Join our Team

• Utilise your lived/living experience of mental health challenges to coach and mentor a team, empowering them to deliver recovery-orientated services that support individuals’ wellbeing goals
• Internal opportunity | Fixed-term, full-time until 30 June 2027
• The Youth Psychosocial Support Package (YPSP) | Perth 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.

About the role

This is an internal opportunity for a highly motivated, experienced Peer Practitioner Lead within the Psychosocial Supports team in Perth. In this role, you will draw on your lived/living experience of mental health and/or alcohol and other drug challenges to provide leadership, mentoring, and coaching to a peer support workforce.

Your work will champion the voice of lived experience, promote recovery-oriented and trauma-informed approaches, and support co-design practices that place the relationship and service user at the centre. You will ensure consistent, high-quality peer work across programs in line with Mind’s models, frameworks, and values.

Key responsibilities

• Utilise your own lived/living experience to guide practice, advocate for human rights, and foster a culture that values lived experience across services.
• Provide coaching, mentoring, and practice leadership to Peer Practitioners, ensuring recovery-oriented, trauma-informed, and intentional peer support approaches are consistently applied.
• Deliver high quality services responding to the unique needs of young people offering a flexible and relationally-centred approach. 
• Build and maintain relationships with families, carers, community services, and other stakeholders to ensure coordinated, integrated, and high-quality service delivery.

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 are required in Mental Health, Peer Work, Alcohol and Other Drugs (AOD) or other health related field as designated by Mind.
• Ability to coach, mentor and develop a team to achieve best quality service outcomes including experience in the provision of professional supervision.
• Previous experience in using lived experience and expertise in a dedicated Peer role strongly desirable.

 Interested?

Please review the attached position description for further information.

 PD Peer Practitioner Lead (YPSP) 20250207.pdf

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

Anoushka Wootton, General Manager - Western Australia Operations (Lived Expertise)

Anoushka.Wootton@mindaustralia.org.au

Mind is committed to a barrier-free recruitment process. If you require any adjustments to complete your application, please email hr@mindaustralia.org.au

Please note this opportunity is open to Mind Australia employees only and should not be shared externally.