Peer Specialist

1 week ago

Greater Adelaide SA, Australia SA Health Full time

**Job no**: 912493
**Work type**: Full time
**Location**: Adelaide Metro Southern
**Categories**: Community and Social Services, Child, Aged and Disability Care, Mental Health, Public Health, Support Services
- Southern Adelaide Local Health Network - Noarlunga Hospital - Mental Health Rehabilitation Unit

**Join our Mental Health Rehabilitation Unit Team and make a real difference as a Peer Specialist**

Peer work is a key component of recovery-oriented mental health service delivery. Peer Specialists draw on their own life-changing mental health challenges, service use, and journey of recovery and healing, to support others through a supportive non-clinical relationship based on equity, credibility, mutuality, hope, and empowerment. This role involves assisting with communication flow between consumers and the multidisciplinary team to promote consumer engagement within a person-centreed, recovery-oriented, human rights-based approach

Click here to view more information about the Mental Health Rehabilitation Unit

**About the role**:
Duties for the role will include:

- Drawing from your personal lived experience of mental health challenges and recovery to role-model recovery and act as a recovery champion.
- Forming authentic peer relationships with consumers by appropriately and purposefully sharing your personal lived experience and understanding of the impact of mental health challenges, service use, and recovery.
- Working to identify and reduce stigma and discrimination.
- Supporting the development of consumer skills in self-management, wellness, and safety planning.
- Assisting consumers to connect with community networks, groups, and services.

**About you**:

- Lived experience of mental health challenges, service use and recovery
- Skills in building connected and authentic trusting relationships with consumers.
- The ability to support consumers as they navigate mental health and other services

Certificate IV in Mental Health Peer Work - or currently enrolled in the Cert IV and due to complete within 12 months will be highly regarded.

Please see the attached Role Description for additional information.

**Application Closing Date**:**11.55 pm Sunday 31st August 2025

**Attachments**:

- 912493 - Peer Specialist Role Description
- Australian applicant guidelines
- International applicant guidelines

**Applicant Information**:

- We also offer salary sacrifice benefits which provide the opportunity to save money by paying for some of your everyday expenses from your salary before it is taxed. Click here to find out more about salary packaging.
- The South Australian public sector promotes diversity and flexible ways of working including part-time. Applicants are encouraged to discuss the flexible working arrangements for this role.
- SA Health Services are required to implement the Addressing vaccine preventable disease: Occupational assessment, screening and vaccination policy in the workplace.
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants are encouraged to apply. Job ref**:912493**

**Advertised**: 15 Aug 2025 Cen. Australia Standard Time
**Applications close**: 31 Aug 2025 Cen. Australia Standard Time

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