Job Description
Utilise your lived or living experience to walk alongside others and support recovery through connection, hope and shared understanding
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Permanent, full-time | 7-day rotating roster
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Internal Opportunity | Cairns Medicare Mental Health Centre
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Base Salary from $80,008 (pro rata) + Super 12%| SCHADS Level 3
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Mind strongly encourages applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, people with a lived experience of mental ill health and recovery, and applicants from all cultures, genders, sexualities, bodies, abilities, spiritualities, ages and backgrounds.
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About the role
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This is an internal opportunity for a self-aware LGBTIQA+ Peer Practitioner to join our multidisciplinary team at the Cairns Medicare Mental Health Centre.
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Drawing on your lived or living experience of mental health and/or alcohol and other drug (AOD) challenges, you will walk alongside people experiencing distress, crisis, or mental health challenges, providing person-centred, recovery-oriented support grounded in mutuality and shared understanding.
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As a Peer Practitioner, you will champion the voice of lived experience, promote human rights, and utilise Intentional Peer Support (IPS) and recovery-oriented practices to support individuals to identify their strengths, achieve their goals, build hope, and reconnect with community.
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Key responsibilities
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Provide individual peer support grounded in your own LGBTIQA+ lived/living experience of mental health and/or AOD challenges.
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Utilise the Intentional Peer Support (IPS) framework to walk alongside individuals in distress.
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Support individuals to identify strengths, goals and opportunities for recovery, independence and community participation.
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Develop and facilitate groups that foster peer connection, wellbeing and inclusion for LGBTIQA+ community members.
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Assist people to navigate systems and connect with services and supports that promote wellbeing and recovery.
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Champion lived experience and recovery-oriented practice within a multidisciplinary workplace.
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Support co-design and continuous service improvement through peer co-reflection, supervision, and ongoing professional development.
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What you'll bring
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Lived or living experience of mental health and/or AOD challenges as a member of the LGBTIQA+ community, with a willingness to share your learnings to support others.
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Tertiary qualifications (minimum Certificate IV) in Mental Health, Peer work, AOD, or other health-related field are required.
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Completion of Intentional Peer Support Core and/ or Advanced Training, or Certificate IV in Mental Health Peer Work is highly desirable.
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A commitment to recovery-oriented, trauma-informed, person-centred and anti-oppressive practice.
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Availability to work a rotating roster including evenings and weekends.
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Interested?
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Please find below the position description for your review.
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PD LGBTIQA+ Peer Practitioner (CMMHC) - ******** LE reviewed.pdf
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Online applications must be submitted by 11pm, Saturday 29 August ****.
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Gabrielle Brown - Centre Manager Cairns Medicare Mental Health Centre
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Gabrielle.
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Please note this role is open for Mind Australia employees only so do not share this information with external parties
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The successful applicant is required to complete comprehensive reference and background checking prior to employment, including a Working with Children Check and NDIS Workers Screening Check.

📌 Lgbtiqa+ Peer Practitioner (Queensland)
🏢 Mind Australia
📍 Queensland