Peer Worker - Burnie

Wellways Australia Limited; City of Burnie; In loco; AUD 56.000 - 60.000; Tempo pieno

Vantaggi offerti da questo lavoro

Salary packaging

Meal allowance

Annual leave loading

Parental leave

Employee assistance program

Professional development

Descrizione del lavoro

Connected Care role within Wellways Australia Limited delivers outreach across Tasmania to adults and families, focusing on recovery-oriented, lived-experience informed care.

You will work field-based with a multidisciplinary team, building trusting relationships and facilitating community connections to support participation and wellbeing.

Competenze

• Certificate IV in Mental Health, Mental Health Peer Work, or Community Services (completed or enrolled).
• Personal lived experience of mental health challenges or engagement with mental health services.
• Understanding of peer work values and principles.
• Recovery-oriented and trauma-informed practice awareness.

Mansioni

• Develop mutually respectful relationships that create opportunities for connection and growth.
• Use lived experience to foster trust and meaningful connection.
• Support participants to explore identity, wellbeing, purpose and meaning.
• Facilitate connections to community, culture, family and natural supports for belonging and healing.
• Adapt peer support approaches reflecting participants' strengths, goals and relationships.

Conoscenze

Lived experience

Peer work values

Formazione

Certificate IV in Mental Health

Descrizione del lavoro

About Connected Care

Connected Care is a statewide, integrated mental health service delivered by Wellways in partnership with Stride Mental Health and Clarity Health Care and commissioned by Primary Health Tasmania (PHT). Supporting adults aged 18 years and over, Connected Care provides free mental health care and support through a ‘no wrong door’ approach and stepped-care model. Our centralised statewide after-hours service provides additional access to support outside core service hours.

About you

In this role, you will support our peer workforce across the Connected Care, strengthening peer practice and capability, fostering a inclusive team culture, and ensuring recovery-oriented and lived experience-informed approaches across service delivery. This is a field-based role, delivering outreach support across Tasmania to participants and their families. You will support participants to understand and exercise their rights, strengthen self-advocacy and identity barriers to choice and autonomy and active participation in their own life, care and support.

Responsibilities

• Develop mutually respectful relationships that create opportunities for connection, shared learning, growth and new possibilities
• Use lived experience intentionally and purposefully to foster trust, reciprocity, learning and meaningful connection
• Support participants to explore identity, wellbeing, purpose and meaning
• Facilitate connections to community, culture, family, relationships, valued roles and natural supports that strengthen belonging, wellbeing and healing
• Adapt peer support approaches in partnership with participants to reflect their strengths, preferences, goals, relationships and aspirations

You will need

• Certificate IV in Mental Health, Mental Health Peer Work, or Community Services (completed or enrolled), or equivalent lived experience workforce knowledge, skills and practical experience
• Personal lived experience of mental health challenges, distress and/or engagement with mental health service
• Demonstrated understanding of peer work values and principles
• A strong understanding of recovery-oriented and trauma-informed practice
• Right to work in Australia
• A current Driver Licence and willingness to travel as required
• Satisfactory National Police Record Check
• International Police Check (if applicable)
• Current Working with Vulnerable People/Working with Children Check and NDIS Worker Screening Check
• NDIS Worker Orientation Module Certificate – Quality, Safety and You – free online course

What we offer

• A supportive and collaborative multidisciplinary environment
• Opportunities for professional development and career growth
• An inclusive workplace where diversity and lived experience are valued
• Paid Cultural Leave
• Salary packaging benefits
• Meal and Entertainment allowance through salary packaging
• Annual leave loading
• Paid parental leave after 12 months of ongoing employment
• Employee Assistance Program for you and your family

Culture

We’re passionate about our work, which is enjoyable, challenging and rewarding. All of our teams work to ensure everyone can imagine and achieve their hopes and potential. We know that people are unique and the experts on their life and are not defined by impairments, diagnosis or labels. We aim to specifically promote safety and inclusivity for LGBTIQ+ and First Nations communities.

At Wellways, we celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued, respected and empowered to contribute. We warmly welcome applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, people with lived experience of mental health challenges or disability, people from multicultural backgrounds, and people who identify as LGBTIQA+.

We recognise that diverse experiences and perspectives strengthen our workforce and the communities we support. Join us to support a multidisciplinary clinical team across Northwest Tasmania.

All applicants applying for roles within Wellways must undergo a screening process prior to their successful appointment.

Wellways is committed to the safeguarding of children and vulnerable people.

Salary and Benefits

SCHADS 3B ($40.49-$43.42p/h) + Superannuation, depending on qualifications and experience.

Applications Close

02/11/2026