Peer Worker - Geelong Medicare Mental Health Centre

For all people in Australia living with mental health and wellbeing challenges to live a life that is meaningful to them.

- Full time Maximum Term until 30 June 2027
- Monday to Friday Shift work
- Classification: SCHADS Level 3 with a salary range of $80,087 - $85,877per annum pro rata + Superannuation
- Salary packaging arrangements providing tax benefits available for living and entertainment expenses increasing your take home income where part of your wage is paid tax free each pay, savings thousands in tax each year

About your new role

The Geelong Medicare Mental Health Centre (GMMHC) provides the Geelong community an alternative service to attend when experiencing mental health crisis. The centre provides free, immediate, short and medium-term care to adults over the age of 18 years with the aim of making it easier for anyone living in the Greater City of Geelong catchment to access equitable, free, and quality mental health support. We offer a welcoming place for people to access mental healthinformation, services and supports from qualified professionals (clinical and lived experience staff) over extended hours.

Service delivery will reflect principals of Trauma Informed Care and Recovery Oriented practice. The GMMHC service will provide a holistic approach to care, addressing a range of social, physical, and emotional needs informed by the Collaborative Relational Practice (CRP) and supported by best practice in evidence-based and evidence informed care. The GMMHC service has a strong focus on lived experience and provides support via a high engagement,



multi-disciplinary crisis model.

Peer Workers (PWs) draw on their own life-changing lived experience of distress, trauma and/or substance use, and their journey of recovery and healing, to support consumers who face similar challenges to their health and wellbeing.

Guided by Intentional Peer Support (IPS) and the National Lived Experience Workforce Guidelines, PWs provide consumer-led emotional, social, and service support through one-on-one peer support, facilitating peer-led groups, and transdisciplinary teamwork. In their work, they emphasise connection, mutuality and support consumers to explore worldviews and move toward what is meaningful to the consumer.

As well as purposeful use of personal lived experience, PWs draw on the broader collective Lived Experience history and social movements to explore and understand the impacts of stigma, discrimination and systemic harm. PWs play a vital role in continuous service improvement by integrating and elevating lived experience perspectives.

Drawing on strong relational and self-reflection skills, PWs apply the Lived Experience Lens perspective individual relationships,team processes, and service collaborations. As key members of transdisciplinary teams,



PWs compliment and enrich the professional knowledge and skills of staff from other disciplines.

To support practice and professional growth, PWs engage in line management support, discipline specific supervision (where available), co-reflection, and peer community of practice. These structures nurture confidence, connection, and the development of peer work practice.

About Neami National

We’re Neami. We’re big believers in everyone having the opportunity to live a full life. We support people to achieve wellbeing and mental health outcomes that matter to them. We provide services across Australia for mental health and wellbeing, housing and homelessness, and suicide prevention.

For some people, this means having a stronger sense of self. For others, it may mean nurturing relationships or building the confidence to tackle tomorrow. We support people to improve their quality of life in a way that suits them.

We’re proud to support 34,000+ people living with mental health challenges each year across Australia and offer services over 40 different Indigenous lands.

Values

Together with our vision and purpose, our values define who we are and guide the way we operate. They are fundamental to our identity, and we align all our actions with them.

- Connecting
- Learning
- Belonging

What will Neami offer

- Generous leave entitlements including Gratis Leave, Wellness Leave and Parental Leave
- Optional monthly Accrued Day Off (ADO) for full-time staff
- 17.5% Annual Leave Loading
- Flexible work arrangements are available for maintai

📌 Peer Worker (Geelong)
🏢 Neami National
📍 Geelong