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LGBTIQA + Youth Peer Practitioner
- Use your lived experience as a member of the LGBTIQA+ community to support young people on their recovery journey.
- Permanent, Part Time | 30 hours per week | Monday - Friday
- Newly established service located in Parkville
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 almost 50 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
The Adult and Youth Prevention and Recovery Care (A&YPARC) service is a residential, short-term recovery program supporting people aged 16–65 years experiencing mental health challenges. Delivered in partnership with Victorian health services, the program provides an alternative to hospital admission and supports people transitioning from acute mental health settings back into the community.
Operating within a recovery-oriented and trauma-informed framework, the service provides 24-hour support through individual recovery planning, group programs, skill development, and connection to community-based supports.
About the role
We are seeking a passionate and self-motivated LGBTIQA+ Youth Peer Worker to join our team in Parkville on a permanent part-time basis (30 hours per week).
Drawing on your lived and living experience of mental health and/or alcohol and other drug challenges, you will provide authentic, recovery-focused peer support to young people accessing the service. You will use your lived expertise as a member of the LGBTIQA+ community to foster hope, connection, empowerment, and inclusion.
Working alongside a multidisciplinary team, you will advocate for human rights, champion lived experience perspectives, and support people to achieve their recovery goals through mutuality, shared learning, and meaningful relationships.
Key responsibilities
- Draw on your lived experience as a member of the LGBTIQA+ community to provide recovery-oriented peer support and champion the voice of lived experience.
- Build authentic relationships that foster hope, connection, self-advocacy and recovery through Intentional Peer Support and mutuality.
- Support people holistically, recognising the intersection of mental health with alcohol and other drug use, trauma, family violence, self-injury, suicide, culture and identity.
- Facilitate groups, workshops and recovery-focused activities that promote wellbeing, community connection and meaningful participation.
- Collaborate with families, carers, community services and multidisciplinary team members to provide education, referrals and coordinated support.
What you’ll bring
- Completion of Intentional Peer Support Core and/ or Advanced Training, or Certificate IV in Mental Health Peer Work
- Lived/living experience and willingness to support clients through sharing your own learnings and recovery orientated practice.
- Identify as LGBTIQA+ young person, and willing to share learnings from your personal story.
- Experience, expertise and/or desire in working directly with LGBTIQA+ young people with mental health issues, and their families and carers.
- Able to obtain and provide evidence of vaccinations against Measles, Mumps, Rubella, Varicella, Hepatitis B, Pertussis/Diphtheria/Tetanus, Influenza, and COVID-19.
- Able to obtain CPR and First Aid certifications.
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 8 weeks paid parental leave, 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.
- Professional development through regular Practice Development sessions and coaching with your supervisor.
Interested?
To apply visit Mind Careers - reference number 500130. Online applications must be submitted by 11pm Sunday, 2 August 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.
Julz Gahly, Acting Service Manager
Mind is committed to a barrier-free recruitment process. If you require any adjustments to complete your application, please email hr@mindaustralia.org.au
Position Description
PD LGBTIQA Youth Peer Practitioner (YPARC Parkville) 20260709.pdf
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.
