About the role

Join our dynamic team where we provide essential community-based outreach and recovery-oriented support to individuals aged 16 and over. As a Mental Health Peer Support Worker, you will draw on your own lived experience to empower others in their recovery journey and help them achieve greater independence and well-being.

The role is part of Housing and Accommodation Support Initiative (HASI) programs that deliver specialist community based psychosocial support services for people aged 16 years and older, with serious mental illness

• Permanent part-time position working 4 days / week across a 7-day rotating roster; 8:00am – 4:06pm
• Located in Taree with travel across surrounding areas
• SCHADS Level 2 ( Commensurate with experience) + salary packaging

 About you in the role

• Provide individual recovery-based support, sharing your lived experience to foster hope and resilience in others.
• Assist consumers with navigating essential services such as NDIS applications, Centrelink payments, and DCJ housing.
• Engage in capacity-building activities that promote recovery, resilience, and improved physical and mental health.
• Develop and monitor individual support plans in collaboration with consumers, carers, and community organisations.
• Balance community outreach with administrative tasks, ensuring thorough documentation and follow-up.
• Receive guidance and mentorship from a Senior Mental Health Support Worker.
• Work across various settings, including homes, community spaces, Hospitals, to support consumers wherever their recovery journey takes them. 

About You

• Your personal experience with Mental Health recovery is central to this role, enabling you to connect with and support consumers authentically.
• Minimum Certificate IV in Peer Mental Health, Mental health or Community Services or working towards this qualification.
• Strong ability to engage with clients, share your story, and collaborate with team members.
• Experience or a strong desire to learn about recovery-oriented approaches.
• Ability to maintain clear professional boundaries while using your lived experience to support others.
• Comfortable working in a dynamic, fast-paced environment, seeing multiple consumers in one workday.

What we offer

• Salary packaging entitlements to increase your take-home pay
• Fitness Passport, U Rewards, and other great employee benefits
• Professional development and training opportunities
• A supportive and inclusive work environment
• Regular supervision and mentoring
• The opportunity to make a real impact in the lives of individuals on their recovery journey.

How to apply

If you are passionate about mental health, committed to making a difference, and ready to work in a dynamic and supportive environment, we would love to hear from you!

Apply, click the Apply Now button & attach your Resume.

Please contact Pallavi Bhatia from Uniting’s Talent Acquisition Team on [email protected] using the subject line: Mental Health Peer Support Worker - Taree enquiry via EthicalJobs should you have any questions. 

Employment with Uniting is subject to satisfactory background checks, which include National Police Checks, Working with Children Checks and Reference Checks.  

About Uniting 

When you’re part of Uniting NSW.ACT, you’re part of a diverse, purpose-led team of people who are really making a difference to the world around them.

We contribute to the work and mission of the Uniting Church in NSW and the ACT through social justice advocacy, community services and spiritual care. We provide care and support for people through all ages and stages of life, with a focus on people experiencing disadvantage and vulnerability. Our purpose is to inspire people, enliven communities and confront injustice.

Uniting leaders and employees work together to create a culture that is safe, inclusive and person-centred. We bring this to life every day through our values: compassionate, respectful, imaginative and bold.

Uniting acknowledges the continuing sovereignty and rich cultural diversity of Australia’s First Peoples. We pay our respects to all Elders – past, present, and emerging – and to all First Peoples on whose lands we live and work.

Uniting is a Child Safe Organisation committed to promoting the safety, wellbeing and inclusion of children and young people.

Diversity and Inclusion 

"At Uniting, we don't just care about Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) because it's the right thing to do - D&I is part of our identity and the future we see for ourselves.

We’re on a journey to intentionally and visibly weave diversity and inclusion into everything we do. We strive to be a place where everyone feels included, safe and confident to be themselves. A place where diversity is valued, and essential, to co-create a better world.

We have four lived experience-led employee D&I networks that provide insights and guidance to our organisation and drive active allyship: Uniting PRIDE network; Uniting Disability Inclusion Network; Uniting Cultural Diversity Network; and, the Uniting Ngumbadal Network."