Peer Worker, MMHC Tamworth

Grand Pacific Health Ltd; Tamworth; On-site; AUD 55,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary packaging up to $15,899 per anu

Paid parental leave

Paid mental health leave

Employee Assistance Program

Job summary

Grand Pacific Health is partnering with Hunter Primary Care to build the Tamworth Medicare Mental Health Centre. We are seeking a Peer Worker with lived mental health experience to help shape the service from the start.

This full-time fixed-term role runs until 30 June 2029 with potential extension. You’ll support crisis services, assessment, therapy and care coordination within a supportive multidisciplinary team.

Qualifications

• Cert IV qualification in Mental Health Peer Work (or commencement or willingness to work towards qualifications within the first six months of employment).
• Direct lived experience of mental health challenges and/or service use as well as periods of healing and personal recovery.
• Commitment to safely and purposely share lived experience to engender hope and support others on their personal recovery journey.
• Demonstrated ability to work cooperatively in a team environment, and lead and guide staff through influence

Responsibilities

• Provide peer support across crisis, assessment, therapy and care coordination.
• Engage with participants to support recovery journeys.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary team to deliver person-centred care.

Skills

Lived experience

Teamwork

Communication

Staff guidance

Education

Cert IV in Mental Health Peer Work

Job description

Bring your skills, compassion and fresh ideas to a brand-new service.

Be a part of our team at the Tamworth Medicare Mental Health Centre and help decide how care works here from the start.

Be yourself, because together we can make a difference.

What's in it for you?

• Attractive remuneration plus up to $15,900 in NFP salary packaging — more take-home pay, less tax
• Brand-new purpose-built hub in Tamworth
• Full time, with ADO accrual for full-time staff
• Work alongside a genuinely supportive multidisciplinary team, backed by an organisation that invests in your development
• Real variety — crisis support, assessment, therapy, and care coordination, not just one narrow lane

Hunter Primary Care is a not-for-profit committed to improving health outcomes and reducing disadvantage across the communities we serve. In partnership with Grand Pacific Health (GPH), we're building the new Tamworth/Armidale MMHC from the ground up — and we need Peer Workers who want to help shape it.

What you'll do

This position is full-time, fixed term until 30 June 2029, with the possibility of extension.

As a Peer Worker, your own lived experience of life changing mental health challenges, mental health service use, as well as periods of healing and personal recovery will be critical to support people accessing the program with their own lived experience of the same.

What you'll need

• Cert IV qualification in Mental Health Peer Work (or commencement or willing to work towards qualifications within the first six months of employment).
• Direct lived experience of life changing mental health challenges and/or mental health service use as well as periods of healing and personal recovery
• Commitment to safely and purposely share lived experience to engender hope and support others on their personal recovery journey
• Demonstrated ability to work cooperatively in a team environment, and lead and guide staff through influence
• Salary packaging up to $15,899 per annum
• Ongoing professional development, supervision, and study/professional development leave
• Paid parental leave
• Paid mental health leave
• Employee Assistance Program

Applications close: 15 November 2026. however shortlisting will commence immediately and we reserve the right to close this vacancy once a suitable candidate is found.

Questions?

Contact: Cate Johnston, Business Growth Project Officer on *********@gph.org.au or 0427 428 ***.

We welcome applications from people with lived experience of mental health, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, the LGBTQI community, multicultural communities, and people with a disability.