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Peer Practitioner

Mind Australia
Box Hill, VIC
A$73,000 p/a + super & salary packaging
Community Services & Development → Community Development
Part-time
On-site

Posted 4 days ago


  • Use your lived experience of mental ill health to offer a unique perspective in delivering recovery services to youth
  • Two Permanent Part time roles | 26.6 or 30.4 hours per week
  • Box Hill Location

Mind strongly encourages applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, people with a lived experience of mental ill health and recovery, and applicants from all cultures, genders, sexualities, bodies, abilities, spiritualities, ages and backgrounds.

Mind Australia is one of the country’s leading community-managed specialist mental health service providers with a range of residential, mobile outreach, centre based and online services. Mind has been supporting people experiencing mental health and wellbeing challenges to find help, hope and purpose in their lives for more than 45 years.

We provide practical and motivational support that helps people to develop the skills they need to move on, thrive and improve the quality of their lives. It’s an approach to mental health and wellbeing that looks at the whole person in the context of their daily life. Mind is committed to diversity and social inclusion.

About the role

headspace in partnership with Mind aims to promote and facilitate improvements in the mental health, social wellbeing and economic participation of young people aged 12-25 years residing the Eastern Region of Melbourne. Services in this youth friendly space are delivered across four core streams - physical and sexual health, mental health, alcohol and other drugs (AOD), and educational and vocational services to improve access for young people to mental health programs as well as ensuring better co-ordination between service providers.

We are seeking two compassionate, resilient Peer Practitioners for permanent part time opportunities (26.6 or 30.4 hours per week) in the Box Hill area. You will utilise your lived experience of mental ill health and recovery to provide services to young people, families, friends and carers. In this role you will be the champion of co-design and co-production in all aspects of the service, work with young people to define their own outcomes and deliver personalised support services and recovery-oriented care to young people living with mental ill health in the community.

Key responsibilities

  • Willingness to utilise and disclose your own lived experience of mental ill health and recovery in an appropriate and purposeful manner to support, empower, bring hope, and support the recovery of young people.
  • Provide direct support to young people and their families and friends by supporting them through a staged approach to recovery.
  • Support the team to understand and deliver services that are consistent with recovery – oriented practice from a peer/lived experience perspective.
  • Collaborate with a range of services and the community to ensure a co-ordinated, integrated response to client’s recovery goals.

What you’ll bring

  • Completion of Intentional Peer Support Core and/ or Advanced Training, or Certificate IV in Mental Health Peer Work, is desirable but not required.
  • Tertiary qualifications (minimum Certificate IV) are required in Mental Health, Peer Work, Alcohol and Other Drugs (AOD) or other health related field as designated by Mind.
  • Experience, expertise and/or desire in working directly with people with mental health issues, and their families and carers.
  • Experience and/or commitment in providing empathic person-centred relational support, while recognising positionality, relative power and privilege.
  • Mandarin, Cantonese and/or other Asian language skills are highly regarded.

Benefits

  • Salary packaging up to $15,899 p.a. allows you to allocate a portion of your pre-tax income to cover living expenses (e.g. rent, mortgage, child-care, car leasing expenses etc.)
  • Option to access Meal and Entertainment allowance up to $2,650 p.a. via Salary Packaging.
  • Fitness Passport - Access to our corporate health and fitness program, providing you and family with access to a wide choice of fitness facilities.

Interested?

To apply visit Mind Careers - reference number 497613. Online applications must be submitted by 11pm Tuesday 17 June 2025. Please contact the person below for more information.

Amanda Toyer – Clinical Lead
[email protected]

We are committed to making reasonable adjustments to provide a positive, barrier-free recruitment process. If you require any support or reasonable adjustments to complete your application, please contact us at [email protected]

Position Description

PD Peer Practitioner (headspace Boxhill) 20250603.pdf

The successful applicant is required to complete comprehensive reference and background checking prior to employment, including a Working with Children Check and NDIS Workers Screening Check.


About Mind Australia

Mandurah, WA, Australia
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This organization is engaged in the provision of mental health services. It was founded in the year of 1974, and its registered head office is located in Collingwood, state of Victoria, Australia. The organization is a leading provider of community mental health services. It supports its clients to live independent, productive and purposeful lives. Its range of services include: personalized support services, residential and prevention and recovery care (PARC) services, family and carer services, group support services and care coordination services. Its approach focuses on proactive and purposeful engagement to build trusting relationships between staff and clients. The company is committed to provide and assist consumers and carers to access individually tailored services and resources which enable them to live well.

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