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Share Hope, Build Futures - Mental Health Peer Specialist Position

This OPS3 Peer Specialist role at GP Plus Marion offers a unique opportunity to use your lived experience of mental health recovery to make a meaningful contribution within Community Mental Health Services. You will support consumers on their recovery journey through authentic peer relationships, promoting hope and social inclusion using trauma-informed, strengths-based approaches. Join SA Health's dedicated team where your personal recovery story becomes a powerful tool for empowering others to achieve their wellness goals and strengthen community participation.

About the role: 

Reporting to the Team Manager, Peer Specialists draw on their own life-changing mental health challenges, service use and journey of recovery and healing, to support others through a supportive non-clinical relationship based on equity, credibility, mutuality, hope, and empowerment. 

Duties for the role will include:

• Draw from personal lived experience of mental health challenges and recovery journey to role model recovery and act as a recovery champion,
• Form authentic peer relationships with consumers by appropriately and purposefully sharing personal lived experience and understanding of the impact of mental health challenges, service use and recovery,
• Work from a Peer Work (PW) values and principles based practice to support people in their own homes and the community to progress towards their goals and aspirations,
• Provide guidance and support to consumers as they self-define and self-determine their mental health experience, narratives and identities,
• Work within MDT, advocating for individual and collective consumer needs & rights in the development of individual care plans and service delivery,
• Work to identify and reduce stigma & discrimination, from individual and collective consumer levels through to service and systemic levels,
• Maintain up to date knowledge of the Mental Health Act and consumer rights

About you:

• Skills in building connected and authentic trusting relationships with consumers and in modelling relatable recovery pathways,
• Strong advocacy and partnership building skills to apply in a clinical mental health environment working within multidisciplinary teams,
• Understanding and/or experience of the challenges associated with experiencing psychosis and the implications for personal recovery,
• Lived experience of accessing support and treatment through mental health services,
• Experience in advocating for oneself and others experiencing symptoms related to or defined as psychosis,
• Experience in broader lived experience advocacy and representation,
• Experience in facilitating consumer peer support/psychoeducation programs and staff awareness/education/development programs

Please see the attached Role Description for additional information.

Want To Know More? Contact: Claire Gallagher, Team Manager, 08 7425 8583, Claire.Gallagher@sa.gov.au

Application Closing Date: 11.55 pm Sunday May 31 2026

Attachments:

• OPS3 Peer Specialist- Role Description
• Australian applicant guidelines
• International applicant guidelines

Applicant Information:

• We also offer salary sacrifice benefits which provide the opportunity to save money by paying for some of your everyday expenses from your salary before it is taxed. Click here to find out more about salary packaging.
• The South Australian public sector promotes diversity and flexible ways of working including part-time. Applicants are encouraged to discuss the flexible working arrangements for this role.
• Appointment will be subject to a satisfactory Criminal History Check and Immunisation compliance as indicated on the Role description.
• SA Health Services are required to implement the Addressing vaccine preventable disease: Occupational assessment, screening and vaccination policy in the workplace.
• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants are encouraged to apply.  Job ref: 939103