Advanced Peer Worker (Lived Experienced)

About the role

Townsville Hospital and Health Service is seeking an Advanced Peer Worker (Lived Experience) for its Mental Health Services. The role is permanent part-time, 60.8 hours per fortnight, and is open to people who have a personal lived experience of mental illness and/or substance use challenges.

Key responsibilities

• Work under general direction to coach and mentor peer workers, facilitating their education and development.
• Provide education opportunities for Mental Health Service Group staff so they understand the recovery framework and the lived experience perspective.
• Use your lived experience to help develop and deliver consumer and carer support groups, psychoeducation programs and other recovery-oriented information sessions for consumers, carers and families.

Required profile

• Genuine lived experience of mental illness and/or substance use challenges (a genuine occupational requirement).
• Willingness to share that experience to support others and act as a role model for consumers and the wider community.
• Current C class driver's licence.
• Experience in a public mental health service or the NGO sector is highly desirable.
• A Certificate IV in Mental Health Peer Work, or the ability to complete it, is highly desirable.
• This is a VPD risk role; a working with children check is required before appointment.

What we offer

• Salary of $48.69 to $53.54 per hour (AO4 classification).
• 4 weeks of annual leave per year (pro rata) with 17.5% loading.
• Locality allowance and 12.75% employer superannuation contribution.
• Flexible work options and salary sacrificing options may be available.

Applications close on 9 November 2026 and must be submitted online through the Queensland Health Springboard portal; unsolicited agency resumes are not accepted.