• Utilise your Lived Experience to provide effective recovery support to clients!
• Provide positive, recovery-orientated support to clients experiencing ill mental health and achieve their wellbeing goals to live independently
• Permanent Part time role | 15 hours/week | Deer Park 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 Australia’s largest providers of community-managed psychosocial services, supporting people experiencing mental health and wellbeing challenges to find help, hope and purpose in their lives. Operating for more than 45 years and employing more than 1,300 staff around Australia, Mind is a leading employer of people with lived experience of mental health challenges, recognising their unique ability to connect with and motivate clients and guide recovery.

About the role

The Sub-Acute short stay ‘step up, step down’ Prevention and Recovery Care (PARC) service is delivered in partnership with Mind, Victorian hospital networks and the health service supporting people with psychosocial disability transition from an acute hospital setting or to prevent hospital admissions by providing extra support to those entering directly from the community.

We are seeking a self-motivated Peer Practitioner for a permanent, part time (15 hours per week) opportunity located in Deer Park. This role will see you utilising your lived and living experience of mental ill health to engage directly with clients through providing empathetic and positive support. You will champion the voice of lived experience whilst practicing in alignment with family-inclusive principles, recovery-oriented approaches, trauma-informed theories, and anti-racist/anti-oppressive frameworks.

Key responsibilities

• Draw on the broader lived and living Experience knowledge base to inform your practice.
• Provide direct support to individual clients, delivering high quality service and facilitating positive educational and social experiences.
• Work collaboratively with a broad range of services as they relate to clients’ needs to ensure a co-ordinated and integrated response to the client’s recovery goals.
• Work within a recovery-oriented framework to support individuals, families and carers.
• Planning and delivering group work programs that will assist customers to build their skills, focus on their recovery.
• Assist clients in building networks with their families and community services.

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.
• Lived/living experience and willingness to support clients through sharing your own learnings and recovery orientated practice.
• Experience working with people with complex mental health issues and their families and carers.
• Demonstrated ability to implement a recovery-oriented framework.
• Skilled in building solid connections with clients, colleagues and stakeholders.
• Demonstrated understanding of available community services, supports and the NDIS.
• Experience or ability to acquire skills in understanding needs and working collaboratively to plan wellbeing supports using evidence informed approaches and tools, for example in challenging situations.

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.)
• Fitness Passport - Access to our corporate health and fitness program, providing you and family with access to a wide choice of fitness facilities.
• Professional development through regular Practice Development sessions and coaching with your supervisor

Interested?

To apply online visit Mind Careers - reference number 497810. Online applications must be submitted by 11pm Tuesday 8 July 2025. Please contact the hiring manager below for more information.

Linda Locke – Service Manager
[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 (APARC) 20241016.pdf

The successful applicant is required to complete comprehensive reference and background checking prior to employment, including a Working with Children Check, NDIS Workers Screening Check and the ability to obtain vaccinations against COVID-19.