Perinatal Consumer Peer Worker

**Alfred Health**

Alfred Health is a leader in health care delivery, improvement, research and education. We are the main provider of health services to people living in the inner southeast suburbs of Melbourne, from ambulatory to inpatient and home and community-based services. On 1 January 2026, Alfred Health will come together with Kooweerup Regional Health Service, Peninsula Health, Bass Coast Health and Gippsland Southern Health Service to create Bayside Health, a newly merged health service with more than 22,000 employees caring for a community of over 1.2 million Victorians. The new health service will provide people with the best possible care with services that support them throughout their lives. The merger will also strengthen our workforce, providing new training, education and career opportunities. Subject to final approval on 1 January 2026, all employees from the five health services will transfer to Bayside Health.
- **Permanent/ Part Time (64 hours per fortnight)**:

- ** Lived Experience Worker Level 2**:

- ** Located at Albert Road Clinic (Ramsay Health)**:

- ** 5 weeks annual leave and salary packaging**

**Women’s Recovery Network**

WREN is a 35 bed women’s mental health service. This is an innovative response to the Royal Commissions recommendation on private/ public partnerships and the need for gender and sexual safe units. In partnership Alfred Health, Ramsay Health and Goulburn Valley Health will provide a state-wide, specialist comprehensive trauma informed, wellness focused service for women, or those who identify as women, who present with mental health conditions. This service will assess, treat and support women over 18 years of age presenting with complex mental health conditions in a relational context, including presentation during the perinatal period and for women presenting with eating disorders.

This service will include a combination of inpatient and bed substitution beds. This includes 5 perinatal beds, 5 eating disorder beds, 14 General Women’s Mental Health beds within the Albert Road Clinic (ARC) Hub and up to 2 beds in Shepparton Private Hospital in the Shepparton Spoke.

**The Role**

This is a permanent, part-time position, with an expectation of some coverage of extended hours and weekend work, and is based at the Ramsay Clinic Albert Rd (RCAR).

As an integral and highly valued member of the multi-disciplinary team, the Consumer Peer Worker will provide formalised peer support and practical assistance to service users, to support them through their own unique recovery process. Within a relationship of mutuality and information sharing, they will promote choice, self-determination, hope and opportunities to seek or maintain socially valued roles and connections in their local communities.

This role will work primarily from the Blossom Pod (Perinatal) but will work across the whole unit including the Hospital in the Home Team.

In this role, you can offer a unique perspective on recovery that requires a different approach than mainstream clinical mental health service delivery.

**Lived Experience Workforce**

AMAH’s Lived Experience Workforce is a growing and valued team of peer and carer professionals in designated roles such as Directors, Coordinators, Consultants, Educators, and Peer Workers. They contribute across all service areas, including youth, adult, older adult, emergency, and statewide specialist services like Women’s Mental Health and Residential Eating Disorders.

**Experience and Qualifications Required**

**_ Mandatory:_**
- Lived experience of your own perinatal mental health challenges and recovery journey, and a rich understanding of your own processes of recovery that inspires hope and belief in recovery
- Experience of the public or private mental health system
- A Current Victorian Driver’s License

**_ Highly Regarded:_**
- Formal qualifications are not mandatory for this role but may be helpful (Certificate IV in Peer Work, Cert IV in Mental Health, Intentional Peer Support training)
- Experience working in a peer support role.
- Australian working rights and current Influenza vaccination

**Staff Benefits**
- Salary packaging & novated leasing through Maxxia
- Flexible health insurance coverage through HCF Health Insurance
- Onsite car and bike parking opportunities,
- Fantastic onsite fitness facilities at The Alfred through ProSport health and fitness
- Childcare services at The Alfred managed by KU Children’s Services

**Applications close: 11pm AEST, Monday 27th October 2025.**

In accordance with the Health Services Amendment (Mandatory Vaccination of Healthcare Workers) Act 2020, health care workers in Category A or B roles (as determined by the department’s risk ratings) are required to be vaccinated against influenza or hold an acceptable medical exemption.

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