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• Seeking Graduate applications for a 12-month Peer Practitioner Graduate program in Community Mental Health and Wellbeing Locals
• Fixed Term, Full Time until Feb 2027
• Hourly rate $38.65 + Super & Benefits
• Dandenong 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 the country’s leading community-managed specialist mental health service providers with a range of residential, mobile outreach, centre based and online services. We have been supporting people living with the day-to-day impacts of mental illness, as well as their families, friends and carers for over 45 years.

We provide practical and motivational support that helps people to develop the skills they need to move on, thrive and improve the quality of their lives. It’s an approach to mental health and wellbeing that looks at the whole person in the context of their daily life. Mind is committed to diversity and social inclusion.

About the role

The Mental Health and Wellbeing Local services act as front door to the mental health service system providing a continuum of care and support including clinical interventions, wellbeing and therapeutic support.

We have a Full Time, Fixed-Term (until Feb 2027) opportunity available as Graduate Peer Practitioner in the in Dandenong area. We are seeking recent Graduates from a Certificate IV or Diploma in Mental Health, or related area. The purpose of this Graduate program is to facilitate entry into the mental health sector for new graduates and to support them through a structured workplace learning program to develop the skills required for a successful career.

Key responsibilities

• Demonstrate knowledge and abilities gained from both an individuals lived/living experiences, collective impacts and Lived Expertise, and be able to support the development of these approaches across the reach of Mind’s work.
• Support your team to understand and role model the delivery of services and approaches that are consistent with recovery-oriented practice from a peer/Lived Experience perspective.
• Walk alongside a person to access local communities, education, employment, and training and reduce experiences of isolation and exclusion where a person identifies this as being important in their life.
• Plan, develop, facilitate and evaluate group work programs and utilise co-design and co-production principles ensuring that groups are based on relational practice and peer work principles.

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) in Mental Health, Peer Work, Alcohol and Other Drugs (AOD) or other health related field as designated by Mind will be considered.
• Has a lived/living experience of mental distress and recovery and understanding of, and ability and willingness to, contribute this Lived Expertise in working towards greater organisational impact.
• Spearhead co-design and coproduction in all aspects of the service including program evaluation, planning, decision making and service design.
• A commitment to learning how to work both autonomously and collaboratively while showing initiative and flexibility to follow through on commitments.

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, childcare, car leasing expenses etc.)
• Option to access Meal and Entertainment allowance up to $2,650 p.a. via Salary Packaging.
• Generous leave entitlements including 17.5% annual leave loading.
• 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.
• Workplace Banking Portal that provides convenient access to a range of banking and lifestyle benefits offered through Mind’s CommBank program.
• Professional development through regular Practice Development sessions and coaching with your supervisor.

Interested?

To apply visit Mind Careers - reference number 498995. Online applications must be submitted by 11pm Friday 6 February 2026. 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

Position Description

 PD Graduate Peer Practitioner - Dandenong Local - 20260120.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.

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