Peer Worker

Peer Worker

Posted:

11/11/2025

Closing Date:

25/11/2025

Job Type:

Contract

Location:

Tweed Heads

Job Category:

Community Services & Development

Embarking on a career journey with Social Futures means becoming part of a mission that goes beyond just a job. We are a voice for social change, with a history spanning over 49 years.

Are you ready to start a new chapter that combines your lived expertise, compassion, and professional insight to walk beside young people navigating life's challenges?

We are looking for a Peer Worker to join our headspace team as part of a multidisciplinary, youth-focused service that supports young people aged 12–25 years.

headspace provides early intervention across four areas of mental health, physical health (including sexual health), alcohol and other drug support, and work and study support. In this role, you'll share hope, understanding, and real-life insight to help young people feel seen, supported, and empowered to take the next step in their recovery journey.

Job Description

The Peer Worker position gives you an opportunity to:

• Build safe, authentic, and respectful relationships with young people, drawing on your lived experience to foster trust, hope, and self-determination.
• Support young people to navigate mental health and wellbeing services, referral pathways, and practical resources to help achieve their goals.
• Collaborate with clinicians, counsellors, and Community Engagement team to deliver trauma-informed, recovery-oriented, and culturally responsive support.
• Engage families, carers, and natural supports where appropriate, promoting shared understanding and connection.
• Contribute your insight to strengthen service design, staff learning, and continuous improvement across the headspace program.
• Participate in reflective supervision and learning that supports your wellbeing, boundaries, and sustainability in the role.

The role operates within a multidisciplinary environment that values inclusion, curiosity, and innovation.

The Heart of Peer Work

Peer Work is human work that is grounded in connection, mutuality, and hope.

It's about walking beside people, not ahead of them.

It's not therapy. It's not fixing. It's being with.

At Social Futures, Peer Workers use their lived experience safely and purposefully to build trust, share hope, and model recovery.

We're looking for people who are not only passionate, but ready to bring heart into systems, and hope into workplaces.

To thrive in this role, you'll bring qualities that keep peer work authentic and sustainable:

• Organisationally ready - comfortable working within policies, structures, and multidisciplinary teams.
• Emotionally aware - able to share lived experience in ways that are reflective, grounded, and safe for both you and the people you support.
• Boundaried and reflective - committed to supervision, growth, and sustainability.
• Collaborative - confident in your peer lens, and kind in your approach.

At Social Futures

Your lived expertise matters. We stand beside our people the same way we walk beside our communities, with compassion, curiosity, and respect.

You'll have the backing of a Lived Experience Practice Lead to support your practice, within a team that values authenticity, inclusion, and wellbeing.

Among the benefits, we offer flexible working options, access to ongoing learning and development, generous salary packaging, a staff wellbeing program, and the opportunity to bank additional days of leave each year.

Our values are Integrity, Learning, and Inclusion. These are not just words on a wall; they're woven through every part of who we are at Social Futures. They guide how we show up for our people and our communities every day.

Why you'll love working with us:

• Your voice will be valued and heard in our mission to support positive social change.
• You'll be part of a supportive, diverse, and inclusive environment that celebrates individuality.
• You'll have access to professional supervision, ongoing development, a connected peer support network, and guidance from our Lived Experience Practice Lead.

The successful candidate will have:

• A lived experience of mental health challenges and/or alcohol and other drug use.
• A Certificate IV in Mental Health Peer Support
• Demonstrated ability to draw on lived experience to support others
• Strong understanding of the experiences and needs of young people aged 12–25.
• Experience working collaboratively within multidisciplinary teams and promoting recovery-oriented principles.
• Effective communication, facilitation, and reflective practice skills.
• A commitment to safe practice, wellbeing, and professional growth.

We are proud to announce

Social Futures has been recognised as an accredited Great Workplace by WRK+. Our amazing team makes our workplace special.

We are a Rainbow Tick accredited organisation and an equal opportunity employer. We actively recruit from key communities including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, LGBTIQSB+ communities, people living with disability, people with lived and living experience, and people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.

Working with Children and National Police Checks are mandatory requirements for all staff.

How to Apply:

A cover letter demonstrating how your skills, education and professional experience meet the requirements of the role as outlined in the position description, should be submitted with your application.

Applications close Tuesday 25 November.

We ensure clear communication and a response for every applicant.

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