• Utilise your real-life experience to engage, encourage and support people in our community
• Permanent part time (negotiable) opportunity based across both Bairnsdale and Orbost
• Not for profit, values-based company + salary packaging up to $15,899 + 17.5% leave loading

Wellways is committed to reconciliation, lived experience and inclusivity. We strongly encourage and warmly welcome people from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, people with a lived experience of mental health and disability and people who identify as LGBTIQA+ to apply. Even if you only meet some of the criteria, we'd love to hear from you.

About the Opportunity

As a Wellbeing Navigator Peer, you'll walk alongside people as they navigate their mental health and wellbeing journey. Drawing on your own lived experience, you'll offer meaningful support tailored to each person's needs and goals.

You'll help individuals build on their strengths, develop everyday skills, and connect with the supports that matter most to them - through one-on-one peer support, care planning, service navigation and group sessions that foster confidence and connection.

We're looking to welcome new team members with availability to work 3 to 5 days per week, including Tuesdays. Shifts currently run 9am to 5pm, Monday to Friday, but will extend to include evenings and weekends by agreement as the service grows.

Please visit the Wellways Careers site to download a copy of the position description to see further details relating to this role.

About You

This role is for someone who's comfortable drawing on their own lived experience of mental health challenges to support others on their recovery journey. You're empathetic, value making a meaningful difference, and work well in a multidisciplinary team that includes peer workers and clinical staff.

To be successful in this role, you will need:

• Personal Experience of mental distress and accessing and navigating health services, including mental health services
• Certificate IV Mental Health Peer Work, SHARC Peer Worker Training, Intentional Peer Support or willingness to complete. 1+ year relevant work experience in a peer worker role
• Evidence of right to work in Australia
• Current Driver Licence, as you will be required to undertake regional travel as well as ad hoc overnight stays when required
• Satisfactory National Police Check, Working with Children Check and NDIS Worker Screening Check, or willingness to undertake
• NDIS Workers Orientation module certificate - free online course

About the Service

Wellways, Latrobe Regional Health and Gippsland Lakes Complete Health are working together to deliver tailored mental health and addiction supports for the East Gippsland community. Grounded in lived and living experience, inclusivity and genuine partnership, this service reflects a new, person-centred approach to mental health in Victoria.

Mental Health and Wellbeing Locals are free, voluntary and easy to access, with no referral needed. With a "no wrong door" approach and a focus on choice and connection, these safe and welcoming spaces make it easier for people to get the support they need - close to home, family and community.

What we will offer you…

• A purpose driven culture where people can thrive, everyone is respected, and differences are valued
• An equitable, diverse, and socially inclusive work environment
• Salary packaging up to $15,899 enables you to spend a portion of your salary before it is taxed to pay for things like rent, mortgage repayments, car leasing
• Meal and Entertainment allowance via salary packaging up to $2,650 per annum
• Receive 17.5% leave loading every time you take annual leave
• Paid parental leave after 12 months of ongoing employment
• Access for you and your family to our Employee Assistance Program
• Eligible candidates may have access to incentive payments for relocation expenses as part of the Regional Mental Health workforce Grants Program administered by the Rural Workforce Agency Victoria (RWAV).

For a confidential discussion about the role, please contact Kirsten Rabbitt, Operations Manager on 0484 954 615

Applications close 17th July 2025

We'd love to get to know you!

Please include a cover letter as well as a resume/CV in your application.

Wellways is committed to the health and safety of its employees and participants and strongly encourages all workers to be fully vaccinated including relevant boosters for COVID-19.

Wellways is committed to the safeguarding of children and vulnerable people. Successful applicants must undergo a comprehensive screening process prior to their commencement.