Family Peer Support Worker

**Overview**:
**Work Type**:Part-time

**Salary**: $68,858 - $73,065

**Grade**:Grade not specified

**Occupation**:Medicine, nursing and midwifery

**Location**:Melbourne - CBD and Inner Metro suburbs

**Reference**:13398
- We are seeking **2** **Family Peer Support Workers** to respecitvely join our **Mental Health Department at our St Albans clinic (0.4EFT) or at our Travancore clinic (0.6EFT).**
- These are part-time ongoing roles; 1 role with our St Albans team (0.4EFT) and 1 role with our Travancore team (0.6EFT).

The RCH’s Infant, Child and Family Area Mental Health and Wellbeing Service (RCH Mental Health) provides treatment, care and support to infants and children with the greatest support needs in the North and West Metropolitan Area of Melbourne, as well as their families. As a result of the Final Report from the Royal Commission into Victoria’s Mental Health System, the service is currently undergoing an exciting period of transformation that will enable us to help more infants and children and deliver a best practice, person-centred contemporary model of care.At the heart of this transformation is valuing the preferences, insights and expertise of people with a living or lived experience of mental health challenges and recovery, as well as families, carers and supporters who have cared for them. People with a lived experience will be valued in our service in leadership, strategy and service planning and service delivery roles.

**The Role**:

- These Family Peer Support Worker roles will be a key part of the transformation at our service. Working as an equal and valued member of a multi-disciplinary team, these workers will provide direct service delivery to families receiving treatment, care and support from one of the three teams that are based out in the community.

The successful applicants will work alongside other members of the team to best support the family including in orientating them to the service, understanding the challenges being experienced and their needs, preferences and strengths, consulting with other people in the infant’s and child’s learning and social environment and working with the family and individual family members on their own wellbeing and future strategies for hope and recovery.

Family Peer Support Workers will use their own lived experience and professional expertise to share their skills and learning, increase problem solving capabilities and provide emotional support, information and practical assistance to families in a way that is tailored to meet the needs of each family. Within a relationship of mutuality and information sharing, the Family Peer Support Workers will promote choice, self-determination and greater opportunities for families to be heard and be active participants in the treatment, care and support provided.

To view the position description please click here.
- For more information about our Mental Health career pathway click here

**Other requirements**:

- Current National Criminal Record Check, or willing to obtain
- Valid Working with Children Check
- Compliance with RCHs “Staff Immunisation - Prevention of Vaccine Preventable Diseases” procedure

**Application process**
- To apply, you will need a resume and a tailored cover letter outlining your skills, experience, and suitability for the position in line with the requirements of the position description.

**Please identify which location(s) you are interested in working in.**

Why work at the RCH?
- RCH enjoys high employee engagement and is committed to staff safety and a positive culture through enactment of our Compact. We offer the opportunity to work in world-class facilities, surrounded by Royal Park and only a short tram trip from the heart of Melbourne city.
- We also offer discounted staff parking, salary packaging, and an award-winning health and wellbeing program.
- It is a requirement of your employment that you be vaccinated against Influenza annually for Category A and B roles, in compliance with any public health orders in place at the relevant time, unless you have a medical exception in line with those public health orders, which has been accepted by The Royal Children’s Hospital. Applicants will be required to provide their Australian Government Immunisation History Statement, it is a requirement of the RCH to collect, record and hold vaccination information.
- It is also a requirement of your employment that you comply with any direction given by The Royal Children’s Hospital that you be vaccinated against, or prove immunity to, any other disease, unless you have a relevant exemption
- Are you ready to join our team?
- Applications close 17 July 2025

- Applications close Thursday 17 July 2025 at 11.59pm

Posted
- 3 July 2025