Peer Worker - Launceston

Wellways Australia Limited; City of Launceston; Sur place; AUD 80 000 - 86 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Multidisciplinary environment

Professional development

Inclusive workplace

Paid cultural leave

Salary packaging benefits

Meal and entertainment allowance

Annual leave loading

Paid parental leave after 12 months

Employee Assistance Program

Résumé du poste

Wellways Australia Limited in Launceston, TAS, is hiring a Peer Worker for Connected Care. This field-based role supports adults with mental health challenges, drawing on lived experience to build authentic connections and recovery-oriented support.

The role is full-time until November 2027, with SCHADS level 3B pay ($40.49-$43.42 per hour) plus superannuation, depending on qualifications and experience. You'll work across Northern Tasmania to deliver outreach and person-centred care.

Qualifications

• Certificate IV in Mental Health, Mental Health Peer Work, or Community Services (completed)
• Personal lived experience of mental health challenges
• Understanding of peer work values and principles
• Recovery-oriented and trauma-informed practice
• Right to work in Australia
• Current Driver Licence and willingness to travel
• Satisfactory National Police Record Check
• NDIS Worker Orientation Module Certificate – Quality, Safety and You

Responsabilités

• 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.

Connaissances

Lived experience

Recovery-oriented practice

Trauma-informed approach

Travel willingness

Formation

Certificate IV in Mental Health, Mental Health Peer Work, or Community Services

Description du poste

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 Northern Tasmania.

Full-time position in Launceston TAS till Nov 2027.

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.

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 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 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

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 Northern Tasmania.

Job Description Summary

Contract End Date 01/11/2027

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.

Successful applicants must undergo a comprehensive screening process prior to their commencement.

Applications Close

02/11/2026

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.

About Wellways

Wellways is a leading not-for-profit mental health and disability support organisation operating in Queensland, New South Wales, the Australian Capital Territory, Victoria and Tasmania. Our services span mental health, disability and community care and reach more than 7000 people each year. Our 2000 staff work to create an inclusive community where everyone can imagine and achieve their hopes and potential. We connect people, strengthen families and transform communities for individuals of all ages experiencing disabilities or challenges to their social and emotional wellbeing.

Our Practice Principles guide how we work and interact with participants and partners, with our colleagues and within our communities. To see our Practice Principles poster visit https://media.wellways.org/inline-files/ww383_Practice_Principles.pdf

Wellways Australia Limited is committed to the safeguarding of children and vulnerable people. All applicants applying for roles within Wellways must undergo a screening process prior to their successful appointment.