Senior Consumer Peer Worker (LEW Level 4) - Adult Inpatient Unit

Bayside Health is a public health service delivering high-quality care across every stage of life for close to 1.2 million people living in metropolitan Melbourne, the Mornington Peninsula, Koo Wee Rup, Bass Coast and Southern Gippsland. It operates more than 15 main sites, including hospitals, centres and clinics, employing over 22,000 staff focused on exceptional, equitable, and locally connected care. Alfred Mental & Addiction Health (AMAH) operates services for people with mental illness in the Inner Southeastern area of Melbourne, aiming to facilitate clinical recovery, support individual recovery efforts, and minimise system barriers. The Adult Inpatient Unit (IPU) comprises dedicated mental health clinicians and lived experience workers, celebrating diversity, setting high standards, and providing timely, effective care while promoting recovery and professional growth for lived experience workers.

About the role

The Senior Consumer Peer worker role is responsible for the guidance of consumer peer workers on the IPU and integrating strong processes that support consumer perspective recovery. This position will be required to provide 28-day post discharge support to consumers for 40% of their time. An important part of this role is to highlight peer work specific functions and their importance and benefits across the IPU multidiscipline teams.

Responsibilities

• Guide consumer peer workers on the IPU.
• Integrate strong processes that support consumer perspective recovery.
• Provide 28‑day post discharge support to consumers (40% of time).