Family Carer Peer Worker - Mental Health Wellbeing Crisis Assessment Treatment Team (MHW CATT)
- Help us to embed family-inclusive approaches as part of our Mental Health Crisis and Wellbeing Service Transformation Journey
- Be part of a values-led, supportive team culture
- Skip the traffic, work close to home in the gateway to the gorgeous Mornington Peninsula
Classification Range: Lived Experience Level 2 Year 1-4 (MP32 –MP35)
Location: Based at Frankston Hospital site, with outreach across the catchment and all sites
Employment Type: Ongoing, Part Time (3 days per week)
On 1 January 2026 five health services (Kooweerup Regional Health Service, Peninsula Health, Alfred Health, Bass Coast Health and Gippsland Southern Health Service) will come together to create Bayside Health. A newly merged health service with more than 22,000 employees caring for a community of over 1.2 million Victorians.
The new health service will provide people with the best possible care with services that support them throughout their lives. The merger will also strengthen our workforce, providing new training, education, and career opportunities. Subject to final approval on 1 January 2026, all employees from the five health services will transfer to Bayside Health.
Who We Are and What We Stand For
Peninsula Health is the major metropolitan health service caring for a community of 300,000 people. Our Vision is to provide exceptional health and community care. To realise this vision, we need people who strive for a sense of achievement, take an interest in their individual growth, enjoy innovation and looking for ways to improve and have a passion for communicating and connecting with others. In representing Peninsula Health, we expect all employees and volunteers to reflect our values: Be the Best, Be a Role Model, Be Open and Honest, Be Compassionate and Respectful and Be Collaborative. We are One Peninsula Health.
What You Will Be Doing
As a Family Carer Peer Worker, you will bring your lived experience of supporting a family member, kin, friend or loved one through mental health concerns or crisis to provide peer support, advocacy, and system navigation for families, carers, and supporters. As an integral member of the Mental Health and Wellbeing Crisis Assessment Treatment Team (MHW CATT), you will work as part of a collaborative multidisciplinary team that delivers a range of mental health crisis support. The MHW CATT provides community based comprehensive mental health crisis assessment, treatment care and support to people who may be experiencing significant psychological and suicidal distress during a mental health crisis which requires more intensive, time-limited support from a tier 5 Area Mental Health and Wellbeing Service.
Your lived experience and expertise will be critical in both delivering peer support families, carers and supporters during a period where they are supporting a loved one through a mental health crisis, as well as working alongside staff from multidisciplinary backgrounds to embed family inclusive approaches right across the service. You will intentionally and purposefully draw on your lived experience to foster hope, provide system navigation support, advocacy to empower families to uphold their rights, as well as promote whole-of-family wellbeing support.
Peer support is a critical part of our MHW CATT Model of Care, so you will bring the specialist lens of Family Carer lived expertise to ensure that families expertise is recognised and actively involved in treatment, care and support, as well as ensuring families receive meaningful supports within their own right. You will also have opportunities to draw on your expertise to support our team as we embed family inclusive practice as one as a priority improvement initiative, as part of our stage implementation transforming the way we deliver mental health treatment, care and supports across the next few years towards our future model of care. There has never been a more exciting time to join our team!
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What Next
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If you experience any issues signing in, registering or role specific information, please feel welcome to contact the Maeve Kennedy via email at mkennedy@phcn.vic.gov.au.
The role ceases advertising on: 5 December 2025
Additional Requirements
Peninsula Health is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity and promotes a workplace that welcomes and includes the unique contributions of all people. We encourage applications from individuals who identify as being Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, are culturally diverse, LGBTQIA+ or who have a disability to apply. We are also strongly committed to the safety and wellbeing of children and young people. We encourage you to talk to us about any adjustments or additional support you may require during the recruitment process.
To find out more about our recruitment processes, compliance obligations and to prepare your application to join our team please visit: https://www.peninsulahealth.org.au/careers/working-preparing-employment/ It is strongly recommended that this role is up to date with Covid-19 vaccination.
Please refer to salary circular for VICTORIAN PUBLIC MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES ENTERPRISE AGREEMENT 2021-2024 for salary range. Sub-grading will be based on years of experience.
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