Young Person Peer Worker

Employment Type: Permanent Full Time

Location: Nepean Hospital

Hours Per Week: 38

Requisition ID: REQ611221

Application Close: 28/10/2025

Position Classification & Remuneration: Dependent on Qualifications

Health Education Officer Non-Graduate: $62, $90,360.00 per annum

Health Education Officer Graduate: $71, $114,187.00 per annum

With CORE Values of Collaboration, Openness, Respect and Empowerment

working with us will ensure your professional life is provided every opportunity to succeed

and develop in your chosen career role.

About Us

Nepean Blue Mountains Local Health District (NBMLHD) is a wonderful place to expand your career and grow your skills and knowledge. As a recognised leader in the healthcare industry, we provide a range of public health services to the Nepean, Blue Mountains, and Lithgow Region.

Introducing the Nepean Adolescent Mental Health Unit (NAHMU), a fresh, purpose built 10-bed facility dedicated to supporting adolescents aged 12 to 17 who are navigating complex and severe mental health challenges. This state-of-the-art inpatient unit is the newest chapter in the Child, Youth and Family Mental Health (CYFMH) story, expanding its reach to provide compassionate, specialised care from the earliest stages of life through to young adulthood. NAHMU isn't just a place of healing, it's a vital step forward in empowering young people and their families with the support they need, when they need it most.

Be part of a ground-breaking initiative as the first Young Person Peer Worker at NBMLHD. This newly established role offers a unique opportunity to join the NAMHU interdisciplinary care team and bring lived experience to the forefront of mental health support for young people. As a Young Person Peer Worker, you'll provide compassionate, peer-informed guidance to those navigating complex mental health journeys, offering hope, connection, and practical strategies within a clinical setting.

By modelling recovery and wellness, you'll empower young people during their inpatient experience, helping them build resilience and confidence in their path forward. This is more than a role, it's a chance to shape the future of youth mental health care through authenticity, empathy, and collaboration. Apply now

This role is guided by the principles of peer support and recovery orientated practice, as outlined in the NSW Peer Work Capability Framework and Lived Experience Workforce Guidelines (Lived Experience Framework for NSW | Mental Health Commission of New South Wales).

Benefits available to eligible NBMLHD employees

• Accrued Day Off (ADO)
• Opportunity for extra tax savings through Salary Packaging
• Novated Leasing
• Great education opportunities through Education Training Service which offers over 110 courses each year
• Access to our Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for staff and family members
• Fitness Passport

NBMLHD is committed to implementing the child safe standards. For more information, please click here Child Safe Standards.

For assistance with applying through the NSW Health Career Portal please click here.

What you will bring to the role:

• Personal Lived experience of significant mental health challenges and demonstrated recovery, with the ability to meaningfully and safely draw upon this experience to support young people with complex mental health needs
• Willingness to work in acute mental health service and a Certificate IV in Mental Health Peer Work (carer) or readiness to work towards completing; or qualifications in health or other relevant qualification, e.g. degree, diploma or certificate
• Ability to engage and build rapport with young people from diverse backgrounds in a compassionate and respectful manner.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills and ability to work collaboratively with a multidisciplinary team.
• Understanding of recovery-oriented mental health principles and the unique contribution of peer support roles. Knowledge of the state and national policies and directives that inform mental health services.
• Ability to maintain clear professional boundaries, confidentiality, and ethical practice in all peer work. This includes evidence of consistent demonstration of behaviours that reinforce the CORE values of our organisations and the NSW Code of Conduct with all stakeholders including families, colleagues and others.
• Computer competence and literacy including use of health database systems and associated programs
• Willingness to be flexible within the role including ability to work after-hours and weekends or attend other CYF-MH work sites as role demands.

Employment of a temporary visa holder may only occur if no suitable permanent resident or citizen of Australia has been identified and must not exceed the duration or conditions associated with the current visa.

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