Family/peer Worker

1 week ago

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Orygen, The National Centre of Excellence in Youth Mental Health Full time
Orygen Specialist Program Melbourne Part-time
30/5/202- Ongoing part-time role | 4 days per fortnight

  • Based in Footscray | Excellent team culture and development opportunities
  • Make a difference in the lives of young people and their families/carers

Your new role:

  • Work collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team and provide a lived experience specific values and perspective
  • Support young people and their families/carers with goal setting, group sessions, navigating system, problemsolving barriers to participation
  • Support with recruitment, induction, training and supervision of other family/carer peer workers across Orygen
  • Provide inclusive and sensitive practice to young people and their families/carers from Aboriginal/Torres Strait Islander, CALD and LGBTQIA backgrounds

Your new team:


Orygen Specialist Program provides mental health services to young people aged 15-25 and their families/carers in Melbourne's northwest and western suburbs.


About you:

  • Lived experience as a carer of a young person accessing youth mental health services and ability to share experiences in a recovery focused way
  • Experience in delivering peer work in mental health, ideally in a youthspecific setting
  • Passion, energy and determination to make a difference to the health outcomes for young people
  • Qualifications/training in mental health are desirable but not required
  • Benefits of working with Orygen Specialist Programs:
  • AH3 / RPN4 + employed by Melbourne Health under Mental Health / Psych EBAs + 10.5% super + salary packaging
  • Join us during this inspiring time of growth and transformation career progression opportunities to suit your professional development goals
  • Receive supervision and support with professional development
  • Enjoy excellent worklife balance working in a supportive and collaborative team
For a confidential conversation, please contact Steve Wiggins on

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  • Imagine a future with unlimited potential. A future where every young person enjoys optimal mental health as they grow into adulthood. At Orygen, this is our life's work, because we passionately believe it's what all young people deserve.
  • Every step of the way, young people and families are at the heart of everything we do. Always. Through worldleading research that creates change. Through pioneering reform that delivers realworld practical solutions.
  • Join the revolutionOrygen is a childsafe organisation and is committed to promoting and protecting the safety and wellbeing of all young people and embedding safeguarding practices into all our programs and services.

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