Senior Consumer Peer Worker – Mornington Community Case Management

• Senior Peer Worker - Lived experience practice within a community mental health setting
• Employment Type: Ongoing, Full-Time (or Part-Time by negotiation)
• Location: Mornington Peninsula – Community Mental Health (Case Management)
• Classification: Consumer Peer Worker – Senior, Year 3 (as per Victorian Public Mental Health Services Enterprise Agreement 2025 -2028)

About Bayside Health

Bayside Health is a public health service delivering high-quality care across every stage of life for close to 1.2 million people living in metropolitan Melbourne, the Mornington Peninsula, Koo Wee Rup, Bass Coast and Southern Gippsland.

We have more than 15 main sites, including hospitals, centres and clinics that provide comprehensive care from welcoming newborns to supporting older people and a full range of services in between.

More than 22,000 dedicated staff are focussed on providing exceptional, equitable, and locally connected care through shared expertise, compassion, and a commitment to continuous growth. Education and training are central to staff development as we encourage all employees to strive and thrive.

Bayside Health was formed following the merger of Alfred Health, Bass Coast Health, Gippsland Southern Health Service, Kooweerup Regional Health Service and Peninsula Health on 1 January 2026.

The Team and Role

The Mornington Community Mental Health Case Management Team provides community-based, recovery-oriented mental health support to people living across the Mornington Peninsula. The team works collaboratively to support people’s recovery, strengths and self-determined goals within their local communities.

As the Senior Consumer Peer Worker, you will provide lived experience leadership and discipline guidance within a community case management setting. You will work alongside clinicians and peer workers to strengthen recovery-oriented, trauma-informed and rights-based approaches to care, while supporting the sustainability and integrity of peer practice.

This role is intentionally designed to prioritise peer practice leadership, workforce support and role-modelling of sustainable lived experience practice. Direct consumer support is a purposeful and negotiated component of the role, enabling authentic role-modelling while maintaining a primary focus on leadership responsibilities.

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Key Responsibilities

Provide senior peer leadership through Consumer Perspective Supervision (CPS), facilitation of co‑reflection, and discipline‑specific support to peer workers.

Work collaboratively within multidisciplinary teams, contributing lived experience insights to care planning, and decision-making.

Provide selective, mutually agreed one-to-one peer support to consumers grounded in hope, recovery and self-determination.

Advocate for recovery-oriented, rights-based and least-restrictive approaches to service delivery.

Contribute to service improvement, co-design and the ongoing development of lived experience practice within community mental health services.

Support peer workforce wellbeing, reflective practice and psychologically safe ways of working.

Skills and Experience Required

Essential

Personal lived experience of mental health challenges and recovery.

Demonstrated experience working as a consumer peer worker in a mental health setting.

Experience providing mentoring, supervision or leadership support to peer workers.

Strong understanding of recovery-oriented, trauma-informed and rights-based practice.

Ability to work collaboratively and with influence within multidisciplinary community mental health teams.

Desirable

Certificate IV in Mental Health Peer Work or equivalent qualification.

Training in Lived Experience Practice Supervision and/or Intentional Peer Support.

Experience contributing to service development, evaluation or co-design initiatives.

Benefits

Work close to home on the Mornington Peninsula.

Access to salary packaging, novated leasing and employee wellbeing programs.

Professional development and lived experience leadership support.

Join a values-driven organisation committed to lived experience leadership.

Next Steps

If you experience any issues signing in or registering, please feel welcome to contact mkennedy@phcn.vic.gov.au.

The role ceases advertising on 7 April 2026: Please note that applications will be considered upon receipt and that this job posting may close early if a sufficient number of applications are received, so we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.  

Thank you for your interest in this role. Bayside Health (Peninsula Health Care Group) is regularly advertising positions across the health service so please take the time to review other relevant opportunities by going to https://www.peninsulahealth.org.au/careers/

  
Additional Information

Bayside Health is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We encourage applications from individuals from all cultural backgrounds including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. We also provide a safe and supportive workplace for people with all abilities.  

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/   

*Please refer to the Mental Health Services Enterprise Agreement 2025 -2028 salary circular for salary range. Sub-grading will be based on years of experience.  For further information on salary range classifications and grading please refer to the following page: https://www.peninsulahealth.org.au/careers/working-with-us/salary-rates/