An exciting leadership opportunity exists for Consumer Peer Workers to apply for our Senior role, as we aim to continue to build a positive professional culture that facilitates safe and effective service provision enabling consumers to work towards their recovery goals.

Employment Type: Permanent Part Time
Position Classification: Senior Health Education Officer Graduate
Remuneration: $57.58 - $62.20 per hour
Hours Per Week: 16
Requisition ID: REQ616285

Who we are: We are a health service that touches thousands of lives across the Northern Sydney Local Health District, together as a team of like-minded people. We are passionate, driven and have the skills and knowledge to care for our patients whilst creating the best services possible. Our teams have meaningful, interesting and rewarding work everyday. We challenge and nurture each other, sharing our knowledge and experience so that we can deliver better care for everyone There’s a real sense of belonging here because we value and respect our patients, employees, and teams’ voices. You’ll feel a real privilege being a trusted caregiver in our patients, their families, their carers, and our communities’ lives.

NSLHD is proud of our diverse and inclusive workplaces, a place where health care professionals can thrive and feel they belong. We are committed to ensure that all our people feel respected and participate safely within a work environment without aggression, sexual harassment, discrimination and racism.

Where you'll be working
Macquarie Hospital. Macquarie Hospital is a declared, low-secure, 195 bed mental health facility with 14 beds for adult acute admissions and 181 beds in long term and short term rehabilitation services for consumers with schizophrenia, dual diagnosis and other enduring psychotic illnesses. It is located in North Ryde, 22km from the CBD of Sydney on approximately 42 hectares of parkland.

What you'll be doing
This opportunity exists for the first Senior Consumer Peer Worker role in NSLHD. In this pioneering role the position is crucial in advocating for the needs of our consumers from a lived experience perspective. The role will collaboratively develop and deliver individual and/or group activities that support social inclusion, rehabilitation and recovery through the ability and willingness to share aspects of their experience with service navigation and recovery journey to role model recovery. The role will champion the support and development of Consumer Peer work students and provide leadership and mentoring to our dedicated team of Consumer Peer Workers.

People of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander background are encouraged to apply.

Candidates will need to meet the following criteria:

1. Hold relevant tertiary degree of a recognised University or College of Advanced Education requiring a minimum of three years full time study, or other qualifications deemed to be equivalent with a certificate IV in mental health peer work or willingness to undertake.
2. Extensive experience in mentoring and/or providing supervision to other peer workers, promoting continuous professional growth and adherence to best practices in peer support.
3. Demonstrated capacity to use one’s own recovery journey constructively to support and inspire others, including being able and willing to share aspects of one’s own Mental Health experience with service navigation and recovery journey with others individually or in a group setting.
4. Demonstrated ability to build effective partnerships with internal and external stakeholders, with high level interpersonal and communication skills to negotiate and influence outcomes, resolve conflict and motivate change. This includes the ability to have difficult conversations, negotiate and resolve conflict while upholding lived experience values and principles, as well as excellent verbal and written communication skills including demonstrated high level computer literacy and administration skills.

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For role related queries or questions contact Alexander Kelly on [email protected] or 0409 805 169.

This is a NSW Health Category A position which requires immunisation and screening for certain diseases. The full list of requirements are outlined in the NSW Health OASV Policy (Page 11). You will be required to complete the OASV Undertaking/ Declaration Form and TB Assessment Tool during the recruitment process. Please upload this with your application along with any other vaccination evidence that you may have.

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Applications Close: 7 November 2025

Tentative Interview Dates: Week commencing 12 November 2025