Recovery Support Worker Location: Braddon, ACT Contract: 6 months Full‑time.

Pay: $40.49 per hour plus super, leave loading and salary packaging options.

Summary: Provide practical, community‑based support to adults experiencing moderate to severe mental‑health challenges, helping them regain, maintain and improve psychosocial skills, self‑management, daily living skills and community connection.

Responsibilities - Support people to identify and pursue personal recovery goals.

- Build the confidence and skills needed to flourish independently.
- Promote inclusion and reduce stigma in community settings.
- Advocate for and create communities that value people with mental‑health challenges.
- Work with individuals, families, carers, friends, kin and community groups to build strong, natural support networks.

Qualifications and Experience - Completion of Certificate IV in Mental Health or Community Services, or equivalent practical experience.

- Capability to work with culturally and linguistically diverse communities.




- Demonstrated ability to work independently and as part of a team.
- Current driver’s licence and willingness to undertake travel.

Required

Checks - Satisfactory police check and Working with Children Check.

- Right to work in Australia.
- Completion of the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Module “Quality, Safety and You”.
- Working with vulnerable people check.
- NDIS Worker Screening Check.

Perks and Working Conditions - Salary packaging up to $15,899.

- Meal and entertainment allowance via salary packaging up to $2,650 per annum.
- Paid parental leave after 12 months of ongoing employment.
- Access to Employee Assistance Program for you and your family.

Employment Details

Contract ends 28 February 2027. This role provides 6 months of parental leave cover with the possibility of extension.

Application Deadline

Applications close 29 July 2026.

📌 Recovery Support Worker (Canberra)
🏢 Wellways Australia
📍 Canberra