Peer Support Worker

Posted: 23/09/2025
- Closing Date: 23/10/2025
- Job Type: Fixed Term Contract
- Location: Melbourne
- Job Category: Mental Health & Counselling

**Peer Support Worker**
- **Box Hill location**:

- **Fixed Term Contract until June 30**th** 2026**:

- **Part Time (0.8FTE)**

**Who are we?**
healthAbility, as the name suggests, plays a unique and valuable role in the health system. We work to address the root causes of vulnerability, prevent disease and promote lifelong health outcomes, empowering people in our community to live their best life.

Our role is also supporting people to self-manage long-term health conditions, such as diabetes and mental health challenges, with multidisciplinary teams delivering community-based programs in a comfortable setting. We also support people, including older people and people with disability, to stay living at home longer and to live well in their community.

Our broad range of primary health services, care management and in home and community support services can be tailored to an individual’s needs and with major hubs in Box Hill and Eltham, these services can be delivered locally, in the Eastern and North Eastern suburbs of Melbourne.

**Why work with us?**
Although our clients are at the heart of what we do and we strive to positively impact our communities and those who need it most, the wellbeing of our employees is just as important.

When joining healthAbility’s supportive, kind, caring and ethical culture, you are welcomed by multi-disciplinary teams passionate about the health and wellbeing of clients and communities, from prevention through to specialist care, and passionate about continually learning and building on their areas of expertise. We embrace this passion and are values driven, offering careers with meaning and environments that are flexible, evolving, creative and connected.

**The opportunity**:
We are looking for a Peer Support Worker to join our supportive and professional multidisciplinary teams in on a fixed term contract working part time (0.8FTE).

Responsibilities include but are not limited to;
- Intentionally and safely share your lived experience of recovery.
- Provide a connection to care and social supports.
- Provide targeted follow up and assertive outreach to people during their recovery journey, bringing a lived experience/peer understanding to the relationship.
- Engage with individuals, community groups and clients who are risk of/have mental health issues.
- Support clients through intake and assessment processes and refer to other services as needed.
- Work with staff across varies programs to assertively engage with the target group, using a strengths-based, recovery oriented, hopeful and welcoming approach.
- Work as part of a multidisciplinary team within a supportive, inclusive, and diverse workplace.
- Provide a consumer perspective and contribute to planning, delivery, evaluation and promotion of our mental health services.
- Develop, maintain and enhance relationships with key stakeholders from a wide range of organisations.

**Desired Skills and Experience**:

- Lived experience of recovery from mental health issues.
- Experience in the provision of intentional peer support for people experiencing mental health issues.
- Experience working in mental health or a related field would be highly desirable.
- The ability to develop effective, client-centred therapeutic_ _relationships with clients/families/carers, by listening effectively,_ _sharing information and understanding client and family needs.
- Able to demonstrate empathy, particularly in the development of the client-peer worker relationship.
- Effective motivational skills within a client centred framework.
- Ability to advocate appropriately for clients, the profession and healthAbility.