Senior Peer Worker

Overview

Senior Peer Worker (Forensic Mental Health) – Sydney Metro, Justice Health – PPT (20hpw) at NSW Health. Employment Type: Permanent Part Time. Position Classification: Health Educ Off Non Grad/Grad. Remuneration: $47.29 - $49.08 per hour (Non Graduate); $57.58 - $62.20 per hour (Graduate) plus superannuation. Hours Per Week: 20. Requisition ID: REQ604254. Applications Close: Monday 6 October 2025 at 11:59pm AEST.

Position Title: Senior Peer Worker (Forensic Mental Health) – Sydney Metro, Justice Health – PPT (20hpw).

If you are passionate about delivering healthcare with impact, join the Justice Health and Forensic Mental Health Network (JHFMHN). We are Just the Place to grow your career and be part of a valued team delivering care where it is needed most.

Be part of a supportive environment where you can apply your skills to address complex healthcare needs while broadening treatment capabilities to maximise patient outcomes. This is a challenging yet rewarding place to advance your career with industry-leading safety standards.

The Role

The Justice Health and Forensic Mental Health Network (Justice Health NSW) is committed to embedding people with lived and living experience across all levels of service delivery to ensure lived and living experience is heard, respected and genuinely influences our services. The Lived and Living (Peer) Experience Workforce is vital in offering support and guidance to patients and the forensic mental health service through gains in their own recovery. The Senior Peer Worker sits in the System Reform section of the Forensic Mental Health directorate. Its key function is to transfer personal and collective lived and living experience knowledge and values into peer work service delivery and professional practice. The Senior Peer Worker has a centralised Forensic Mental Health directorate remit for developing and implementing peer work care delivery frameworks, workforce capability, professional governance, systems advocacy and representation.

Essential Requirements

• Personal lived experience of mental health challenges, mental health services use and recovery, with a strategic ability to use lived experience to lead and inform practice. Additional lived experience of contact with the criminal justice or forensic mental health systems will be considered highly desirable.
• Relevant qualifications in Mental Health Peer Work (for example, Certificate IV Mental Health Peer Work, Intentional Peer Support); or equivalent work and study experience. Note: successful applicants without formal Mental Health Peer Work qualification are expected to attain within 18 months of commencement.
• Minimum three years' experience in designated lived and living experience (peer) worker roles working directly with mental health consumers, including providing professional supervision to peer workers.
• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with disability, people with culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, veterans, younger and older workers, and people with diverse genders, sexes and sexualities are encouraged to apply.

Location, Team, and Service

The Forensic Hospital is a high-secure forensic mental health facility in New South Wales, operated by Justice Health NSW. It provides specialist inpatient care for adults and adolescent forensic, correctional, and high-risk civil patients. A multidisciplinary team of medical, nursing, and allied health professionals deliver care across the clinical spectrum, from high dependency and acute care to long stay and rehabilitation care. A two-week full-time orientation is provided for all new staff commencing at the Forensic Hospital, with intake dates on 13 October 2025 and 24 November 2025.

Salary & Benefits

Your salary per hour plus superannuation is just the beginning. You will have access to a number of benefits:

• Additional allowances that may apply
• Eligibility for Fitness Passport and Salary Packaging benefits
• Free on-site parking
• Support from a passionate management team
• Career progression and professional development opportunities
• Training and education opportunities available

Diversity & Inclusion

We are an equal-opportunity employer. We value Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, culturally and linguistically diverse groups, the LGBTQIA+ community, veterans, refugees, and people with disability. This is a Targeted Aboriginal Position. Preference will be given to applicants of Aboriginal descent. Exemption is claimed under Section 21 of the Anti-Discrimination Act 1977.

Ready to Apply?

The first step is to submit your resume and answers to the following questions:

• Briefly describe the Mental Health Peer Work or equivalent qualifications and/or work/study experience you hold that meet the essential requirements of this position.
• Provide an example of how you have used your personal lived/living experience of mental health challenges, recovery, and the body of knowledge created by the collective consumer lived experience community, to lead the development and implementation of a program, strategy or policy that positively influenced patient care.
• Provide an example of how you have managed stakeholder engagement and collaboration where there was a difference of opinion, a conflict of values, and/or pressure for co-option. Describe the steps you took and the outcome.

For role related queries contact Concetta Galati at concetta.galati@health.nsw.gov.au.

Applications Close: Monday 6 October 2025 at 11:59pm AEST

Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Permanent Part Time

Job function

• Other
• Industries: Hospitals and Health Care

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