Youth Mental Health Peer Worker

**Youth Mental Health Peer Worker (headspace)**
- Full time**,** Fixed term contract till 30.06.25 **|** Location: Port Adelaide
- Collaborative and client focused team **|** Experienced and supportive leadership
- SCHCADS L 4 $43.08 p/h + PBI salary packaging

**The Role**

Centacare has an opening for a Youth Mental Health Peer Worker join our headspace team at Port Adelaide to join on full time basis till 30 June 2025.

In this role, you will draw on your lived experience to provide compassionate support to young people aged 12-25 years, helping them navigate and overcome challenges related to trauma, mental health, and emotional distress. Your insight and understanding will play a crucial part in fostering hope and resilience, empowering young people to take positive steps toward improved wellbeing.

The key duties in this role will include:

- ** Provide Peer Support**: Offer brief, non-clinical peer support to individuals through face-to-face interactions or telephone engagements.
- ** Leverage Personal Experience**: Draw on personal experiences of mental or emotional distress, service use, and recovery/healing to connect authentically with individuals.
- ** Empower Recovery**: Share relevant skills and learnings to instill hope and empower individuals to progress in their recovery journey.
- ** Provide Resource Information**: Offer information about clinical and non-clinical services and make appropriate referrals as needed.
- ** Facilitate Support Groups**: Lead and facilitate peer support groups to foster connection, understanding, and mutual support among participants.

**To be successful in this role, you will need**:

- **Minimum qualification Certificate IV in Mental Health Peer Work (or equivalent)
- Lived experience of a mental illness and demonstrated significant mental health recovery
- Proven experience working with young people experiencing emerging and diagnosed mental health concerns
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Proficiency in using Microsoft Office Suite

See attached Position Description for full details.

Prior to receiving a formal offer of employment with Centacare, the following documents must be provided for this role:

- Driver’s licence
- Valid Working with Children Check (WWCC)
- Evidence of right to work in Australia
- 100 points of identification

**What's in it for you**
- SCHCADS Level 4 $43.08 p/h + super + PBI salary packaging
- Generous salary packaging to help increase your take home pay
- Meal and entertainment card option available
- High performing, goal focused, collaborative & supportive team environment
- Longstanding and reputable organisation
- Ongoing training and development opportunities
- Access to our Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Health insurance discounts with Bupa

**About Us**

Each year, we support more than 30,000 people through community services in metropolitan and regional South Australia, operating within a strong ethical framework. We are client focused and provide support regardless of race, economic circumstance, sexual orientation, gender identity, religious belief or ethnic background. Centacare is a Child Safe, Quality Accredited Organisation and is a registered NDIS provider. We value the uniqueness of individuals, we consult, collaborate and operate with integrity and professionalism. Centacare is committed to cultivating a harmonious workplace free from harassment and discrimination. Equal opportunity principles align with our mission, vision and values. We believe that treating our workers fairly has a positive impact on our clients and maintains our reputation as a great place to work.

To learn more about us, click on the video Centacare Catholic Community Services - Our Story

**How to Apply**

For a confidential discussion about this opportunity please contact **Nicole Wilson, Manager, on 08 8215 6740.**

**Closing Date: 5 pm, Friday 31 January 2025.**

Applicants from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander backgrounds are strongly encouraged to apply.

With respect, no agencies please.