Advanced Peer Worker, Queensland Health

Your new role :

As a valued member of the Logan Adult Wellbeing Team, you will leverage your personal lived experience to support and inspire consumers on their recovery journey. You will collaborate closely with multidisciplinary teams and community partners to deliver person-centred care that fosters resilience and empowerment.

• Co-develop, deliver, and evaluate education and wellbeing activities within the Adult Mental Health Services.
• Provide formal peer support, practical assistance, and tailored education to help consumers build skills for mental and physical health recovery.
• Mentor and guide peer workers, promoting the values and principles of peer support within the team.
• Collaborate with NGOs, government agencies, and internal teams to enhance consumer engagement and recovery-oriented practice.

About you :

You are passionate about using your lived experience to make a meaningful difference in mental health recovery. You possess strong communication and mentoring skills and are committed to fostering a respectful, inclusive, and collaborative environment for consumers and colleagues alike.

• Demonstrated experience in peer support with a deep understanding of recovery frameworks and person-centred care.
• Ability to share your recovery story authentically to inspire hope and self-advocacy in others.
• Skilled in working collaboratively across multidisciplinary teams and community organisations.
• Committed to continuous professional development, supervision, and improving service quality.

What we can offer you :

• We offer a family-friendly work environment that supports you in making the most of Queensland's laid-back lifestyle.
• 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 professional development allowances, study and research assistance, corporate discounts, and employee wellness programs.

About us :

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

We embrace a forward-looking, progressive approach and work collaboratively with all stakeholders to achieve expected outcomes. A strong consumer and carer focus is promoted, with our vision being to provide our community with 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 culture is shaped by employees for employees, celebrating diversity of ideas, skills, traditions, and customs as one of our greatest strengths. Having a workforce that reflects and understands the needs of our community is essential for delivering safe, kinder, and more inclusive care.

We recognize our strength comes from the diversity of our people and encourage applications from all genders, ethnicities, ages, abilities, languages, sexual orientations, and family responsibilities.

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 statewide healthcare services.

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