Wellbeing Navigator Peer

• Utilise your real-life experience to engage, encourage and support people in our community
• Full-time (negotiable) opportunity to join a multidisciplinary team
• Not for profit, values-based company + salary packaging up to $15,899 + 17.5% leave loading

Wellways is committed to reconciliation, lived experience and inclusivity. We strongly encourage and warmly welcome people from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, people with a lived experience of mental health and disability and people who identify as LGBTIQA+ to apply. Even if you only meet some of the criteria, we'd love to hear from you.

About the Opportunity

As a Wellbeing Navigator Peer, you'll walk alongside people in our community on their mental health and wellbeing journey, offering guidance through a range of person-centred supports and services. You'll help individuals connect with what matters most to them, whether it's achieving personal goals, fostering healing, finding social inclusion or strengthening their sense of belonging.

This is a unique opportunity that exists with the goal of making sure everyone in our community is supported, included and empowered.

Key elements of your new role will include:

• Welcome people accessing the service and assist with intake processes
• Provide intentional, strengths-based peer support
• Offer one-on-one support and collaborative care planning
• Assist people to navigate and access mental health, wellbeing and community services
• Support people to build everyday skills, resilience and confidence

The role will initially be based in Frankston while a permanent site for the Port Phillip service is confirmed. Once established, the role will transition to the new service location.​

Please visit the Wellways Careers site to download a copy of the position description to see further details relating to this role, or see attached.

An opportunity exists for the role to be offered on a part-time basis, with a minimum commitment of four days per week, for the right candidate. Salary will be paid on a pro rata basis.

About You

You have personal lived experience with mental health challenges, psychological distress, and/or substance use, and you've navigated your own recovery journey. Through this experience and your training, you've gained valuable insight that allows you to support others with empathy, understanding and hope.

You are passionate about peer work and comfortable drawing on your lived experience in a safe, purposeful and recovery-focused way to support people on their own wellbeing journey.

To be successful in this role, you will need:

• Personal experience of mental distress and accessing and navigating healthcare services, including mental health services and a willingness to draw upon your experiences and recovery journey to inform your work
• 1+ year relevant work experience in the Mental Health Sector
• Certificate IV/Diploma in Mental Health, AOD or tertiary qualification in social science or Intentional Peer Support (IPS) Training or willingness to undertake peer training & mentoring
• Evidence of right to work in Australia
• Current valid Driver's License and the ability to undertake travel for the role
• Satisfactory National Police Check, Working with Children Check and NDIS Worker Screening Check, or willingness to undertake
• NDIS Workers Orientation Module certificate - free online course

About the Service

The Mental Health and Wellbeing Local is a newly established service in St Kilda that provides free, voluntary and easy-to-access support for people aged 26 years and over experiencing mental health challenges, including co-occurring substance use or addiction. Delivered in partnership with Wellways and the Alfred Care Group as part of Bayside Health, the service is community-led, person-centred and shaped by lived experience.

Mental Health and Wellbeing Locals use a "no wrong door" approach, making it easier for people to access the support they need close to home, family and community.

What we will offer you…

• A purpose driven culture where people can thrive, everyone is respected, and differences are valued
• An equitable, diverse, and socially inclusive work environment
• Salary packaging up to $15,899 enables you to spend a portion of your salary before it is taxed to pay for things like rent, mortgage repayments, car leasing
• Meal and Entertainment allowance via salary packaging up to $2,650 per annum
• Receive 17.5% leave loading every time you take annual leave
• Paid parental leave after 12 months of ongoing employment
• Access for you and your family to our Employee Assistance Program

For a confidential discussion about the role, we encourage you to contact Anna Bendell on 0403 109 576.

We'd love to get to know you!

Please include a cover letter as well as a resume/CV in your application.

Wellways is committed to the safeguarding of children and vulnerable people. Successful applicants must undergo a comprehensive screening process prior to their commencement.