• Part-Time (0.8 FTE), Fixed term until Mar 2025
• $38.69 per hour + super + salary packaging
• Work for a multi-award-winning iconic community health organisation
• Generous salary packaging options to reduce your cohealth taxable income

So why cohealth?

cohealth leads the way in reducing health and social inequity in partnership with people and the communities in which they live. Named Premier's Health Service of the Year (Primary) and the Supporting LGBTIQ+ Health Service at the Victorian Public Healthcare Awards, cohealth's 1000 staff demonstrate courage, leadership, innovation, and agility in their commitment to providing inclusive and culturally safe health services that protect the human rights of all people of all gender identities, sexualities, ages, cultural and linguistic backgrounds, faiths, and abilities.

Our inclusive workplace culture enables staff to bring their whole selves to work, where uniqueness is valued, and people experience a feeling of belonging. Our aim is for everyone to thrive in their role. Please click here to find out more.

About the role

The Peer Worker collaborates with clients, carers, and other service providers to support access to AOD, social, physical & mental health services that enhance health and well-being. The Peer Worker intentionally and safely utilises or shares their lived/living experience or recovery journey to support clients' sense of hope, and engagement and promote capacity for change for positive health and wellbeing.

Please refer to the Position Description for more information.

Your duties include:

• Utilises or shares lived/living experience/recovery journey where appropriate, relevant, and purposeful in a safe way to support clients in identifying goals and steps required for the client to achieve them
• Participate in assertive street outreach
• Respond to challenging behaviour calmly and assertively using a trauma informed framework in line with cohealth policies and procedures
• Maximise opportunities to provide information and education on safer drug use, BBV and STI treatment and prevention, and drug overdose prevention and response.

What cohealth offers:

• Exciting Parental leave benefits
  • cohealth offers primary carers 14 weeks paid parental leave upon completion of only 6 months of continuous service
  • Eligible co-workers will continue to receive superannuation on unpaid parental leave as well
• Salary packaging to suit you - tax free amount of up to $15,900 p.a (mortgage, rent, or credit cards) and a further $2,650 p.a (meal, entertainment expenses and holiday accommodation) alongside generous reward programs from our salary packaging providers. Find out more on salary packaging here: https://www.ato.gov.au/Individuals/Jobs-and-employment-types/Working-as-an-employee/Salary-sacrificing-for-employees/
• Novated Leasing available
• Counselling services for you and your immediate family through our EAP-Access provider, and mindfulness, resilience, and wellbeing programs
• We offer inclusion, equality, and opportunity in a workplace where making a difference counts (based on our guiding principles and values)

Our ideal candidate:

• A lived/living experience as a service consumer of AoD services, or as a person who has used drugs or alcohol and has capacity to view substance use through a harm reduction lens
• Ability to collaborate and work effectively in a team
• Capability to communicate, actively listen and deliver services with respect, enthusiasm, and commitment
• Relevant lived or living experience and the capacity to share lived experience in a strengths-focused way

All appointments are made subject to a satisfactory Police Check, a Working With Children Check (WWCC), complete a Statutory Declaration, evidence of legal rights to work in Australia, and evidence of vaccination against COVID-19 (3 doses). Additionally, some roles will also require current AHPRA registration and/or NDIS Worker Screening Clearance.

Roles that are determined to be Risk Category A or B [staff that have direct and/or indirect contact with body substances and are at higher risk of occupational exposure to infections] will be required to provide evidence of immunisation assessment including Influenza prior to commencement [A] or within 12 weeks of commencement [B]. This is in accordance with the Victorian Minister of Health Mandatory Vaccination Orders for COVID-19 and legislated requirement for influenza vaccination.

Application Process

Click on apply now to be directed to our careers page. You will be asked to upload your CV/ resume and Cover Letter. We will be conducting interviews for this role as applications are received. This campaign will close on the mentioned date at 10.00 PM. If you have any questions regarding this role, please contact Jill Tejada jill.tejada@cohealth.org.au