Kids Hub: Mental Health 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

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.