Your Lived Experience Can Make a Difference

Turn your experience into hope, connection and support for carers and families navigating mental health challenges.

About This Role

Your new role

As a Carer Peer Support Worker, you will use your own lived/living experience as a carer of a person experiencing mental health issues to provide hope, practical support and guidance to carers and families of consumers receiving care in an acute adult inpatient setting.

- Provide individual and group peer support, education, advocacy and information to carers and families, drawing on your own lived/living experience of supporting someone with mental health and/or addiction issues.
- Work collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team to strengthen carer and family engagement, promote recovery-focused practice and improve outcomes for consumers, carers and families.
- Develop and co-facilitate peer-led support groups, education and skills-training programs, while identifying opportunities to make inpatient services more carer- and family-inclusive.

About You We are looking for a compassionate and collaborative person who can draw on their personal lived/living experience to support and empower other carers and families throughout their mental health journey.

- You have personal lived/living experience as a carer of a person experiencing mental health issues and can use this experience appropriately to foster hope, recovery and resilience in others.
- You are confident providing peer support, advocacy, education and group facilitation, and can build respectful relationships with carers, families, consumers,



staff and community partners.
- You work effectively as part of a multidisciplinary team, understand the importance of professional boundaries and peer work values, and demonstrate a commitment to safe, respectful and inclusive practice.

Check out our quick tips and application essentials! What We Can Offer You

- We offer a family-friendly work environment that supports you in making the most of Queensland's laid-back lifestyle.
- We are renowned for teaching and research excellence with strong relations with Queensland's leading tertiary institutions.
- We want to empower you to build a long-term career, with countless opportunities to learn and grow, no matter your role
- You'll have all the benefits of working for Queensland's world-class public health system including generous leave entitlements, attractive salary and remuneration packages, salary packaging and access to relevant professional development allowances and/or leave, study and research assistance, corporate discounts and employee wellness programs.

About Us Metro South Addiction and Mental Health Services: Metro South Addiction and Mental Health Services provide inpatient,



hospital-based and community mental health and community alcohol and drug services for all age groups across a number of campuses. We embrace a forward looking, progressive approach and work collaboratively with all stakeholders in order to achieve expected outcomes. A transparent and strong consumer and carer focus is promoted with our vision being to provide our community excellence in consumer centred, integrated care across the continuum of addiction (alcohol and drug) and mental health services.

INTEGRITY | COMPASSION | ACCOUNTABILITY | RESPECT | ENGAGEMENT | EXCELLENCE

Our values were created by employees for employees to shape our culture and inspire positive interactions in the workplace. Diversity of ideas, skills, traditions, and customs is celebrated as one of our greatest strengths. Having a workforce that reflects and understands the needs and expectations of our community is important to delivering safe, kinder, and more inclusive care.

We recognise our strength comes from the diversity of our people and so we encourage people of all genders, ethnicities, ages, abilities, languages, sexual orientation, and family responsibilities to apply.

We are better together.

Further information

We are committed to building inclusive cultures in the Queensland public sector that respect and promote human rights and diversity.

Applicants are encouraged to apply online. Please review the Role Description for more information on application process requirements. Agency referrals will not be accepted for this position.

📌 Peer Worker Carer - Advanced (Queensland)
🏢 Metro South Health
📍 Queensland