Peer Worker

Job Requisition ID: 4313
- Legal Entity: Monash Health
- Location: Dandenong, VIC, AU, 3175
- Employment Type: Part Time
- Posting Date: 12 Jun 2025

**Monash Health is a great place to work**

Monash Health is Victoria's largest and most comprehensive health service. For more than 170 years, Monash Health and its predecessors have provided safe, high-quality healthcare and service for people at every life stage. With 25,500 employees, we provide care across south-eastern metropolitan Melbourne and rural Victoria from over 40 locations; via telehealth, within local communities and in people's homes.

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**Join our team as a Level 3 Consumer Peer Worker on a ongoing Full Time basis to work in our Young Person's Mental Health Service based in the Youth Consultation and Treatment Team and Recovery and Prevention of Psychosis Team at our Dandenong location.**

**About Our Lived & Living Experience Workforce at Monash Health**

Monash Health is one of the largest Lived and Living Experience Workforce employers in Victoria, encompassing both Consultants and Peer Workers. Our Peer Workforce, which includes both Consumer and Family/Carer Peer Workers, is integral to several of our inpatient units, community teams, emergency departments, and drug and alcohol services. We are dedicated to fostering a safe and supportive workplace, reinforced by strong professional leadership, reflective supervision, and opportunities for connection through co-reflection, employee forums, and ongoing professional development.

**About the Young Persons Mental Health Service**

This role provides consumer peer support to young people that are consumers of both the Youth Consultation and Treatment Team (YCTT) and Recovery and Prevention of Psychosis Team (RAPPT). These teams offer mental health assessment and treatment to young people aged between 12-25 years old presenting with significant mental health difficutlies.

**About the Role**

Within a relationship of mutuality, Consumer Peer Workers use their own lived experience of mental health issues to provide emotional support, focus on consumer wellbeing, and promote choice, self-determination and greater opportunities for consumers to be heard. Consumer Peer Workers work as part of a multidisciplinary team and establish strong, effective working relationships with clinical, allied health, and Family/Carer Peer Work staff.

Consumer Peer Workers follow up consumers by phone, telehealth and face-to-face within the clinic, community, or the consumer's own environment in an assertive outreach manner.

**About You**

As a designated consumer lived experience role, you will have a declared personal experience of living with mental illness, and experience of the mental health system. You possess a deep understanding of mental health challenges through your own lived experience as a consumer and are passionate about supporting others. You have a genuine commitment to enhancing the lives of individuals with mental health difficulties and their carers. With a strong focus on inclusion, diversity, and person-centred care, you bring excellent communication and interpersonal skills to your work. Your enthusiasm, compassion, and ability to collaborate effectively within a multidisciplinary team set you apart. You are driven to pursue a meaningful and purposeful career, with a desire to grow as a lived experience health professional. As an experienced peer worker, you are dedicated to fostering reflective practice in collaboration with others.

**What You Need**

As a senior-level peer work role you will demonstrate the following key skills, experience and knowledge (see attached Position Description for a complete list of requirements):

- Declared personal experience of living with mental illness, including experience as a mental health service user.
- Ability to use your own lived experience to inspire hope in belief and recovery.
- Knowledge of peer work principles and the ability to support others from a mutual perspective.
- Completion of Intentional Peer Support (IPS) training.
- Completion of, or working towards, Certificate IV in Mental Health Peer Work or similar qualification.
- Minimum of 2 years' experience working as a peer worker or equivalent role is desirable.

**What the Lived & Living Experience Workforce at Monash Health offers**:

- Comprehensive orientation and induction program.
- Up to 2 hours reflective supervision per month, plus group co-reflection spaces.
- Support and mentoring from Peer Work Leads.
- Higher Education Recognition Allowance.
- Funded Lived & Living Experience professional development and training opportunities.
- Quarterly Lived & Living Experience Workforce forums.

**Monash Health employees enjoy a range of benefits including**:

- Salary packaging options that increase your take-home pay.
- Comprehensive Health and Well