Health Education Officer, Peer Support Worker SPOT - Tweed Valley

Northern NSW Local Health District; Cudgen; On-site; AUD 68,000 - 98,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary packaging and novated leasing

Fitness discounts

Growth – professional and personal dev

Job summary

Northern NSW Local Health District in Cudgen is seeking a Peer Worker to join the Suicide Prevention Outreach Team (SPOT). This permanent part-time role (32 hours/week) focuses on holistic, trauma-informed, recovery-oriented crisis support for people experiencing suicidality, working with a multidisciplinary team and external agencies as needed.

Ideal candidates bring lived experience of recovery from suicidality and a commitment to authentic engagement, with opportunities for professional

Qualifications

• Peer workers draw on their lived experience of recovery from suicidality.
• Provide authentic engagement and support to individuals experiencing suicidality.
• Work in a team to deliver rapid crisis support.

Responsibilities

• The Peer Worker will work in a team to provide holistic recovery oriented, trauma informed, and evidence based rapid crisis support to people experiencing suicidality.
• Peer Support Workers are integral members of the team and draw on their lived experience to provide authentic engagement and hope.

Skills

Lived experience

Peer support

Trauma informed

Recovery oriented

Education

Non-Grad or Grad

Job description

Northern NSW Local Health District – Cudgen NSW

Make a new start in your career and life. Join a welcoming, supportive healthcare community, with professional development opportunities + more!

Employment Type:PermanentPart Time
Position Classification:Health Education Officer, Non-Grad or Grad
Remuneration:$67,584 - $97,733 per annum, pro rata
Hours Per Week:32
Requisition ID:REQ704851

About the role

The Suicide Prevention Outreach Team (SPOT) is a NSW Health initiative that aims to reduce deaths by suicide and suicide attempts. The Peer Worker will work in a team to provide holistic recovery oriented, trauma informed, and evidence based rapid crisis support to people experiencing suicidality. This may include crisis response with internal or external agencies.

Make a new start in your career and life. Join a welcoming, supportive healthcare community, with professional development opportunities + more!

Employment Type:PermanentPart Time
Position Classification:Health Education Officer, Non-Grad or Grad
Remuneration:$67,584 - $97,733 per annum, pro rata
Hours Per Week:32
Requisition ID:REQ704851

About the role

The Suicide Prevention Outreach Team (SPOT) is a NSW Health initiative that aims to reduce deaths by suicide and suicide attempts. The Peer Worker will work in a team to provide holistic recovery oriented, trauma informed, and evidence based rapid crisis support to people experiencing suicidality. This may include crisis response with internal or external agencies.

Peer Support Workers are integral members of the team and draw on their lived experience of recovery from suicidality to provide authentic engagement and support and instill confidence and hope in others about the journey of recovery.

About Northern NSW Local Health District (NNSWLHD)

We are a healthcare community, caring for the people of the Northern Rivers. We understand that high quality healthcare and quality of life go hand in hand. Our hospitals, and our community health and multipurpose services are a well-balanced modern network truly connecting the communities we serve across the Tweed, Richmond, and Clarence Valleys.

If you care about high quality healthcare and quality of life, we encourage you to join us.

You care. We care. Learn more about NNSWLHD here.

Relocating to the region?

The Welcome Experience in the Northern Rivers connects you and your family with local people and local resources to help you settle in and feel at home in your new community faster.

Learn more at: www.nsw.gov.au/welcomeexperience

Join our team and you’ll enjoy:

• Salary packaging and novated leasing – increase your take-home pay
• Fitness discounts – focus on your health and wellbeing
• Growth – access to professional and personal development
• Team culture – work in a collaborative, flexible and supportive team environment
• Opportunities to start or build a career, or re-enter the workforce

Join the team enriching health in millions of ways every day.

Applications Close: 16 November 2026

NNNSWLHD embraces the diverse skills and perspectives that our people bring to the workplace. We foster inclusiveness and diversity to help us deliver quality care to our community.

NNSWLHD is committed to reconciliation and strongly encourages Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to apply for this position. All applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people will be viewed most favourably.

For help with your application to this role visitStepping Up, our online recruitment resource for Aboriginal people.

To apply for this position, you must be an Australian citizen or permanent resident, or be able to independently, legally live and work in Australia. For more information, please seewww.homeaffairs.gov.au.

This is a Category A position. To be employed by NSW Health you are required to provide evidence of vaccination to comply with the NSW Health Occupational Assessment, Screening & Vaccination against Specified Infectious Diseases Policy (PD2024_015).

You may be subject to a probationary period of six months from the date of appointment to this position.

This recruitment may be used to create an Eligibility List for similar roles in the future.