LGBTIQA+ Mental Health & Wellbeing Peer Support Worker – Darebin

• LGBTIQA+ peer support - Mental health and recovery
• Lived experience valued
• Part-time role based in Darebin
• Inclusive, values-led NFP team
• Salary: SCHADS Level 3 | Part-time 0.8 FTE + super + NFP salary packaging

About Drummond Street Services

Drummond Street Services is a not-for-profit, non-denominational agency with over 130 years of delivering innovative services that strengthen families and communities across Victoria. We provide family services, mental health and wellbeing support, relationship counselling, parenting programs, and specialist services that reflect the diversity of the communities we work alongside.

We are committed to creating meaningful change through evidence-informed and trauma-informed practice. Our work is grounded in social justice and inclusion, supporting our teams to deliver services that are responsive to the needs of children, young people, individuals, families, and communities.

About the Role

Join Drummond Street Services as an LGBTIQA+ Mental Health & Wellbeing Peer Support Worker within the Darebin Mental Health and Wellbeing Service. DS works in partnership with Neami National and Northern Health to deliver an innovative, multidisciplinary service based on a "no wrong door" approach.

Drawing on your own lived experience of mental health challenges, recovery, mental health crisis and/or caring for someone experiencing mental health challenges, you will provide peer support that builds hope, confidence, connection and recovery.

Working as part of a highly collaborative multidisciplinary team, you will support LGBTIQA+ consumers through outreach and centre-based support, intake, service promotion, partnership activities and case reviews. You will use your lived experience purposefully and safely to support consumers to explore their own recovery journey, build community connections and strengthen their wellbeing.

To be successful in this role, you must identify as LGBTIQA+ and have lived experience relevant to mental health and recovery.

Duties

• Build trusting and professional relationships with LGBTIQA+ consumers while maintaining appropriate worker/consumer boundaries.
• Use your lived experience thoughtfully and purposefully to provide emotional support, promote hope and support recovery.
• Work with consumers to identify their strengths, interests, relationships and community connections and build their capacity to participate in their community.
• Provide peer support through outreach, centre-based activities and other appropriate support approaches.
• Contribute to group activities, service promotion, intake interviews, partnership activities and case reviews.
• Actively contribute to an integrated multidisciplinary team and recovery-oriented service delivery.

Skills & Experience

• Lived experience and understanding mental health challenges and recovery
• Identify as LGBTIQA+ and demonstrate a commitment to working with LGBTIQA+ communities.
• Understanding of recovery-oriented, strengths-based and peer support approaches.
• Understanding of intersectionality and the needs, experiences and sensitivities of people from diverse backgrounds, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and culturally and linguistically diverse communities.
• Ability to work creatively, show initiative, contribute ideas and work collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team.
• Strong personal and/or professional support networks that promote resilience, wellbeing and safe use of lived experience.

Desirable

• Intentional Peer Support core training, Cert IV Mental Health, Mental Health Peer Work, equivalent or above
• Involved and actively participating in the local community

Please review the attached Position Description, which outlines the full list of responsibilities and key selection criteria.

Culture

We value lived experience, collaboration, mutuality and continuous learning, creating an environment where peer workers are supported to use their experience purposefully while maintaining their own wellbeing and professional boundaries.

We are an intersectional organisation committed to equity and inclusion. We strongly encourage applications from First Nations people, LGBTIQA+ people, people with disability, people of colour, public housing residents, and people with lived experience, as we recognise that diverse perspectives strengthen our practice and better reflect the communities we serve.

Benefits

• SCHADS Level 3 salary + superannuation.
• NFP salary packaging – up to $15,900 tax free each year.
• Part-time 0.8 FTE position based in Darebin – contract until 30 June 2028, with option of extension subject to funding
• Professional development and ongoing learning opportunities.
• Supportive multidisciplinary team environment.
• Opportunities to contribute your lived experience to service delivery and community engagement.
• Meaningful work supporting LGBTIQA+ consumers experiencing mental health challenges.

How to Apply

Click Apply Now to submit your resume and a cover letter addressing the key selection criteria. Applications close midnight on the closing date. Shortlisted applicants will be contacted for interview and asked to provide evidence of their qualifications where applicable.

For a confidential discussion about the role, please contact Marcus Abbonizio on 0461 264 528 or marcus.abbonizio@ds.org.au using the subject line: LGBTIQA+ Mental Health & Wellbeing Peer Support Worker – Darebin enquiry via EthicalJobs.

Drummond Street Services is committed to child safety and to creating and maintaining a child safe organisation in line with Victorian Child Safe Standards. The safeguarding and wellbeing of children and young people is central to our work. We have zero tolerance for child abuse and are committed to acting in the best interests of children and young people. All staff are required to participate in a thorough recruitment and screening process, including holding a current Victorian Working with Children Check and completing a National Police Check.