Peer Support Worker - Consumer (Youth)

$42.08 per hour plus salary packaging | Peer Support Worker - Consumer (Youth)

Permanent Full Time with a monthly ADO or Part Time Job Share Available | Located in Ballarat with expectation to travel

About the Role

As a Consumer Peer Support Worker in the Youth Team, you will use your lived experience to build genuine connections and inspire hope for young people on their recovery journey. This role offers opportunities to develop peer work skills, contribute to a recovery-oriented service, and help shape youth-friendly supports. You will work alongside clinical and non-clinical staff while bringing a unique peer perspective that promotes choice, empowerment, and meaningful engagement.

Core Duties

• Provide one-to-one peer support to young people using lived experience and recovery principles.
• Build trusting relationships that promote hope, self-determination, and wellbeing.
• Support young people to identify goals, strengths, and pathways to recovery.
• Facilitate or co-facilitate peer groups, workshops, and engagement activities.
• Advocate for the voice and lived experience perspectives of young people within the service.
• Maintain accurate records and contribute to team discussions and service improvement activities.
• You must have a valid drivers licence to be successful as you will be required to travel within the Grampians region on a regular basis.

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Culture & Benefits 

At Grampians Health, we recognise our staff are our greatest asset.  We are committed to providing a safe and healthy environment for our staff, patients, residents, visitors, volunteers and contractors at all sites.

• Flexible work arrangements and purchase leave opportunities
• Salary packaging for living expenses such as rent/mortgage plus meals, entertainment & holidays
• Access to Fitness Passport membership
• Staff rewards and recognition programs

Interested?
Click APPLY or if you wish to discuss the role prior to applying, contact Jessy Smith, Active Lived and Living Experience Team Leader on 0477 443 097 for a confidential discussion.

We're actively seeking candidates for this role and will review applications as they are submitted. Applications will close when the position is filled.

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About Grampians Health

Grampians Health provides healthcare to a large region at our campuses based in Ballarat, Dimboola, Edenhope, Horsham and Stawell. Our mission is to deliver sustainable healthcare tailored to evolving community and workforce needs. We strive to enhance services and careers, providing quality healthcare to rural and regional communities. Joining Grampians Health means being part of a diverse team, with a variety of career opportunities in acute, maternity, mental health, allied health, aged care and support services.

Ballarat Region

Ballarat is the largest centre in Western Victoria and the state’s fastest growing inland city. Uniquely located within easy access to Melbourne, Ballarat has some of Australia’s most significant heritage buildings and natural landscapes. To learn more about Ballarat click here - Visit Ballarat

Diversity and Inclusion
All appointments are subject to a satisfactory police records check, immunisation clearance and Working with Children check and/or NDIS Worker Screening Check. All employees must be willing and able to wear Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) when required, which at a minimum is a surgical mask. Additional PPE requirements are role dependent.

Grampians Health is a child safe organisation, committed to the safety and wellbeing of all children and young people. Grampians Health is committed to providing a diverse and inclusive workforce. We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with disability, people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, mature age workers and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer (or questioning), intersex and asexual LGBTQIA+.