Senior Peer Worker, Mental Health, Drug and Alcohol Service

Barwon Mental Health, Drugs and Alcohol Services (MHDAS) has a number of exciting opportunities for Senior Peer Workers to join our teams across a range of community and residential services. Current opportunities include positions within CRF/PARC, Hospital in the Home (HITH), Outreach, the Geelong West and Corio Community Mental Health Teams with part-time appointments ranging from 56 hours per fortnight to 64 hours per fortnight.

As a Senior Peer Worker, you will draw on your personal lived experience of accessing tertiary mental health and/or alcohol and other drug services, together with your professional lived experience expertise, to support consumers in their mental health and recovery journeys. Through individual peer support and the facilitation or co-facilitation of peer and therapeutic groups, you will promote recovery principles including hope, choice, self-determination and connectedness.

Working as a valued member of a multidisciplinary team, you will bring a lived experience perspective that complements the professional knowledge and skills of other team members. You will also contribute to strengthening the understanding and application of peer work across MHDAS through education, service development and participation in the development of programs, policy and models of care.

Key responsibilities

Use your lived experience and professional peer work expertise to provide individual and group-based peer support that promotes hope, choice, self-determination, connection and recovery.

Provide expert lived experience perspectives within multidisciplinary teams, contributing to service development, programs, policy and models of care that are responsive to the needs and experiences of consumers.

Work with a high level of independence while providing guidance, orientation and mentoring to Peer Workers, and championing greater understanding and utilisation of peer work across MHDAS.

About you





Demonstrated ability to use personal lived experience of tertiary mental health and/or alcohol and other drug services safely and purposefully within a professional peer work framework.

Experience in peer work, with the capability to mentor and support other Peer Workers and contribute a strong lived experience perspective to service improvement and multidisciplinary practice.

Strong interpersonal skills, an understanding of peer work principles and the ability to work both independently and collaboratively within multidisciplinary environments.

Please note Barwon Health will only contact you via our official email and never use unconventional means, such as text messaging or other services.

Excellent working conditions and a strong sense of job satisfaction

A vibrant staff wellbeing program and access to our 24/7 Employee Assistance Program

Attractive salary packaging benefits

Living expenses capped at $9,010

Meals and entertainment capped at $2,650

Diversity and Inclusion

Barwon Health is an inclusive and welcoming employer, committed to reflecting the diverse communities we serve. We value and celebrate people of all genders, sexual orientations, cultural backgrounds, faiths, abilities, family structures, and identities, and encourage applications from Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander peoples, people with disability, culturally and linguistically diverse communities, and members of the LGBTIQA+ community.

Child Safety

We are strongly committed to the safety and wellbeing of all children and young people. Click here for further information on the Victorian Government’s Child Secure Standards: About Child Safe Standards | Victorian Government (www.vic.gov.au)

Additional information

If you need adjustments to participate in the recruitment process, please contact us at ************@barwonhealth.org.au

All appointments are subject to:

Satisfactory Police Record Check

Immunisation Status Clearance

Working with Children Check (if applicable)

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📌 Senior Peer Worker, Mental Health, Drug and Alcohol Service (Melbourne)
🏢 Barwon Health
📍 Melbourne