Advance Carer Peer Support Worker

4 weeks ago

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia Metro South Health Full time

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Use your lived experience to support and empower carers in mental health recovery.

This is a unique opportunity to use your carer experience to guide and support others, influence inclusive mental health care, and be part of a values-driven team.

Your New Role

As an Advanced Carer Peer Worker, you'll use your lived or living experience as a carer of someone with mental health challenges to connect with, support, and educate other carers and families. This role strengthens recovery-oriented care and promotes carer inclusion across services.

Key Responsibilities Include

  • Providing emotional support, information and education to carers and families.
  • Sharing personal carer experience to model recovery and build connection.
  • Collaborating with the multidisciplinary team and co-facilitating carer support groups.
  • Advocating for carer-inclusive practices and identifying service improvements.

About You

You are a passionate and empathetic individual with lived or living experience as a mental health carer. You are ready to use your experience to empower others and promote recovery-focused care.

To Be Successful In This Role, You Will Demonstrate
  • Willingness and confidence to share your own lived or living experience to support others.
  • Strong interpersonal and communication skills to build trusting relationships.
  • An understanding of recovery principles, peer work values and carer-inclusive frameworks.
  • Ability to work collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team and maintain professional boundaries.

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What We Can Offer You
  • You'll have all the benefits of working for Queensland's world-class public health system including generous leave entitlements, attractive salary and remuneration packages, salary packaging and access to relevant professional development allowances and/or leave, study and research assistance, corporate discounts and employee wellness programs.
  • A unique opportunity to use your lived or living experience to make a meaningful impact on carers, families, and the broader mental health system.
  • A supportive and inclusive workplace that values your voice, perspective, and contribution.
  • Access to professional supervision, training, and development tailored to peer workers.
  • Flexible working arrangements that support work-life balance and individual needs.
  • A chance to influence service delivery, advocate for carer-inclusive practices, and help shape a more recovery-oriented mental health system.

INTEGRITY | COMPASSION | ACCOUNTABILITY | RESPECT | ENGAGEMENT | EXCELLENCE

Our values were created by employees for employees to shape our culture and inspire positive interactions in the workplace. Diversity of ideas, skills, traditions, and customs is celebrated as one of our greatest strengths. Having a workforce that reflects and understands the needs and expectations of our community is important to delivering safe, kinder, and more inclusive care.

We recognise our strength comes from the diversity of our people and so we encourage people of all genders, ethnicities, ages, abilities, languages, sexual orientation, and family responsibilities to apply.

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 state-wide healthcare services.

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

We are better together .

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