The Community Engagement Peer Support Worker is responsible for ensuring that guests with underlying needs, risks and vulnerabilities are identified early when they visit our iconic Loaves & Fishes Free Restaurant and AOD Hub in Ashfield. Our Peer Support Worker play a crucial role within the team, utilising their personal journey of recovery from Alcohol and Other Drug (AOD) challenges. You will leverage your lived experience to inspire confidence and hope in others regarding the AOD recovery process.
Prospective candidates should possess a firsthand understanding of their own AOD recovery journey and be open to purposefully sharing their story to assist others in enhancing their comprehension of the recovery path.
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- Greet and engage with guests in a non-judgmental manner, fostering, and creating positive relationships while at the same time assessing their individual support needs
- Provide information, referral and advocacy to guests using trauma informed care and practices
- Provide support to guests who are in times of crisis and advocate on their behalf where required
- Provide emotional support to guests by constructively applying lessons learned through your own lived experience, i.e., be a bearer of hope that recovery can and does occur
- Collaborate and liaise with BCF Intake Workers, Case Managers, and Medical and Allied Health team
- Build and develop guests’ knowledge, experience, and connections to internal available support, programs and activities
- Assist and link guests to support options available internal to organisation or external
- Provide emergency material aid support such as food parcels, clothing, toiletries, showers, personal care and after hour meals
- Ensure all client information and provision of services are correctly entered into the client database and other reporting mechanisms where required
