Recovery-Focused Peer Support Worker, HOPE Team (Part-Time)

Northern Health; Almada; On-site; EUR 34,000 - 43,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible workplace

Professional development

Health and wellbeing program

Job summary

Northern Health is seeking a Consumer Peer Support Worker to join the HOPE Team at Mill Park and other campuses. This role draws on lived experience to provide peer support to individuals in crisis, promoting hope, connection and recovery within a multidisciplinary team.

The position emphasizes trauma-informed, recovery-oriented care, collaboration with carers and clinicians, and strong documentation and professional boundaries.

Qualifications

• Lived experience of mental health challenges and recovery.
• Commitment to recovery-oriented, trauma-informed care.
• Ability to engage with consumers respectfully and collaboratively.

Responsibilities

• Providing intentional peer support to HOPE consumers using lived experience to promote hope, connection and recovery.
• Building respectful and collaborative relationships with consumers and supporting engagement with care, wellbeing goals and community supports.
• Advocating for consumer voice, choice and self-determination throughout the HOPE episode of care.
• Contributing lived experience perspectives to multidisciplinary team discussions, care planning and service delivery.
• Supporting recovery-oriented and trauma-informed practice within the team and broader service.
• Working collaboratively with clinicians and external services to support coordinated care and transitions.
• Maintaining accurate documentation, confidentiality and professional boundaries in accordance with organisational requirements.
• Participating in supervision, reflective practice, professional development and service improvement activities.
• Contributing positively to team culture and demonstrating organisational values in day-to-day practice.

Skills

Lived experience

Recovery-oriented care

Trauma-informed care

Person-centred care

Communication skills

Education

Peer work qualification

Job description

Northern Health is seeking a Consumer Peer Support Worker to join the HOPE Team at Mill Park and other campuses. This role draws on lived experience to provide peer support to individuals in crisis, promoting hope, connection and recovery within a multidisciplinary team.

The position emphasizes trauma-informed, recovery-oriented care, collaboration with carers and clinicians, and strong documentation and professional boundaries.