AOD Wellbeing Navigator Peer

Wellways; Greater Shepparton; On-site; AUD 60,000 - 75,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary packaging up to $15,899

17.5% leave loading

Meal and Entertainment allowance up to

Meal and Entertainment allowance up to

Paid parental leave after 12 months

Employee Assistance Program

Job summary

Wellways is seeking an AOD Wellbeing Navigator Peer in the Greater Shepparton region. You will draw on your lived experience of substance use to build respectful relationships, provide peer support, and help participants access services that matter to them.

You will work as part of a multidisciplinary team, delivering one-on-one support, group sessions, and care planning. The role emphasizes recovery, hope, and community connections, with a values-based, inclusive workplace.

Qualifications

• Personal lived experience of substance use or addiction and recovery.
• Ability to use lived experience to build connection with empathy and understanding.
• Willingness to undertake required training and use of experience in support.

Responsibilities

• Provide intentional, strengths-based peer support including AOD peer support.
• Offer one-on-one support and care planning.
• Facilitate group peer sessions to build connection and confidence.
• Support engagement and self-advocacy with clinical services.
• Build relationships with local AOD and community support services.

Skills

Lived experience

Empathy

Communication

Boundaries

Education

Certificate IV in Mental Health / AOD / Mental Health Peer Work / Community Services

Job description

About the Opportunity

Wellways is committed to reconciliation, lived experience and inclusivity. We strongly encourage and warmly welcome people from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, people with a lived experience of mental health and disability and people who identify as LGBTIQA+ to apply. Even if you only meet some of the criteria, we’d love to hear from you.

• Utilise your real-life experience to engage, encourage and support people in our community


• Part time (8 days / fortnight), parental leave cover opportunity to join a multidisciplinary team until July 2027!


• Not for profit, values-based company + salary packaging up to $15,899 + 17.5% leave loading

Wellways, in partnership with APMHA Healthcare and GV Health, is working together across Greater Shepparton, Strathbogie, and Moira to strengthen mental health and wellbeing support across the region. Together, we’re aiming to offer services that meet the unique needs of individuals in our community, whenever and wherever they are needed. Lived experience, inclusivity, and genuine collaboration are at the heart of everything we do.

As an AOD Wellbeing Navigator Peer, you’ll draw on your own lived experience of substance use or addiction, recovery, service use and personal growth to build mutual and respectful relationships with participants. You’ll provide intentional AOD peer support and help people connect with the services, supports and community connections that matter to them. You’ll use your lived experience thoughtfully and purposefully to create opportunities for shared learning, hope and recovery, while supporting people to recognise their own strengths, choices and possibilities.

Key elements of your new role will include:

• Provide intentional, strengths-based peer support, including AOD peer support


• Offer one-on-one support and care planning


• Facilitate group peer sessions to build connection and confidence


• Supporting people to recognise and build on their own strengths, knowledge and capacity


• Supporting engagement and self-advocacy with clinical services


• Building strong relationships with local AOD and other community support services

About You

You have personal lived experience with alcohol or substance use, and you’ve navigated your own recovery journey and/or engagement with AOD services. Through this experience, along with formal study or training, you’ve gained valuable insight that allows you to support others with empathy and understanding.

You share your story in a safe, respectful, and empowering way; helping others to feel seen, heard, and understood. You instil hope and support people in building connections and reinforce the strengths they already bring to their own recovery journey.

If your lived experience is at the heart of how you connect with and support others in our community, we’d love to get to know you!

To be successful in this role, you will need:

• Personal lived experience of substance use or addiction and recovery and/or engagement with AOD services, together with the ability to intentionally and safely use lived experience knowledge to build connection, mutual learning, hope and possibility, is an inherent requirement of this role
  This role is designated for a person with personal lived experience pursuant to section 28 of the Equal Opportunity Act 2010 (Vic)


• Certificate IV in Mental Health, AOD, Mental Health Peer Work or Community Services (completed or in progress), or a willingness to undertake it, or equivalent lived experience workforce knowledge, skills and practical experience


• 100 points of identification


• Evidence of right to work in Australia


• Satisfactory National Police Check, Working with Children Check and NDIS Worker Screening Check, or willingness to undertake


• NDIS Workers Orientation module certificate – free online course

Mental Health and Wellbeing Locals are free, voluntary, and easy to access, with no referral required. Importantly, these new services will be delivered on the basis of ‘how can we help? and a ‘no wrong door’ approach, focused on giving choice and control over how people in our community want to receive support.

This service aims to make it easier for community members to access the support they need, closer to home and family, carers, and support networks.

Most importantly, Mental Health and Wellbeing Locals are safe spaces for everyone.

What we will offer you

• A purpose driven culture where people can thrive, everyone is respected, and differences are valued


• An equitable, diverse, and socially inclusive work environment


• Salary packaging up to $15,899 enables you to spend a portion of your salary before it is taxed to pay for things like rent, mortgage repayments, car leasing


• Meal and Entertainment allowance via salary packaging up to $2,650 per annum


• Receive 17.5% leave loading every time you take annual leave


• Paid parental leave after 12 months of ongoing employment


• Access for you and your family to our Employee Assistance Program

We’d love to get to know you!

Wellways is committed to the safeguarding of children and vulnerable people. Successful applicants must undergo a comprehensive screening process prior to their commencement

Job Description Summary

Rewarding opportunity to work alongside individuals, carers and families; to ensure they feel heard and supported in our community.

Culture

We’re passionate about ourwork, whichis enjoyable, challenging and rewarding.Allofourteamswork toensure everyone can imagine and achieve their hopes and potential. We know that people are unique and the experts on their life and are not defined by impairments, diagnosis or labels.We aim to specifically promote safety and inclusivity for LGBTIQ+ and First Nations communities.

Applications Close

08/11/2026