Description:
Lived Experience Matters – Use your journey to inspire hope and recovery in others
Collaborative Care – Be a vital link between inpatient and community support
Shape the Future – Influence service improvement, education & mental health policy
Employment Type: Temporary Full Time (up to 31st October 2025)
Position Classification: Health Education Officer Graduate
Remuneration: $36.04 - $57.58 per hour
Hours Per Week : 38 (Job Share may be considered for part time hours)
Location : Cumberland Hospital, North Parramatta
Where you'll be working
Western Sydney Local Health District (WSLHD) offers extensive healthcare services across Western Sydney. Join a team dedicated to:
- Providing primary and secondary care to Auburn, Blacktown, and surrounding LGAs.
- Delivering tertiary care to the Greater Western Region.
- Committed to "better health services" for all.
- Upholding values of collaboration, respect, and empowerment.
- Embracing a vision of innovation and quality in healthcare.
What you'll be doing
Western Sydney Local Health District Mental Health Services is seeking a Peer Support Worker to help embed lived experience into mental health care delivery, promoting recovery, hope and community connection. Responsibilities will include:
- Provide peer support during discharge and post-discharge care
- Empower consumers through information and advocacy
- Support recovery planning and physical wellbeing goals
- Build partnerships with services, consumers and carers
- Contribute to education, service evaluation and quality improvement
How to Apply
Apply online by submitting your resume and addressing the criteria listed below by providing examples that demonstrate your ability before the closing date.
Essential Requirements:
Relevant tertiary qualifications at graduate level or above in: population health, health promotion, public health, communications, management or other relevant areas such as nursing, allied health, education etc.
Selection Criteria:
- Understanding of and commitment to consumer led recovery principles with the ability to utilise the lived experience to support others with their own mental health recovery journey; with evidence of personal experience as a consumer of mental health services.
- Demonstrated clear written and verbal communication and negotiation skills including information technology skills.
- Ability to work independently and as part of a multi-disciplinary team and actively contribute to clinical care planning processes in a team setting.
- Ability to plan, implement and evaluate group and individual program activities.
- Able and willing to share aspects of your personal treatment and recovery experience to role model recovery, support, understanding, respect and learning of others.
- Demonstrated ability to develop and maintain effective partnerships with a range of key stakeholders, GP’s, non-government organisations, inpatient & community MH teams, consumers and carers.
- A past or current personal lived experience of a mental health issue.
- Valid current drivers licence
Requisition ID: REQ567743
Applications Close: 14th May 2025
Need more information ?
- Discover more about the application process.
- Review the detailed Position Description for insights into role requirements and criteria.
- Explore the selection process, employment checks, outcomes and notifications.
- For inquiries about the role, contact Milu Francis on Milu.Francis@health.nsw.gov.au
People with disabilities who meet the selection criteria are encouraged to apply; and where required, WSLHD will implement reasonable adjustment consistent with industry standard.
Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people are encouraged to apply. Stepping Up aims to assist Aboriginal job applicants by providing information about applying for roles in NSW Health organisations. For more information, please visit https://www.steppingup.health.nsw.gov.au/
Please note: In accordance with NSW Health policy, priority will be given to Australian citizens and permanent residents. A person who is not an Australian citizen or permanent resident is only eligible for temporary employment for a period not longer than the duration of their current visa or the advertised position.
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