Walk alongside people on their mental health recovery journeys and support them to achieve their hopes and dreams!

Flourish Australia has multiple exciting opportunities for Peer Workers to join our Tamworth Accomodation teams.

The positions available are:

- Part time (45.6 hours & 60.8 hours)
- Working a 24/7 rotating roster including weekday, weekend, evening, and active overnight shifts
- Based in Tamworth
- Attractive hourly rate equivalent to $40.49 - $43.42/hour + Super + Salary Packaging!

About the Opportunities

As a Peer Worker, you will work in the community to support people accessing our services who have a lived experience of mental health challenges to achieve their hopes and dreams. Your personal lived experience of mental health challenges, trauma, recovery and navigating services is recognised as a form of Lived Experience Expertise. You use this expertise intentionally, safely, and purposefully to build relationships grounded in mutuality, shared understanding, respect, and hope. Through authentic connection and values-aligned self-disclosure, you support people to explore their strengths, rights, choices, and self-defined recovery goals, always honouring their roles as the expert in their own life.

On a day to day basis you will:

- Effectively and appropriately hold recovery and social citizenship conversations with people who access our services in order to connect with them, support them and build reciprocity, via mutual understanding, trust and shared experience.
- Effectively and appropriately guide and support each individual in their recovery and be strengths, ability and possibility focused, whilst ensuring they are the leads in their own recovery journey.




- Effectively contribute to decreasing stigma and discrimination around having a lived experience of a mental health challenge.
- Support the person to access activities and opportunities that promote independence.
- Support skill development at every prospect through self-directed learning, information, training, and education.

Fullcriteria and position description areavailable within the application.

The Benefits

- Level 3 (SCHCADS) on the Flourish Australia Enterprise Agreement (2018)
- Tax-Free Salary Packaging available up to $15,900 + additional $2,650 for entertainment benefits such as meals and holiday accommodation
- Generous leave provisions including17.5% leave loading + 2 additional days of personal leave + extra day paid leave over Christmas/Recent Year + paid primary carer parental leave
- Family-friendly andflexible working conditions
- Opportunities forcareer progression,professional development and training such asMental Health First Aid and ASIST
- Employee Assistance Programfor confidential wellbeing support
- Regularsupervision (reflective practice), ongoing 1:1mentoring, strongteam supportand acomprehensive inductionprogram
- Workplace Community Groupssuch as ourRainbow Networkfor LGBTQ+ staff members & allies andYarnUpfor Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander staff members




- PersonalFleet pricing discountswith our preferred automotive supplier
- Employee discounts at 400+ popular retailers(Woolworths, Expedia, Myer, Kmart etc)

About You

You are passionate about supporting people on their recovery journey and believe in the value of lived experience. You bring a recovery-oriented mindset, strong interpersonal skills, and a commitment to creating inclusive, person-centred outcomes.

To be successful in this role, you will have:

- A Certificate IV or above in a relevant field OR a minimum of 2-years full-time experience working in the human services field (as recognised by Flourish Australia).
- A personal lived experience of a mental health challenge and recovery.
- Willing and able to effectively, respectfully, and appropriately use your lived experience of a mental health challenge and recovery.
- Demonstrated alignment to Flourish Australia’s values.
- A current Australian Driver’s Licence.

Our positions are open to all suitably qualified applicants. We have a strong commitment to the participation of people with lived experience of mental health challenges in our workforce. We value diversity and encourage applications from suitably qualified people from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander backgrounds, people from Culturally and Linguistically Diverse communities, LGBTQ+ communities and mature age candidates.

Applications close 5pm, 26th October.

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📌 Peer Workers (North Tamworth)
🏢 Flourish Australia
📍 North Tamworth