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Peer Responders, Alan and Rhonda walk the wards introducing themselves to hospital staff<\/p><\/div>\n

“Our 27 Peer Responders come from all over the hospital. We have doctors, nurses, administrative, and support staff who now all proudly wear the Peer Responder badge,” Dr Yan said.<\/p>\n

“Each of them volunteered and applied for the role. There was a selection and interview process, and they all went through training in phycological first aid before they were appointed,” Dr Yan said.<\/p>\n

“Peer Responders don’t take the place of professional counsellors. They can help, though, in providing confidential support during tough times.<\/p>\n

“They’re well-placed to be a first step in referring staff to ongoing support services they may need.”<\/p>\n

Dr Yan said Redcliffe was the second hospital in Metro North to appoint Peer Responders.<\/p>\n

A full list of our Peer Responders is available on QHEPS<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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Twenty-seven Redcliffe Hospital staff have been appointed as the hospital’s new Peer Responders.<\/p>\n

Dr Alan Yan, Chair of Clinical Council and Co-chair of the Wellness Working Group, said the Peer Responders were all speciality-trained to provide support to staff where and when it may be needed. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":438,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-get-redi"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=436"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":443,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436\/revisions\/443"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}