Youth Peer Worker

Stride Mental Health; Geelong; On-site; AUD 42,000 - 62,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary packaging up to $15,899

Meals and entertainment allowance

Leave loading 17.5%

Stride Rewards – discounts

Wellbeing day

Training and development

Remote area benefits

Job summary

Stride Mental Health is recruiting a part‑time, non‑clinical support worker based in Armstrong Creek, VIC. You will assist service users, review needs, and support independence while maintaining accurate records and contributing to outcome measures.

We offer an excellent base salary with super, salary packaging up to $15,899, meals/entertainment allowance, 17.5% leave loading, wellbeing day and strong training opportunities in a supportive team environment.

Qualifications

• Minimum of a Cert IV in Community Services or related discipline.
• Experience supporting people with mental health in recovery‑oriented settings.
• Knowledge of Indigenous cultures and ability to engage respectfully.
• Eligibility to hold WWCC and willingness to apply for NDIS screening.

Responsibilities

• Provide regular, flexible, non‑clinical support to service users.
• Help review client needs, monitor activities in Support Plans.
• Assist clients toward independence with information, training and resources.
• Routinely perform outcome measures and data collection.
• Record time, sign off activity, and maintain case notes in the system.
• Participate in Communities of Practice and professional development.

Skills

Non-clinical support

Data collection

Client advocacy

Team collaboration

Education

Cert IV in Community Services

Bachelor/Diploma (preferred)

Job description

About Us

We’re leaders in mental health service delivery, specialising in working with adults and young people, and in early childhood intervention.

About Us

We’re leaders in mental health service delivery, specialising in working with adults and young people, and in early childhood intervention.

About Us

We’re leaders in mental health service delivery, specialising in working with adults and young people, and in early childhood intervention. Stride is a name that expresses our ambition – it’s a name that’s purposeful and shows awareness of the important role we play in the recovery journey.

Our Service

headspace Centres act as a one-stop-shop for young people who need help with mental health, physical health, alcohol and other drugs and/or work and study support. The key principle within headspace is a commitment to providing age appropriate, youth friendly services which are engaging and acceptable to young people and that are congruent with the stage of development of the individual.

On Offer

• Based in Armstrong Creek, VIC
• Permanent part-time (2 days a week)
• Excellent Base salary plus Super
• Salary Packaging options (up to $15,899 tax free!!) May also be eligible for remote area benefits!
• Meals and entertainment allowance of up to $2,650!!
• Leave loading at 17.5%
• Stride Rewards – access to discounts from 100s of retailers (fashion, food and fitness)
• One paid wellbeing leave day per year
• Purchase up to 5 additional leave days in a 12 month period (pro rata entitlement if part-time
• Excellent training and development
• Supportive team environment

Role Overview

• Provide regular, flexible, low level non-clinical support to service users, and assist them to review their needs and resources, monitor activities identified in client Support Plans.
• Enable clients to achieve independence as far as possible in all areas of their life by providing appropriate information, opportunity, training and support
• Routinely perform Outcome Measures, and other data collection.
• Effective use of Supportability including self-management of rosters, record time and sign off of client activity, input journal entries and case notes.
• Provide support (that is sensitive, client focused and community orientated), advocacy and information to our clients with the use of the recovery process
• Attendance and participation in Communities of Practice, professional development and Critical incident management activities.

Requirements

• Minimum of a Cert IV in a Community services related discipline (ideally a completed Bachelors or Diploma).
• To have experienced a mental illness which is now under effective management or lived experience of caring for someone having gone through mental illness.
• Knowledge and understanding of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders Culture and the ability to communicate effectively and sensitively with Indigenous Clients.
• Experience, skills and knowledge in working with people experiencing mental illness.
• Understanding of and ability to apply the principles of a recovery-oriented, person-centered, and strengths-based approach to service delivery.
• Ability to implement and facilitate capacity building activities with participants.
• Ability to demonstrate initiative and work independently.
• Capacity to collaborate within a multidisciplinary team across a range of organisations.
• Must be eligible to apply/currently hold a WWCC
• Must hold/be willing to apply for NDIS worker screening clearance
• Current driver's license with a good driving history and a registered, well-maintained vehicle that is available to be used for the purposes of this role.

Stride is committed to the safeguarding of children and vulnerable people. All applicants applying for roles within Stride must undergo required screening processes prior to their successful appointment.

Stride is an inclusive workplace and we encourage applications from diverse backgrounds in order to enhance the depth of cultural diversity and insight within our workforce.

This includes but is not limited to people with a lived-experience of mental health recovery, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, LGBTQIA+, and people with disabilities.