Family/Carer Peer Worker- Youth Mental Health

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Join our team as a Level 2 Family/Carer Peer Worker on a ongoing full-time basis to work in our Infant, Child, Family and Youth Mental Health Service based in the Youth Consultation and Treatment Team and Recovery and Prevention of Psychosis Team at Dandenong. 

About our Lived & Living Experience Workforce at Monash Health
Monash Health is one of the largest Lived and Living Experience Workforce employers in Victoria, encompassing both Consultants and Peer Workers. Our Peer Workforce, which includes both Consumer and Family/Carer Peer Workers, is integral to several of our inpatient units, community teams, emergency departments, and drug and alcohol services. We are dedicated to fostering a safe and supportive workplace, reinforced by strong professional leadership, reflective supervision, and opportunities for connection through co-reflection, employee forums, and ongoing professional development.

About the Youth Consultation and Treatment Team (YCTT) and Recovery and Prevention of Psychosis Team (RAPPT)
The YCTT and RAPPT services offer mental health assessment and treatment to young people, their families and the subsequent support services involved in their care. The teams are based in a community out-patient clinic in Dandenong.  

About the Role

The Family/Carer Peer Worker will provide support to carers in the YCTT and RAPPT. As an integral and highly valued member of the YCTT and RAPPT multidisciplinary team, Family/Carer Peer Workers draw on their own lived experience of supporting a person’s mental ill health and recovery and use it with intent and purpose to support others.

Peer Workers act as recovery champions, and practice within the Intentional Peer Support (IPS) values of mutual respect, shared experiences and collaboration. They seek to create authentic connections that foster personal growth and healing.  As a non-clinical workforce Peer Workers complement the work of clinical staff without undertaking clinical duties.

About You 
As a designated family carer lived experience role, you will have a declared personal experience of supporting someone living with mental illness, and experience of the mental health system.

You possess a deep understanding of mental health challenges through your own lived experience as a family carer and are passionate about supporting others. You have a genuine commitment to enhancing the lives of individuals with mental health difficulties and their carers. With a strong focus on inclusion, diversity, and person-centred care, you bring excellent communication and interpersonal skills to your work. Your enthusiasm, compassion, and ability to collaborate effectively within a multidisciplinary team set you apart. You are driven to pursue a meaningful and purposeful career, with a desire to grow as a lived experience health professional.

What You Need

As an entry-level peer work role you will demonstrate the following key skills, experience and knowledge (see attached Position Description for a complete list of requirements):

• Declared personal experience of supporting someone living with mental illness, including experience of supporting someone as a mental health service user.
• Ability to use your own lived experience to inspire hope in belief and recovery.
• Knowledge of peer work principles and the ability to support others from a mutual perspective.
• Completion of Intentional Peer Support (IPS) training, or willingness to complete.

What the Lived & Living Experience Workforce at Monash Health offers:

• Comprehensive orientation and induction program.
• Up to 2 hours reflective supervision per month, plus group co-reflection spaces.
• Support and mentoring from Peer Work Leads.
• Higher Education Recognition Allowance.
• Funded Lived & Living Experience professional development and training opportunities.
• Regular Lived & Living Experience Workforce forums.
  
  

Monash Health employees enjoy a range of benefits including:  

• Salary packaging options that increase your take-home pay.
• Comprehensive Health and Wellbeing program.
• Free flu vaccinations.
• Private health insurance at discounted rates.
• Health imaging services.

+ more

For a confidential discussion and to explore the opportunity further, please call Elle McAndrew, YCTT Manager (0408640132) or Ann Gallagher, Community Family/Carer Peer Work Lead on 0429 453 980.

Position Description can be found here

We recognise the value of equal employment opportunity. We are committed to patient safety, promoting fairness, equity and diversity in the workplace and to Child Safe Standards. At Monash Health we are relentless in our pursuit of excellence and work to our six guiding principles and our five Care values. To learn more about our organisation visit monashhealth.org.

Respectfully, applications from recruitment agencies will not be accepted.

How to Apply

Applications are accepted via the Monash Health online eHub system. For information including how to apply and probity check requirements, please click here for the ‘Application Guide’.

Applications will be screened upon receipt and selection activity may commence prior to the closing date.

Applications Close:  9th March 2026