Family Peer Worker

1 week ago


Sunshine, Australia Orygen, The National Centre of Excellence in Youth Mental Health Full time

Primary Clinical Services Sunshine Part-time

10/3/2025
- Sunshine location | Close to public transport, access to parking.
- Access to NFP salary packaging | Join a multidisciplinary team

About Orygen

Orygen is Australia’s Centre of Excellence in Youth Mental Health and the largest translational research organisation dedicated to youth mental health in the world.

For over 30 years, Orygen has led groundbreaking early intervention and developed evidence-based models of care to improve the mental health outcomes of young people aged 12-25.

About the job

The Family Peer Worker will work within a team of Family Peer Workers who offer empathetic listening, provide support and information, connection and peer support drawing on their own lived experience of supporting their own children, young adult family members and significant others with mental ill health.

Reporting to the Family Peer Work Lead, you will:

- Promote and advocate for the voice of families within the local multi-disciplinary team.
- Offer informal drop-in and appointment-based services for the families of young people who attend headspace to provide support, information, psychoeducation, empathic listening and connection.
- Offer empathic listening and provide support to families of young people attending headspace. This will be a person-centred, strengths-based approach and may be face-to-face, by telephone or using video conferencing platforms.
- Help with linking families into other family support, mental health, AOD and other relevant services in their area.
- Our headspace sites operate after 5pm multiple times a week, availability to work across rotating shifts required._

Skills and experience

The following criteria must be met for consideration for this position:

- A personal experience of supporting a child and/or young adult family member who is/was experiencing mental ill health or alcohol and other drugs who is not currently receiving services from an Orygen led headspace centre, YPARC or Orygen.
- Capacity to share own lived experience in a meaningful, appropriate and considered way.
- Capacity and willingness to conduct groups with families.
- High level interpersonal skills, including the ability to liaise effectively with a diverse range of people, families and stakeholders.
- Cert IV in Peer Work, and/ or Foundations of Peer Work and/or Core Intentional Peer Support training would be desirable.

**Benefits**:

- Salary package between $66,018 - $72,045 commensurate with skills and experience pro rata + 11.5% super + NFP salary packaging up to $15,900 + $2,600 meals and entertainment card.
- Make a real impact on young people in a dynamic, youth-centred environment.
- Be part of a team that values collaboration and innovative thinking, driving impactful results.
- Play a key role in innovative research, clinical services, and community engagement.

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