Utilise your lived or living experience to walk alongside others and support recovery through connection, hope and shared understanding

• Permanent, full-time | 7-day rotating roster
• Internal Opportunity | Cairns Medicare Mental Health Centre
• Base Salary from $80,008 (pro rata) + Super 12%| SCHADS Level 3

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.

About the role

This is an internal opportunity for a self-aware LGBTIQA+ Peer Practitioner to join our multidisciplinary team at the Cairns Medicare Mental Health Centre.

Drawing on your lived or living experience of mental health and/or alcohol and other drug (AOD) challenges, you will walk alongside people experiencing distress, crisis, or mental health challenges, providing person-centred, recovery-oriented support grounded in mutuality and shared understanding.

As a Peer Practitioner, you will champion the voice of lived experience, promote human rights, and utilise Intentional Peer Support (IPS) and recovery-oriented practices to support individuals to identify their strengths, achieve their goals, build hope, and reconnect with community.

Key responsibilities

• Provide individual peer support grounded in your own LGBTIQA+ lived/living experience of mental health and/or AOD challenges.
• Utilise the Intentional Peer Support (IPS) framework to walk alongside individuals in distress.
• Support individuals to identify strengths, goals and opportunities for recovery, independence and community participation.
• Develop and facilitate groups that foster peer connection, wellbeing and inclusion for LGBTIQA+ community members.
• Assist people to navigate systems and connect with services and supports that promote wellbeing and recovery.
• Champion lived experience and recovery-oriented practice within a multidisciplinary environment.
• Support co-design and continuous service improvement through peer co-reflection, supervision, and ongoing professional development.

What you’ll bring

• Lived or living experience of mental health and/or AOD challenges as a member of the LGBTIQA+ community, with a willingness to share your learnings to support others.
• Tertiary qualifications (minimum Certificate IV) in Mental Health, Peer work, AOD, or other health-related field are required.
• Completion of Intentional Peer Support Core and/ or Advanced Training, or Certificate IV in Mental Health Peer Work is highly desirable.
• A commitment to recovery-oriented, trauma-informed, person-centred and anti-oppressive practice.
• Availability to work a rotating roster including evenings and weekends.

Interested?

Please find below the position description for your review.

 PD LGBTIQA+ Peer Practitioner (CMMHC) - 20260303 LE reviewed.pdf

Online applications must be submitted by 11pm, Saturday 29 August 2026. Please contact the person below if you require more information.

For more information, please contact:

Gabrielle Brown - Centre Manager Cairns Medicare Mental Health Centre

Gabrielle.Brown@mindaustralia.org.au

Please note this role is open for Mind Australia employees only so do not share this information with external parties

The successful applicant is required to complete comprehensive reference and background checking prior to employment, including a Working with Children Check and NDIS Workers Screening Check.