About the role

As a Peer Worker with us you will have the chance to use your lived experience of mental health challenges, including suicidality, to provide empathetic and practical support to those in need. Working closely with service users for 2–3 weeks, you’ll help them navigate local services, build recovery goals, and foster connections to promote wellbeing. This is a full-time role on a maximum term contract until the 30th of June 2026, with the flexibility to consider part-time arrangments.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Offering personalised peer support and advocacy.
• Assisting service users in understanding and accessing support systems.
• Strengthening community connections by fostering relationships with local services.
• Utilising trauma-informed and recovery-oriented practices to inspire hope and reduce stigma.
• Supporting service users to set and achieve recovery goals.

About you

To succeed in this role, you’ll need:

• Lived experience and the ability to reflect and share your journey meaningfully.
• Experience in mental health peer work or similar roles.
• Strong interpersonal skills, with the ability to connect with diverse groups, including First Nations and priority populations.
• Knowledge of trauma-informed and recovery-oriented practices.

About the Distress Brief Support (DBS) Service

This innovative service connects those experiencing distress with compassionate peer workers who provide short-term, community-based support. By understanding service users’ unique circumstances and linking them to the right resources, the DBS Service empowers individuals to transition toward recovery.

Ready to share your story and inspire hope?
If you’re ready to make a meaningful impact through empathetic support and lived experience, apply now – we want to hear from you!

For questions or further information, contact Rebekah King at [email protected] or on 0413 882 608.

Diversity is Strength. We encourage people from diverse ages, gender, identity, cultural backgrounds and experience including First nations peoples, Cultural and linguistically diverse, LGBTQIAP+, lived/ peer, mental health experience, to apply for this position.

Open Minds acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of the lands on which we all work, live and play on. We pay our respects to the Elders past and present and extend that respect to all First Nations Peoples. We reflect upon the millions of footprints that are embedded into the earth from our Ancestors, the pathways that were forged, the meaning they leave behind and the continuation of the traditions through the next generations.