Senior Consumer Peer Worker - Partnering with Consumers & Carers
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- Education and Training Officer
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- Nepean Blue Mountains Local Health District
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- REQ613537 Requisition #
Employment Type: Permanent Full Time
Location: Nepean Mental Health Centre
Hours Per Week: 38
Requisition ID: REQ613537
Application Close: 13/11/2025
Position Classification & Remuneration: Dependent on Qualifications
Senior Health Education Officer Non-Graduate: $93,774.00 - $97,316.00 per annum
Senior Health Education Officer Graduate: $114,173.00 - $123,335.00 per annum
With CORE Values of Collaboration, Openness, Respect and Empowerment
working with us will ensure your professional life is provided every opportunity to succeed
and develop in your chosen career role.
About Us
Nepean Blue Mountains Local Health District (NBMLHD) is a wonderful place to expand your career and grow your skills and knowledge. As a recognised leader in the healthcare industry, we provide a range of public health services to the Nepean, Blue Mountains, and Lithgow Region.
The Nepean Mental Health Centre provides inpatient care for people experiencing acute mental health issues through the short-stay Psychiatric Emergency Care Centre (PECC), the Acute Mental Health Unit, Mental Health High Dependency Unit, and Older Persons Mental Health Unit. We support our Patients by linking them to case managers for ongoing treatment and support within an environment appropriate to the person's needs.
Are you passionate about driving meaningful change in mental health services through lived experience and peer lead approaches? We’re looking for a dedicated Senior Consumer Peer Worker (SCPW) to join our Peer Workforce, Consumer and Carer (PWCAC) team and champion consumer voice, empowerment, and recovery-focused care.
As a senior member of the team, the SCPW draws on their own lived experience of mental health challenges and recovery to provide peer support and lead initiatives that promote consumer participation, representation, and co-design across the Mental Health Service. This role plays a pivotal part in embedding peer-informed practices, mentoring and supporting the consumer peer workforce, and ensuring that consumer perspectives are central to service development, governance, and quality improvement.
The SCPW works in close collaboration with the PWCAC team, the Professional Lead Peer Worker, and multidisciplinary teams, and holds a strategic non-voting position within the Consumer and Carer Council (CCC). Grounded in the NSW Peer Worker Capability Framework, this role upholds the values of recovery, hope, empowerment, human rights, and mutual respect.
If you’re ready to lead with lived experience and help shape a more inclusive, responsive mental health system, we’d love to hear from you. Apply Now!
Benefits available to eligible NBMLHD employees
- Accrued Day Off (ADO)
- Opportunity for extra tax savings through Salary Packaging
- Novated Leasing
- Great education opportunities through Education Training Service which offers over 110 courses each year
- Access to our Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for staff and family members
- Fitness Passport
NBMLHD is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment which reflects the community we serve. We encourage candidates from all backgrounds, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, LGBTIQA+, Cultural and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) people, neurodiverse individuals, and people with disabilities to apply.
NBMLHD is committed to implementing the child safe standards. For more information, please click here Child Safe Standards.
For assistance with applying through the NSW Health Career Portal please click here.
What you will bring to the role:
- Lived experience of mental health challenges and recovery, and ability to purposefully and ethically use this experience to inform peer support, mentoring, and leadership within a mental health setting
- Certificate IV in Mental Health Peer Work (carer) or readiness to work towards completing; or qualifications in Health or other relevant qualification, e.g. degree, diploma or certificate
- Demonstrated experience mentoring and supervising peer workers or consumer representatives, and promoting lived experience leadership within teams or governance structures
- Strong understanding of recovery-oriented practice, co-design principles, and levels of consumer participation, with the ability to lead and support meaningful engagement in service planning, quality improvement, and evaluation
- Well-developed interpersonal, communication, and advocacy skills, including the ability to build collaborative relationships with staff, consumers, carers, and external stakeholders across diverse backgrounds.
- Demonstrated ability to work autonomously and maintain professional boundaries, ethical conduct, and confidentiality in accordance with health service policies and the NSW Peer Worker Capability Framework
- Proficiency in using computer systems and documentation tools, including Microsoft Office, reporting systems, and digital platforms to support communication and service development
- Current NSW driver’s license and willingness to travel across the district as required.
Employment of a temporary visa holder may only occur if no suitable permanent resident or citizen of Australia has been identified and must not exceed the duration or conditions associated with the current visa.
Need more information?
1) Click here for the Position Description
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For role related queries or questions contact Tomy Philip on Tomy.Philip@health.nsw.gov.au
