Recovery Coach. Permanent Part Time

Job no: 505880

Employment type: Part Time

Location: Adelaide

Categories: Disability, Mental Health

About the Organisation

Almost half of Australian adults will experience a mental health illness at some point in their life. You can make a meaningful difference to the Australian community by joining the Life Without Barriers team. Our mental health teams provide client-led, recovery-orientated mental health support, creating positive change in such a vital industry.

Life Without Barriers is a leading social purpose, not for profit organisation of 8,000+ employees working in more than 500+ communities across Australia. We support children, young people and families, people with disability, older people and people with mental illness. We work with people who are homeless and refugees and asylum seekers.

We want to employ people who reflect the diversity of our clients to ensure we can support each client's individual needs and wants. We encourage people of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander background and people with disability to apply.

About the Role

Permanent part time opportunity where you will provide support to people with psychosocial disabilities to increase their independence, social and economic participation to assist consumers to take more control of their lives and to better manage complex challenges of day to day living. This position is 4 days per week (or 30 hours across a 5 day week) where you can work from home or our Unley office with travel required across the Adelaide metro area to meet with clients.

Key Responsibilities

• Engage consumers across the Adelaide metro area and develop recovery-enabling relationships.
• Contribute lived or learned experience of recovery perspectives alongside the broader system of supports to ensure that supports provided are recovery oriented.
• Assist in designing, developing and maintaining individual recovery plans in line with consumers NDIS plan
• Support consumers to identify early warning signs and identify strategies and adjustments in supports that may be required to meet fluctuating needs.
• Provide recovery focussed coaching to increase skills, personal capacity and motivation.
• Provide direct and practical support to consumers so that they gain/maintain independent living skills.
• Support consumers to gain maximum benefit from their NDIS plan by linking with providers, mainstream services and other relevant supports.

Skills & Experience

• Minimum Certificate IV in Mental Health Peer Work or Certificate IV Mental Health Community Services, and relevant experience in mental health related peer work or psychosocial rehabilitation and support.
• Demonstrated ability and willingness to use lived experience of mental health to provide support and enable recovery.
• Current unrestricted SA driver's license and reliable vehicle to travel between clients.
• Demonstrated ability to work with people from diverse cultural backgrounds including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
• Demonstrated experience collaborating with mental health services in planning and coordinating supports to implement a person's plan.
• Working knowledge of Mental Health Recovery Principles and application of Recovery Orientated Practice.
• Demonstrated knowledge and understanding of psychosocial disability and recovery, including trauma-informed practice, supported decision making and family inclusive practice.
• Demonstrated ability to engage with consumers to build a trusting coaching relationship that motivates and builds capacity to problem solve, review progress, reflect and learn.

Successful candidates will be required to clear probity checks including a National Criminal History Record Check, an NDIS Workers Screening Check and an SA Working with Children Check.

Benefits

• Play a real and active part in improving the lives of people with psychosocial disabilities
• Work in partnership with and gain knowledge and experience from a clinical team
• Be supported by and learn from a diverse team, many with long tenure

How to Apply

Include your resume and cover letter in one document, click 'Apply' and follow the prompts. For any enquiries relating to the position, contact Mikaella Latimore at

Candidates with disabilities who require adjustments to the recruitment process or the application form in an alternate format can visit for information on our access and inclusion work and how to contact us directly.

Applications close at midnight 5 November 2025.

Advertised: 28 Oct 2025 Cen. Australia Daylight Time

Applications close: 05 Nov :55 Cen. Australia Daylight Time