Family Peer Practitioner

Sonder; Adelaide; On-site; AUD 80,000 - 86,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary above award

Flexible working arrangements

Professional development allowance

Generous salary packaging options

Leave Loading 17.5%

Modern office spaces

Christmas Closure Bonus Leave

Training opportunities

Meal & entertainment allowances

Paid parental leave

Job summary

Sonder is seeking a Peer Practitioner at Kids Hub Playford Health Hub in Adelaide. You will draw on your lived experience of caring for someone with mental health challenges to engage meaningfully with children, young people and families, delivering strengths-based, recovery-oriented support.

Working with Kids Hub staff and partners, you will help reduce stigma and foster recovery-focused relationships, contributing to person-centred care and community wellbeing.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience working effectively in a fast-paced environment.
• Experience working in a child-friendly healthcare, community, or educational setting.
• Demonstrated experience using lived experience of mental health challenges and recovery appropriately to support children and families.
• Experience working from a strengths-based and recovery-oriented approach.
• Experience engaging collaboratively and respectfully with children, young people and families to support their goals and wellbeing.

Responsibilities

• Peer Practitioner at Kids Hub to engage with children, young people and families using a recovery-oriented approach.
• Provide person-centred care and support incorporating lived experience to reduce stigma.
• Collaborate with Kids Hub staff and consortium partners to promote recovery and connection.

Skills

Lived experience

Empathy

Education

Certificate IV in Mental Health Peer Work

Job description

Who are we?

Sonder is an inclusive, not-for-profit organisation that has been providing better quality health and support services to the South Australian community since 1993. We support thousands of people each year to access services across seven key domains – Mental Health, Aboriginal Health, Alcohol and/or other Drugs, Employment, Community Health, Disability, and Homelessness

What benefits can we offer?

When you work with Sonder, you become part of the Sonder family and that provides you with a number of benefits such as:

• Salary (excluding super) paid above award and reviewed annually
• Flexible working arrangements
• Professional development allowance provided yearly
• Generous salary packaging options - increase your take home pay by 6-12%
• 17.5% Leave Loading
• Modern and welcoming office spaces
• Christmas Closure Bonus Leave (above annual leave entitlements)
• Training opportunities
• Meal & entertainment allowances
• Paid parental leave, and much more!

Sonder are open to negotiating further benefits with the successful applicant to ensure an excellent working environment for you.

Salary Band: $80,006.68 - $85,798.44 + Super

Hours: 0.4 FTE

Contract: Fixed Term until 30/06/2027

Location: Kids Hub Playford Health Hub

More Information & Position Description via this link: https://hr.sonder.net.au/7_MMH_KHFPP.pdf

About the Role

As a Peer Practitioner at Kids Hub, you will draw on your personal and collective lived experience of caring for someone experiencing mental health distress and recovery to engage meaningfully with children, young people and families accessing the Head to Health Kids Hub. You will use a strengths-based, recovery-oriented approach to provide support, hope, inspiration and empowerment, while acting as a positive role model for recovery for people experiencing mental health challenges. Working collaboratively with Kids Hub staff and consortium partners, you will contribute to the delivery of person-centred care and support that values lived experience and promotes connection, understanding and recovery. Through your role, you will help reduce stigma associated with mental health challenges, develop mutual and reciprocal relationships with people accessing the service, and create opportunities for clients, families and staff to benefit from the collective wisdom and insights gained through lived experience.

Experience Requirements

• Demonstrated experience working effectively in a fast-paced environment.
• Experience working in a child-friendly healthcare, community, or educational setting.
• Demonstrated experience using lived experience of mental health challenges and recovery appropriately to support children and families.
• Experience working from a strengths-based and recovery-oriented approach.
• Experience engaging collaboratively and respectfully with children, young people and families to support their goals and wellbeing.

Qualification and Other Requirements

• Current or willing to obtain a Working with Children's Check (WWCC)
• Current or willing to obtain a National Police Check (NPC)
• Certificate IV in Mental Health Peer Work or equivalent or willingness to obtain

Advert Closing Date

7 October 2026

At Sonder, we strive to respond to all applicants. However, due to the high volume of applications we receive, we may only be able to contact those shortlisted for the role. Thank you for your understanding.