We seek a woman with lived experience of HIV (a positive HIV diagnosis) to join a small team providing peer support for Positive Women Victoria (PWV).

PWV is a not-for-profit organisation providing peer support and advocacy for women living with HIV.

In a peer support role, people living with HIV provide emotional assistance, guidance, and information to other people living with HIV (peers), particularly through sharing aspects of their own lived experience. Peer support aims to build connections, reduce isolation and stigma, increase confidence and self-esteem, share knowledge, and support people to access care and services.

The role entails working with members and clients of PWV to help them to develop strategies and pathways to support wellbeing, and to facilitate connections to service providers other women living with HIV.

It is not a counselling role or a social work role.

Qualifications or experience that might suit the role

• You’ve been a volunteer HIV peer support worker or completed training as a volunteer HIV peer support worker
• You’ve been a recipient of support from a HIV peer support or peer navigator service, and have a strong understanding of what peer support involves, and you meet other selection criteria for the role
• You live with HIV and have worked in a job which requires strong communication skills, the ability to work in a team, and the ability to work well and flexibly with a wide range of people
• You live with HIV and have had experience in a job such as teaching, social work, community work, health care or aged care, women’s health, or similar.

For more information about Positive Women Victoria visit: www.positivewomen.org.au.

Positive Women Victoria is an inclusive service for people living with HIV who are transgender or gender-diverse. This is not a peer role supporting people who self-identify as male.

For further information, please contact Kirsty Machon on 0478 827 217 or [email protected] using the subject line: Peer Support Worker (HIV) enquiry via EthicalJobs.

A position description is attached.