Multicultural Family Peer Practitioner

23 hours ago

Greater Adelaide SA, Australia Sonder AU Full time

Posted: 16/07/2025

Closing Date: 31/07/2025

Salary: $76,378.00 - $88,099.00

Job Type: Permanent - Part Time

Location: Kaurna Country, headspace Adelaide

Job Category: Healthcare & Medical

**Who are we?**

headspace is Australia’s leading youth mental health organisation, providing a range of comprehensive services for young people aged 12 - 25 years. headspace centres act as a one-stop-shop for young people who are seeking support with mental health, physical and sexual health, work and study, or alcohol and/or other drug use.

Sonder is the lead agency of headspace Adelaide, headspace Edinburgh North, headspace Marion and headspace Onkaparinga.

**What benefits can we offer?**

When you work with Sonder, you become part of the Sonder family and that provides you with a number of benefits such as:

- Salary (excluding super) paid above award and reviewed annually
- Flexible working arrangements
- Professional development allowance provided yearly
- Generous salary packaging options - increase your take home pay by 6-12%
- 17.5% Leave Loading
- Modern and welcoming office spaces
- Christmas Closure Bonus Leave (above annual leave entitlements)
- Training opportunities
- Meal & entertainment allowances
- Paid parental leave, and much more

Sonder are open to negotiating further benefits with the successful applicant to ensure an excellent working environment for you.

**Hours**:Part-Time (0.5FTE)

**Contract**:Ongoing

**Location**:headspace Adelaide

**About the Role**:
Use your lived experience to provide culturally safe support to multicultural young people and their families experiencing mental health challenges. This role focuses on family-inclusive practice, community engagement, and reducing stigma, while supporting access to care. You'll work closely with the headspace team to co-develop resources, enhance cultural safety, and empower families throughout the treatment journey. Accredited training (e.g. Cert IV in Mental Health Peer Work) and cultural supervision will be fully supported. Make a real difference in a role that values lived experience, inclusion, and recovery

**Experience Requirements**:

- Demonstrated experience working within a fast-paced environment;
- Has experienced being a family member/carer of an individual experiencing a mental illness or has their own lived experience of mental illness and has demonstrable experience of recovery.
- Understanding of public and private mental health systems.
- Understanding of recovery and strength based practice for Peer Practitioners.
- Demonstrating appropriate boundaries especially in regards to self-disclosure. For instance; not oversharing and focusing on strengths and recovery from mental health difficulties. Understanding professional principles such as confidentiality

**Qualification and Other Requirements**:

- Certificate IV in Mental Health / Peer Work or equivalent
- Sonder are committed to supporting individuals reach qualifications required for this role and can discuss the incumbent working towards the certificate rather than already achieved.
- Drivers Licence
- Current or willing to obtain a Working with Children's Check (WWCC)
- Current or willing to obtain a National Police Clearance

**How to apply**:
**Advert Closing Date**:31 July 2025

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