Senior Consumer Peer Worker MHW CATT
- Help lead our Mental Health Crisis and Wellbeing Service Transformation
- Be part of a values-led, supportive culture coming together to drive meaning and impact
- Skip the traffic, work close to home in the gateway to the gorgeous Mornington Peninsula
- Classification Range: Lived Experience Worker Level 3, Year 1- 4 (MP36-MP39)
- Location: Based at Frankston Hospital site, with outreach across the catchment and all sites
- Employment Type: Ongoing, Full-Time
Award: Victorian Public Mental Health Service Enterprise Agreement 2020-2024
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 Senior Consumer Peer Worker, you will provide local leadership for the lived experience peer workforce within the Mental Health and Wellbeing Crisis and Assessment Team (MHW CATT). 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; practice knowledge and leadership will be critical in:
- Providing intentional and meaningful peer support to people who may be experiencing a mental health crisis, leading trauma-informed de-escalation supports, addressing power imbalances by building mutuality and hope, fostering connections where healing and recovery begins
- Working alongside our multidisciplinary team to ensure trauma informed, dialogical, rights-based and relational approaches to treatment, care and supports to foster people's agency, promote collaboration and co-creating safety together
- Supporting and empowering individuals and their support networks, including families, carers and supporters, to work together, leverage their natural strengths and find meaningful ways forward from a crisis experience
- Draw on your systems knowledge to support individuals navigating mental health services and broader systems, including advocacy and support to address systemic barriers
- Leading and mentoring peer workers providing discipline specific supervision and supporting co-reflection, as well as supporting non-designated lived experience workforce in the team to foster understanding and genuine integration of the lived experience discipline and peer work
- Driving systems change by playing an active role in supporting us to shape, develop and implement the MHW CATT future MOC- anticipated to occur across the next 2-3 years.
There has never been a more exciting time to join our team!
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What Next
Apply Now!
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.
Join Peninsula Health and help us to deliver safe, personal, effective & connected care to every person, every time.
