About your role

As a Peer Recovery Support Worker, you'll provide culturally safe, peer-based support to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander consumers engaged in mental health recovery.

In this role you will:

• Provide personalised peer and cultural support to consumers in their recovery journey.
• Support and co-facilitate culturally responsive education programs and peer groups.
• Work collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team to promote culturally safe and recovery-oriented practices.
• Help connect consumers to community networks, cultural groups, and support services.
• Promote recovery-focused care through education, advocacy, and positive role modelling.

This is an identified vacancy with a genuine occupational requirement for the position to be filled by a candidate indigenous to the Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander Community. Candidates not meeting this criteria will not be considered.

About you

You're a compassionate communicator who values cultural safety, connection, and hope. You use your lived experience to guide others through recovery, fostering empowerment and resilience.

You will have:

• Knowledge and understanding of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture and community.
• A passion for promoting recovery-oriented, culturally safe practices.
• The ability to work collaboratively in a multidisciplinary environment.
• Highly Desirable: A Certificate IV in Mental Health, Mental Health Peer Work, or Community Services (or working towards it).
• Highly Desirable: Experience working in a similar role in public mental health service or non-government sector.

What we can offer you:

• We are renowned for teaching and research excellence with strong relations with Queensland's leading tertiary institutions.
• We want to empower you to build a long-term career, with countless opportunities to learn and grow, no matter your role
• You'll have all the benefits of working for Queensland's world-class public health system including generous leave entitlements, attractive salary and remuneration packages, salary packaging and access to relevant professional development allowances and/or leave, study and research assistance, corporate discounts and employee wellness programs.

Metro South Addiction and Mental Health Services:

Metro South Addiction and Mental Health Services provide inpatient, hospital-based and community mental health and community alcohol and drug services for all age groups across a number of campuses.

We embrace a forward looking, progressive approach and work collaboratively with all stakeholders in order to achieve expected outcomes. A clear and strong consumer and carer focus is promoted with our vision being to provide our community excellence in consumer centred, integrated care across the continuum of addiction (alcohol and drug) and mental health services.

INTEGRITY | COMPASSION | ACCOUNTABILITY | RESPECT | ENGAGEMENT | EXCELLENCE

Our values were created by employees for employees to shape our culture and inspire positive interactions in the workplace. Diversity of ideas, skills, traditions, and customs is celebrated as one of our greatest strengths. Having a workforce that reflects and understands the needs and expectations of our community is important to delivering safe, kinder, and more inclusive care.

We recognise our strength comes from the diversity of our people and so we encourage people of all genders, ethnicities, ages, abilities, languages, sexual orientation, and family responsibilities to apply.

We are Metro South Health:

We are the major public healthcare provider for Brisbane's south side, Logan, Redlands, and the Scenic Rim operating five major hospitals and a range of community, specialty, and state-wide healthcare services.

We are bold, innovative, collaborative, inspiring. We save lives, change lives, and make the world a better place. We are part of and proud of the community we serve.

We are better together.