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
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 & Role
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
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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: 2 April 2026
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 salary circular for VICTORIAN PUBLIC MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES ENTERPRISE AGREEMENT 2021-2024 for salary range. Sub-grading will be based on years of experience.It is strongly recommended that individuals in this role remain up to date with their COVID-19 vaccinations.
Join Bayside Health and help us to deliver healthy lives for everyone, through sustainable, innovative, compassionate care.