Psychosocial Peer Worker

Join our new program supporting young people across the Darling Downs. You’ll be part of a service that works closely with local Hospital and Health Services to deliver an integrated model of care, combining clinical insight with psychosocial support. 

As a Psychosocial Peer Worker, you’ll draw on your own lived or living experience of mental health challenges and recovery to provide compassionate, trauma-informed support. Your unique insights will help foster trust, empower young people, and promote resilience. Working alongside our Psychosocial Youth Workers and Hospital and Health Service teams, you’ll play a vital role in integrated care in the Darling Downs region.

A personal lived experience of mental health challenges and recovery or caring for a family member with mental health challenges, is an essential requirement for this role.

Responsibilities

• Support capacity building, wellbeing skills, and psychoeducation and co-facilitate psychosocial group sessions and outreach activities.
• Utilise your lived experience to advocate for the voice of lived experience within services and team discussions.
• Support clients by linking them to services such as physical activities, housing, and care coordination.
• Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to engage with individuals from all walks of life.
• Implement knowledge of ethical considerations around confidentiality and professional boundaries.

Perks & Benefits 

• Competitive pay and access to salary package up to $15,900 and $2,650 for meal and entertainment p/a of tax-free income and remote area benefits
• Access to EAP and discounts at hundreds of retailers

Requirements 

• Personal lived experience of mental illness and recovery
• Current Driver Licence
• Current Blue Card
• Current National Police Check
• A Certificate IV in Mental Health Peer Work (or willing to obtain)

About Open Minds

Open Minds has delivered mental health services across NSW and QLD for over 111 years, including headspace centres, Medicare Mental Health Centres, universal aftercare, psychosocial programs, and clinical care coordination.

Apply Now!

Join our team and be a part of something bigger. Real People, Real Support, Real Impact! For any questions, feel free to reach out to us at recruitment@openminds.org.au

Diversity is Strength. We encourage people from diverse ages, gender, identity, cultural backgrounds and experience including First nations peoples, Cultural and linguistically diverse, LGBTQIA+, lived/ peer, mental health experience, to apply for this position.