Peer Worker - Burnie

wellways; City of Burnie; On-site; AUD 56,000 - 60,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid cultural leave

Salary packaging benefits

Meal and entertainment allowance

Annual leave loading

Parental leave after 12 months

Job summary

Wellways is seeking a dedicated Peer Worker for Connected Care to support adults with mental health needs across Northwest Tasmania. The role focuses on building authentic connections using lived experience to assist recovery and engagement in care.

You will work field-based across Tasmania, helping participants understand their rights, advocate for themselves, and participate actively in their own life and care plans.

Qualifications

• Certificate IV in Mental Health or equivalent lived experience
• Personal lived experience of mental health challenges
• Understanding of peer work values and principles
• Strong recovery-oriented and trauma-informed practice
• Right to work in Australia
• Current Driver Licence and willingness to travel
• Satisfactory National Police Record Check
• International Police Check if applicable
• Current Working with Vulnerable People/Working with Children Check
• NDIS Worker Orientation Module Certificate – Quality, Safety and You (online)

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain mutually respectful relationships to connect participants
• Use lived experience to foster trust and meaningful connections
• Support participants to explore identity, wellbeing and purpose
• Link participants to community, culture and natural supports
• Adapt peer support approaches to reflect participant strengths and goals

Skills

Lived experience

Peer work values

Recovery-oriented practice

Trauma-informed practice

Driver Licence

Education

Certificate IV in Mental Health

NDIS Worker Orientation Module Certificate

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.

In this role, you will:

• 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

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].