Lived Experience Led - Peer Practitioner (Internal Applicants Only)

Mind Australia Limited; Geelong; On-site; AUD 60,000 - 75,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary packaging up to $15,899 p.a.

Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

Fitness Passport

Job summary

Mind Australia is seeking a Lived Experience Led – Peer Practitioner for a fixed term, part-time role in Geelong. You will use your lived experience to support recovery and wellbeing in the Peer Healing Space, working within a supportive, recovery-oriented model.

The role operates on a rotating 24/7 roster, with training provided in Intentional Peer Support, and opportunities to contribute to service development and navigation to community supports.

Qualifications

• Lived experience of mental distress and recovery is required or strongly desirable.
• Experience applying peer-based recovery approaches in service delivery.
• Training in Intentional Peer Support is essential or desirable.

Responsibilities

• Demonstrate knowledge from lived experience to support recovery-oriented practice.
• Support team to implement peer-led approaches aligned with recovery models.
• Walk alongside clients during stay, maintaining connection and trust.
• Assist with system navigation and linkages to community supports.

Skills

Lived experience

Peer work

Intentional Peer Support

Education

Certificate IV in Mental Health Peer Work

Intentional Peer Support Core/Advanced Training

Job description

• Opportunity to utilise your learnings from lived/living experience to hold space and opportunity for healing
• Fixed term Part time Opportunity
• Geelong Location

Mind strongly encourages applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, people with a lived experience of mental health challenges and recovery, and applicants from all cultures, genders, sexualities, bodies, abilities, spiritualities, ages and backgrounds.

Mind Australia is one of Australia’s largest providers of community-managed psychosocial services, supporting people experiencing mental health and wellbeing challenges to find help, hope and purpose in their lives. Operating for almost 50 years and employing more than 1,300 staff around Australia, Mind is a leading employer of people with lived experience of mental health challenges, recognising their unique ability to connect with and motivate clients and guide recovery.

About the role

The Peer Healing Space provides free short-term support in a home-like setting for people experiencing mental health crisis and distress.

This innovative trial service is designed and run by a highly experienced and skilled peer workforce. Peer Practitioners are trained to draw on the experience, knowledge and wisdom of their own mental health challenges to support others in their healing and recovery.

We are seeking a compassionate Lived Experience Led – Peer Practitioner for a fixed term, part time opportunity in the Geelong area. Working a rotating 24/7 roster, you will utilise your learnings from lived/living experience of mental health challenges, languages of pain and other intersectional identities to hold space and opportunity for healing for those accessing the Peer Healing Space.

Key responsibilities

• Demonstrate knowledge and abilities gained from both an individuals lived/living experiences, collective impacts and Lived Expertise, and be able to support the development of these approaches.
• Support your team to understand and role model the delivery of services and approaches that are consistent with recovery-oriented practice from a peer/Lived Experience perspective.
• Work within an Intentional Peer Support model to Walk alongside people during their stay, ensuring that even in the moments where a person is experiencing deep distress you continue to be honest, and open, holding connection and relationship at the heart of your interaction.
• Assist the person with system navigation and linkages to community agencies or support systems that will assist them to address life impacts and barriers to full social, educational and employment participation

What you’ll bring

• Completion of Intentional Peer Support Core and/ or Advanced Training
• Certificate IV in Mental Health Peer Work, is desirable but not required
• Completion of other relevant Consumer Discipline trainings are desired but not required eg: Consumer Perspective Supervision, Alt2Su, Hearing Voices etc.
• Have a lived/living experience of mental distress and recovery and understanding of, and ability and willingness to, contribute this Lived Expertise in working towards greater organisational impact.
• Previous experience in using lived experience and expertise in a dedicated Peer role strongly desirable

Benefits

• Salary packaging up to $15,899 p.a. allows you to allocate a portion of your pre-tax income to cover living expenses (e.g. rent, mortgage, child care, car leasing expenses etc.)
• Access to our Employee Assistance Program (EAP), provided by Converge International,for you and your immediate family members.
• Fitness Passport - Access to our corporate health and fitness program, providing you and family with access to a wide choice of fitness facilities.

Position Description

PD - Lived Experience Led and or Social and Emotional Wellbeing Peer Practitioner (LERS) 20260218.pdf

The successful applicant is required to complete comprehensive reference and background checking prior to employment, including a Working with Children Check and NDIS Workers Screening Check.