Join our Team

• Utilise learning from lived/living experience of mental health challenges to walk alongside service users
• Assist service users with system navigation and linkages to community agencies or support
• Full Time 38 hours/week Fixed Term until 30 June 2026 |Dandenong (Locals) Location

Mind strongly encourages applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, people with a lived experience of mental ill health and recovery, and applicants from all cultures, genders, sexualities, bodies, abilities, spiritualities, ages and backgrounds.

Mind Australia is one of Australia’s largest providers of community-managed psychosocial services, supporting people experiencing mental health and wellbeing challenges to find help, hope and purpose in their lives. Operating for more than 45 years and employing more than 1,300 staff around Australia, Mind is a leading employer of people with lived experience of mental health challenges, recognising their unique ability to connect with and motivate clients and guide recovery.

About the Service – Dandenong Local

The Locals act as front door to the mental health service system and provide a continuum of care that puts the person accessing the service at the very centre of their treatment, support and care coordination. We are committed to embedding lived and living experience within all aspects of the service including program design and evaluation, leadership, service delivery and governance.

About the role

We are seeking an engaging and resourceful Peer Practitioner for a fixed term, fulltime (38 hours per week) opportunity in the Dandenong area. You will work with a person to understand and identify their story, identify how they would like to move towards what is possible in their lives by focusing on relational care.

Key responsibilities

• Welcome and performance of the intake function.
• Using a relational approach work with a person to understand what they wish to move towards in life and any barriers that may be present
• Consult, promote and build relationships with formal and informal services, networks and other community resources.
• Undertake relevant training and professional development, including regular peer specific co-reflection.
• Utilise your Lived Expertise to promote an inclusive, affirming and destigmatising culture that values lived experience and the active inclusion of service users, carers, and families in the work we do. 

What you’ll bring

• Completion of Intentional Peer Support Core and/ or Advanced Training, or Certificate IV in Mental Health Peer Work, is desirable but not required
• Tertiary qualifications (minimum Certificate IV) are required in Mental Health, Peer Work, Alcohol and Other Drugs (AOD) or other health related field as designated by Mind.
• Experience, expertise and/or desire in working directly with people with mental health issues, and their families and carers.
• Experience and/or commitment in providing empathic person-centred relational support, while recognising positionality, relative power and privilege.
• Ability to share learnings from your personal story in an appropriate and purposeful manner to support and empower service users.

Benefits

• Salary packaging up to $15,899 p.a. allows you to allocate a portion of your pre-tax income to cover living expenses (e.g. rent, mortgage, child care, car leasing expenses etc.)
• Generous leave entitlements including 8 weeks paid parental leave, 17.5% annual leave loading, and Monthly Accumulated Day off (Full time employees).
• Access to our Employee Assistance Program (EAP), provided by Converge International, for you and your immediate family members.
• Fitness Passport - Access to our corporate health and fitness program, providing you and family with access to a wide choice of fitness facilities.
• Professional development through regular Practice Development sessions and coaching with your supervisor

Interested?

To apply visit Mind Careers - reference number 497881. Online applications must be submitted by 11pm Sunday 20th July 2025. We encourage you to apply promptly as the advertisement may close early should a suitable applicant be sourced. Please contact the person below for more information.

Michelle Murray – Service Operations Manager
Michelle.Murray@mindaustralia.org.au

We are committed to making reasonable adjustments to provide a positive, barrier-free recruitment process. If you require any support or reasonable adjustments to complete your application, please contact us at hr@mindaustralia.org.au

Position Description

 PD Peer Practitioner Dandenong Local -20250624.pdf

The successful applicant is required to complete comprehensive reference and background checking prior to employment, including a Working with Children Check, NDIS Workers Screening Check and the ability to obtain vaccinations against COVID-19.