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Peer Practitioner
- Provide an alternative to traditional mental health responses through the practice of mutuality
- Enjoy extra leave perks, wellbeing support + wellbeing & fitness access for you and family
- Permanent | Part time 4 days/week | Help aHead - Sydney
About the Service
Help aHead aims to improve access to mental health support for the community by delivering services that address people’s social, physical and emotional needs. It will provide access to psychological and psychosocial support, care coordination, and local service navigation, with the capacity to scale and meet a wide range of mental health needs, including those with co-occurring conditions or complex psychosocial barriers.
About the role
We are seeking an empowering and insightful Peer Practitioner for a permanent, part time (30.4 hours per week) opportunity in the Sydney area. You will utilise the learning from lived/living experience of mental health challenges and/or alcohol and drug challenges to walk alongside service users providing an alternative to traditional mental health responses
Key responsibilities
- Provide peer-based support to people living with mental health concerns by building trust through shared experiences, holding hope, and offering consistent, empathetic engagement
- Work within a multidisciplinary team at Help aHead to deliver effective services.
- Supporting the facilitation of groups, including setup and pack-up, contributing from a lived experience lens, and providing guidance and support to individual attendees
- Assist clients to navigate community agencies and supports that will assist them in addressing barriers to full social, educational and employment participation, as required.
- Be grounded in the discipline of Lived Expertise, drawing from your own lived experience.
Your Benefits
- Transform Lives: Play a vital role in empowering individuals, helping them achieve their goals and improve their quality of life.
- Competitive Salary Packaging: Maximize your take-home pay by salary packaging up to $15,900.
- Fitness Passport: Take advantage of our discounted workplace health and fitness program, offering you and your family access to a wide range of gyms, pools, and fitness centres at a fraction of the regular cost. For 50% less than a typical gym membership, enjoy unlimited visits and stay motivated to maintain your health and well-being.
- Leave Perks: Enjoy leave perks including birthday leave, study leave, and an extra annual picnic day leave!
What you’ll bring
- 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 ODMH.
- Completion of Intentional Peer Support Core and/ or Advanced Training, is desirable but not required as training will be provided.
- 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.
- Ability to share learnings from your personal story in an appropriate and purposeful manner to support, empower, speak about the times of hopelessness and the importance of hope, and support the recovery of clients.
Additional Details
One Door Mental Health requires all staff to have a current Working with Children's Check, NDIS Worker Screening clearance, and appropriate COVID-19 Vaccination. One Door Mental Health is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer and is committed to engaging a diverse workforce. We strongly encourage applications from people from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander background, people with disability, people from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds and mature aged applicants.
Interested to Apply?
To apply visit Mind Careers - reference number 499641. Online applications must be submitted by 11pm Monday 1st June 2026. Please contact the person below for more information.
Tanya Boyle – Clinical Manager, Project Lead – Help aHead
Tanya.boyle@onedoor.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@onedoor.org.au or via hr@mindaustralia.org.au
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