The
Infant Child Youth Mental Health (ICYMHS) team
is seeking a
Senior Consumer Peer Worker
to join our Lived & Living Experience Workforce.
This position offers leadership responsibilities alongside direct community impact and is open to both Full-Time and Part-Time applicants.
About the Role
In this position, you will deliver practical, social, and emotional support to young consumers by sharing your own recovery and healing experiences.
Your work will focus on role-modelling hope, fostering relationships built on mutual trust, and promoting self-determination and empowerment in every interaction.
As a senior member of the team, you will also provide vital leadership and guidance to peer colleagues.
You will act as a trusted point of advice for managing complex consumer needs, applying advanced problem-solving skills and skilled judgment within relevant service frameworks.
Key Requirements
We are actively seeking candidates who possess:
Lived Experience: Personal lived or living experience of mental ill health, psychological distress, alcohol and other drug (AOD) use or dependence, and/or suicidality.
Peer Work Leadership: Demonstrated experience working as a Peer Worker within a mental health setting, including a background in providing mentoring, supervision, leadership, or practice development support to other lived experience staff.
Formal Training: Completion of a Certificate IV in Mental Health Peer Work and Core Intentional Peer Support Training.
Purposeful Practice: A proven ability to intentionally utilise your lived experience to promote hope, recovery, and wellbeing for consumers.
Employment Terms
This opportunity is available on a flexible basis, with both full-time and part-time configurations considered to suit the right candidate.
For further details, please refer to the Position Description or alternatively contact Caitlin McAlister at ****** for a confidential discussion.
AWH serves as the largest regional healthcare provider between Sydney and Melbourne, situated in the border cities of Albury and Wodonga.




With a dedicated team of over 3,000 professionals, we proudly service a population of up to 300,000 across North-East Victoria and Southern NSW.
Our extensive network encompasses two primary hospital campuses and an additional 22 sites, delivering a diverse range of emergency, surgical, women's and children's, community, mental health, allied health, and sub-acute services.
Our growth continues with the opening of a state-of-the-art Emergency Department in ****, and excitingly, the construction of a new hospital at our Albury site by ****.
This expansion will greatly elevate our ability to service the needs of our community, and we need a great team of people like you to accomplish this.
About the Role
Closing Date:
25/09/2026
The
Infant Child Youth Mental Health (ICYMHS) team
is seeking a
Senior Consumer Peer Worker
to join our Lived & Living Experience Workforce.
This position offers leadership responsibilities alongside direct community impact and is open to both Full-Time and Part-Time applicants.
About the Role
In this position, you will deliver practical, social, and emotional support to young consumers by sharing your own recovery and healing experiences.
Your work will focus on role-modelling hope, fostering relationships built on mutual trust, and promoting self-determination and empowerment in every interaction.
As a senior member of the team, you will also provide vital leadership and guidance to peer colleagues.
You will act as a trusted point of advice for managing complex consumer needs, applying advanced problem-solving skills and professional judgement within relevant service frameworks.
Key Requirements
We are actively seeking candidates who possess:
Lived Experience:



Personal lived or living experience of mental ill health, psychological distress, alcohol and other drug (AOD) use or dependence, and/or suicidality.
Peer Work Leadership: Demonstrated experience working as a Peer Worker within a mental health setting, including a background in providing mentoring, supervision, leadership, or practice development support to other lived experience staff.
Formal Training: Completion of a Certificate IV in Mental Health Peer Work and Core Intentional Peer Support Training.
Purposeful Practice: A proven ability to intentionally utilise your lived experience to promote hope, recovery, and wellbeing for consumers.
Employment Terms
This opportunity is available on a flexible basis, with both full-time and part-time configurations considered to suit the right candidate.
For further details, please refer to the Position Description or alternatively contact Caitlin McAlister at ****** for a confidential discussion.
About Albury Wodonga Health (AWH)
AWH serves as the largest regional healthcare provider between Sydney and Melbourne, situated in the border cities of Albury and Wodonga.
With a dedicated team of over 3,000 professionals, we proudly service a population of up to 300,000 across North-East Victoria and Southern NSW.
Our extensive network encompasses two primary hospital campuses and an additional 22 sites, delivering a diverse range of emergency, surgical, women's and children's, community, mental health, allied health, and sub-acute services.
Our growth continues with the opening of a state-of-the-art Emergency Department in ****, and excitingly, the construction of a new hospital at our Albury site by ****.
This expansion will greatly elevate our ability to service the needs of our community, and we need a great team of people like you to accomplish this.
What awaits you at AWH?
We are committed to our Employee Value Proposition and will deliver on our key pillars of
Growth, Balance, Contribution
and
Lifestyle.
We provide comprehensive
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📌 Senior Consumer Peer Worker - Icymhs (Victoria)
🏢 Albury Wodonga Health
📍 Victoria