Peer Worker

Stride Mental Health; Launceston; On-site; AUD 68,000 - 82,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary packaging up to $15,899 tax‑sac

Meals/entertainment allowance up to $2

Leave loading 17.5%

Stride Rewards discounts

Wellbeing leave day per year

Option to purchase extra leave days (5

Paid parental leave support

Excellent training and career dev

Job summary

Stride Mental Health in Launceston, TAS, is seeking a full-time Mental Health Peer Worker to mentor and support consumers in a recovery-oriented, person-led approach. You will draw on lived experience to promote resilience and hope during recovery.

You will build respectful professional relationships, contribute to staff learning, and advocate on system issues impacting people living with mental health challenges. This is a permanent role with SCHADS level 4 plus super and generous benefits.

Qualifications

• Lived experience of mental illness and understanding of recovery
• Willingness to share personal story to help others on their recovery journey
• Ability to foster respectful, professional relationships with consumers and colleagues
• Ability to take initiative and work independently
• Computer literacy and comfort with standard office tools
• Must be eligible to apply for a Blue Card
• Must be willing to apply for NDIS worker screening clearance

Responsibilities

• Mentor and support consumers in a person-led, recovery-oriented way to promote hope and resilience
• Build respectful, professional relationships with consumers based on supportive conversations
• Inform and contribute to staff learning and advocate on systemic issues affecting people living with mental health challenges

Skills

Empathy

Communication

Independence

Professional relationships

Computer literacy

NDIS screening readiness

Blue Card eligibility

Education

Cert IV in Mental Health Peer Work

Job description

About Us

We are leaders in mental health service delivery, specialising in working with adults and young people, and in early childhood intervention. Stride is a name that expresses our ambition – it’s a name that’s purposeful and shows awareness of the important role we play in the recovery journey.

About The Service

The Medicare Mental Health Services are free and you do not need an appointment, referral or Medicare card to visit a Medicare Mental Health Centre. The new services in Devonport, Burnie and Outer Hobart are co-funded by the Australian and Tasmanian Governments, to provide a streamlined approach to support better mental health and social wellbeing across the country.

The service is tailored to the needs of the community in Tasmania and provides a combination of peer-led recovery and clinical support.

The Medicare Mental Health Centre provides a safe, welcoming and supportive environment for people experiencing psychological distress, allowing them to:

• Identify alternatives to presenting to the Emergency Department
• Access support from trained mental health professionals within their community

On Offer

• Based in Launceston TAS
• Full time, permanent role
• Paying on SCHADs level 4 plus Super
• Salary Packaging options (up to $15,899 tax free!)
• Meals and entertainment allowance of up to $2,650!
• Leave loading at 17.5%
• Stride Rewards – access to discounts from 100s of retailers (fashion, food and fitness)
• One paid wellbeing leave day per year
• Purchase up to 5 additional leave days in a 12 month period (pro rata entitlement if part-time)
• Paid parental leave support
• Supportive team environment
• Excellent training and career development

Role Overview

• Mentor and support consumers in a person-led, strengths focused and recovery-oriented way to support hope and promote resilience, and who models the possibility and longevity of recovery;
• Build respectful, professional and appropriate relationships with consumers based around conversations which draw from personal experiences and emotions to support people in their journey of recovery;
• Inform and contribute to employees learning and service understanding, and advocate on systemic issues impacting people living with mental health issues.

Requirements

• Cert IV in Mental Health Peer Work, or a willingness to complete
• Lived experience of your own mental illness and a rich understanding of your own processes of recovery and proactivity in managing wellbeing
• A willingness to purposefully use your own story to help others further their own understanding of recovery
• Ability to foster and maintain respectful, professional relationships with consumers, staff and organisations
• Ability to demonstrate initiative and work independently
• Computer literacy
• Must be eligible to apply/currently hold a Bluecard
• Must hold/be willing to apply for NDIS worker screening clearance

Stride is committed to the safeguarding of children and vulnerable people. All applicants applying for roles within Stride must undergo required screening processes prior to their successful appointment.

Stride is an inclusive workplace and we encourage applications from diverse backgrounds in order to enhance the depth of cultural diversity and insight within our workforce.

This includes but is not limited to people with a lived-experience of mental health recovery, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, LGBTQIA+, and people with disabilities.

Closing date for applications: Applications will be viewed and actioned upon receipt, with a final closing date of 07 November 2026. Please note the closing date may end sooner if a sufficient number of applications have been received.

For any queries please email [e-mail]