Peer Worker - Burnie

Wellways Australia; City of Burnie; On-site; AUD 80,000 - 86,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary packaging benefits

Meal and Entertainment allowance

Annual leave loading

Paid parental leave after 12 months

Employee Assistance Program

Job summary

Wellways Australia is seeking a committed Peer Worker to join Connected Care across Northwest Tasmania. You will draw on your lived experience to build authentic connections, support recovery, and empower participants in their life and care.

This field-based role covers outreach across Tasmania, fostering inclusion, rights, and self-advocacy while strengthening peer practice within a multidisciplinary team.

Qualifications

• 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

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

Skills

Lived experience

Peer support

Trauma-informed practice

Education

Certificate IV in Mental Health

Mental Health Peer Work

Job description

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
• Shape high-quality, person-centred mental health care through Connected Care
• SCHADS 3B ($40.49-$43.42p/h) + Superannuation, depending on qualifications and experience

Peer Worker – Connected Care

Connected Care is seeking an experienced and passionate Peer Worker to draw on their lived experience to build authentic connections and support participants in their recovery. This is an opportunity to bring together your lived experience, personal growth and specialist peer work knowledge and skills. You will work alongside our participants to build authentic connections and support meaningful outcomes.

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 Connect 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 participant 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.

Requirements

• 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

At Wellways, you'll join a purpose-driven organisation committed to improving mental health and wellbeing and creating meaningful change for individuals, families and communities. You'll also have access to:

• 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

Join Connected Care and help create accessible, coordinated and recovery-focused mental health support for people across Northwest Tasmania.

For further information regarding this role please contact Kylie Delaney, Senior Manager via email at [e-mail]

We encourage you to apply early. Applications will be reviewed throughout the advertising period, and the position may be filled before the closing date.

Wellways is committed to the safeguarding of children and vulnerable people. Successful applicants must undergo a comprehensive screening process prior to their commencement.