Wellbeing Place Peer Host Coordinator

Wellbeing Place Peer Host Coordinator
1 Full Time Position – Broken Hill

The Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia South Eastern Section provides comprehensive health services to rural and remote communities in far west NSW, SA and QLD.

The Wellbeing Place Peer Host Coordinator position will support the establishment, coordination and service delivery of the brand new RFDSSE Wellbeing Place in Broken Hill. It will be a front of house role with requirement to develop and maintain systems and processes to enable effective service delivery to community and smooth working systems for internal staff. Allied mental health and wellbeing consultations, interventions, groups, education-discussion seminars and social-arts-cultural wellbeing activities will all occur in the RFDSSE Wellbeing Place.

This role will be the face of the Wellbeing Place and will maintain the therapeutic milieu to support the impact for clients upon entering premises. The role will also provide basic administrative tasks to support senior management. The successful candidate will be proficient in Microsoft Office applications, particularly Outlook and Publisher and have the ability to manage a calendar, collect data and write reports.

Qualifications & Experience that are desirable:
- Experience living with or caring for someone with mental ill-health or peer advocacy experience regarding mental health and wellbeing.
- Experience in office administration or program management preferably in health field
- Desirable – formal qualification relevant to role
- Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively with professional with general public.
- Demonstrated ability to work autonomously in a multi-functional environment.
- Ability to liaise effectively at all levels with a diverse range of people and disciplines, both within and outside the organisation.
- Compassionate personality and personability when interacting with all people.
- Professional boundary awareness when working with vulnerable people and a diverse population group
- Have undergone or are willing to undergo Mental Health First Aid ATSI version or similar
- Experience developing systems and processes, policy-procedure-guidelines and implementing same highly desirable

For more information contact David Honeysett on 0427 248 884.

To apply: Email your Cover Letter and CV along with copies of your qualifications and details of two referees to careers@rfdsse.org.au.

Applications close Monday 31st August 2020

Any published closing dates are estimated, the RFDS SE aim to fill vacancies as quickly as possible. This means that we will close adverts as soon as we have found the right candidate and this may be before the published closing date. We would therefore advise interested applicants to submit an application as early as possible.
RFDSSE is an equal opportunity employer