Recovery Mentor

4 days ago

Perth, Western Australia Uniting WA Full time $60,000 - $80,000 per year
  • Use your lived experience to inspire hope and support recovery.
  • Be part of a supportive team in an inclusive, values-driven environment.
  • Grow your skills through access to training and development.

About the role

We are excited to be seeking a Recovery Mentor (Lived Experience) to join our Recovery Options team based in Joondalup. In this role, you will draw on your personal journey with mental health challenges, recovery, and service engagement to provide peer support to others.

Through intentionally sharing your experiences, you will walk alongside participants in the community, supporting them to create recovery plans, develop wellbeing strategies, and set personal goals. Using a trauma-informed, strength-based approach, you'll help participants build skills, engage with their communities, make informed choices, and develop meaningful relationships.

Additionally, you will support the broader team to understand and integrate the lived experience perspective into service delivery, fostering a culture that values empathy, inclusion, and recovery-oriented practice.

This is a 0.8 FTE Maximum Term role until 30 June 2026 (with the possibility of extension) delivering outreach services across the Perth North Metro area.

About you

To be successful you will have the following key attributes:

  • Lived experience of mental health challenges with a demonstrated recovery journey.
  • Ability to use personal experience safely and purposefully to support others' recovery.
  • Knowledge of recovery-oriented approaches, peer support, and trauma-informed practice.
  • Relevant tertiary qualifications or commensurate (i.e. 1 years+) experience and relevant professional development.
  • Skills in relationship building and stakeholder engagement and management (internal and external).

You must be able to obtain / provide:

  • Police Clearance
  • Working with Children Check
  • First Aid
  • Valid Western Australia Driver's License

Working with Uniting

At Uniting, we exist to inspire people, enliven communities and confront injustice.

We act with impact. We work to address the causes of vulnerability and disadvantage, and we stand for a just society where individuals and communities are valued and connected

As an organisation, we celebrate our diversity and welcome all people regardless of ethnicity, faith, age, ability, culture, language, gender identity, or sexual orientation.

We're a not-for-profit community services organisation of the Uniting Church Western Australia and part of the UnitingCare Australia network.

Our values

We're bold and respectful, compassionate and imaginative. And we'll support you to belong and thrive.

We value social and cultural diversity, and we're committed to a safe workplace.  We strongly encourage applications from First Nations Peoples, people who have lived experience, people with a disability, people from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds and mature age workers.

Uniting is committed to providing a nurturing environment where all children feel safe, valued and heard.

How to apply

Enquiries can be directed to Mikayla Ritchie at 

Please apply through the SEEK website, providing a covering letter together with current resume. Please note shortlisting will commence immediately.

A position description outlining further details will be available

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