Peer Worker, Next Steps

2 weeks ago

Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia Grand Pacific Health Full time $60,000 - $80,000 per year

About Us
Grand Pacific Health (GPH) is a for-purpose community-based organisation. GPH provides high quality health services to assist people in the management of their physical and mental health. GPH's mission is to provide equitable heath care with an emphasis on helping vulnerable and at risk of disadvantage populations as well as regional communities.

GPH employs over 400 staff including many qualified health and other professionals including peer workers and community workers. GPH operations cover a large regional geographical footprint in NSW and ACT.

About The Position
Peer work is a unique space that allows people to connect and build genuine relationships in the context of mental health services.

We are looking for a Peer Worker to join our highly successful Next Steps Program to provide open and effective support to people accessing or considering connection to GPH mental health services.

As a Peer Worker, your own lived experience of life changing mental health challenges, mental health service use, as well as periods of healing and personal recovery will be critical to support people accessing the program with their own lived experience. You will aim to nurture hope and self-determination to inspire the people that you support on their journey to recovery. You will draw on your lived experience and personal journey towards recovery by purposefully disclosing your lived experience openly, appropriately, and effectively to build mutual relationships with the people you support that also have a similar lived experience.

This is a part-time (30 hours per week), fixed term position until 30 June 2026.

We Are Looking For Someone With

  • Certificate IV in Mental Health Peer Work (or commencement or a willingness to work towards qualification within first 6 months of employment).
  • Direct lived experience of life changing mental health challenges, mental health service use, as well as periods of healing and personal recovery.
  • Commitment to safely and purposely share lived experience to engender hope and support others on their personal recovery journey.
  • Thorough understanding of the importance of personal and professional boundaries, ethical behaviour, policies, and procedures

Why join GPH?

  • Flexible work arrangements to find your best work life balance
  • Continuous learning and development opportunities
  • Regular supervision and support
  • Increase your take home pay with salary packaging of up to $15,900 in living expenses and an additional benefit of up to $2,650 in meals and entertainment
  • We make a positive difference to the lives of those we support

Interested?
Visit our website to download Position Description and our Employee Benefits Information and click the 'apply' button to submit your application.

Please ensure that your application addresses the selection criteria detailed in the position description, or it may mean that your application does not progress to the next step in our recruitment process.

For more information please contact:
Jaci Smith, Manager - Mental Health on or email

Applications close: 7 September 2025

  • Please note that short-listing of candidates will commence prior to the closure of this role, so please do not delay submitting your application.

We welcome applications from people with lived experience of mental health, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people from the LGBTQI community, multicultural communities and people with a disability.

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