• Utilise your lived/living experience of mental health challenges to support service users achieve recovery goals and independent living
• Full Time | 38 hours/week | Ongoing
• 5 day roster
• Outreach Psychosocial Services South Australia| Central and South Adelaide

Mind strongly encourages applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, people with a lived and living 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 more than 45 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 role

We are seeking a compassionate, resilient Peer Practitioner eager to make a difference in people’s lives for a permanent, full-time opportunity to work alongside our Psychosocial Support services in Central and South Adelaide areas. You will use your lived/living experience of mental health challenges to provide intensive, person-centred, recovery-oriented support to clients, helping them achieve their wellbeing goals, build capacity and daily living skills, strengthen social connections, enhance community networks, and grow confidence to live independently. 

About the Service

Mind’s Community Services in South Australia provide person-centred, psychosocial support, including goal setting, transition planning, and assistance with application and transition to NDIS services. The services comprise a two-tiered approach to support:

• Tier 1: Intensive Crisis Support

Provide flexible, intense support and case management for a limited period (6 weeks) to reduce immediate distress, enhance personal safety, and connect clients to long-term community services.

• Tier 2: Non-acute Psychosocial Support

Offer moderate support over a four-month period (extendable to 12 months) to help clients achieve recovery goals, build daily living skills, maintain housing, and foster social connections. Assist clients with NDIS eligibility, application, and transition.

Key responsibilities

• Draw on the broader Lived Experience knowledge base to inform your practice.
• Support people to return to their community, live independently and pursue a meaningful life using the Intentional Peer Support approach.
• Deliver high-quality services to respond to the unique needs of the service users, offering a flexible and person-centred approach.
• Provide resources and support to service users to foster positive relationships with those important to them, create community networks and access to relevant services.
• Plan and deliver group programs that develop skills and focus on recovery goals.
• Participate actively in team, case and handover meetings through a lived experience and peer lens. 

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 (minimum Certificate IV) are required in Mental Health, Peer Work, Alcohol and Other Drugs (AOD) or other health related field as designated by Mind.
• Previous experience in using lived experience and expertise in a dedicated Peer role strongly desirable
• Experience, expertise and/or desire to work directly with people with mental health issues, as well as their families and carers.
• Experience or ability to acquire skills in understanding needs and working collaboratively to plan wellbeing supports using evidence informed approaches and tools.

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, child care, car leasing expenses etc.)
• Fitness Passport - Access to our corporate health and fitness program, providing you and family with access to a wide choice of fitness facilities.
• Access to our Employee Assistance Program (EAP), provided by Converge International, for you and your immediate family members 

Interested?

To obtain a position description and apply online click Apply Now to visit Mind Careers - reference number 496987.

Please contact the person below for more information.

Kathryn Cousins, Senior Service Manager
[email protected].

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 [email protected].

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.