Australia has been providing health care in Australia for 160 years, since our first hospital was established in Sydney in 1857 by the Sisters of Charity. When the first five Sisters arrived in Australia in 1838 they carried with them the vision of their Founder, Mary Aikenhead, to reach out to all in need of care, but particularly those living on the fringes of our society.
It is the legacy entrusted to us by the Sisters of Charity that continues to inspire St Vincent’s Health Australia to strengthen and grow our mission.
Today, St Vincent’s Health Australia is the nation’s largest not-for-profit health and aged care provider. We operate six public hospitals, nine private hospitals and 17 aged care facilities in Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria. Along with three co-located research institutes – the Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute, the Garvan Institute of Medical Research, and St Vincent’s Institute of Medical Research – we work in close partnership with other research bodies, universities, and health care providers.
St Vincent’s Health Australia employs around 18,400 staff and operates more than 2,600 hospital beds and 1,100 residential aged care places. In our hospitals, we provide more than 1 million episodes of care for patients each year.
We are a clinical and education leader with a national and international reputation in medical research. Our areas of expertise include heart lung transplantation; bone marrow transplantation; cardiology; neurosurgery; cancer; clinical genomics; HIV medicine; palliative care; respiratory medicine; mental health; drug and alcohol services; aged psychiatry; homeless health; and prisoner health.
St Vincent’s Health Australia provides compassionate healthcare to people from all walks of life, but reflecting our mission, we are especially committed to people from vulnerable and marginalised backgrounds.
