Work Type: Part-time
Salary: Salary not specified
Grade: Grade not specified
Occupation: Health and allied health
Location: Melbourne - CBD and Inner Metro suburbs
Reference: 3667
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Austin Health is the major provider of tertiary health services, health professional education and research across three campuses in the north-east of Melbourne and statewide. We have a highly engaged, diverse and collaborative workforce that is unified by our goal to help people live healthy and fulfilled lives.
About the Adolescent Intensive Management (AIM) Team
The AIM Team is part of Austin Health’s Infant, Child, and Youth Mental Health Service (ICYMHS). It services young people from 6 local government areas of metropolitan Melbourne. It is one of several outpatient/outreach teams within the service. It provides intensive, outreach, mental health services including screening/assessment, treatment and consultation concerning adolescents experiencing complex social, emotional, and behavioural difficulties and mental health problems.
The systemic framework of the service means that team members work to empower young people and their support networks to think about their difficulties in a creative way and identify flexible solutions to mental health problems. The AIM team also work collaboratively with their colleagues from the Youth Brief Intervention Service, who provide systemic and family-oriented brief interventions to young people and their families.
In line with the Royal Commission into Mental Health recommendations, Austin Health ICYMHS services are currently expanding to incorporate 18-25 years in all its programs across the Banyule and Nillumbik local government areas. The service currently operates within business hours, with a view to expand operating hours in the future to improve accessibility in line with Royal Commission recommendations.
About the role
As the Consumer Peer Worker, you will be an integral member of the AIM multidisciplinary team, providing intensive outreach mental health service to high-risk young people aged 12-18 years, their families and wider service systems within the Austin ICYMHS catchment (i.e., Northern and Northeastern Metropolitan). Drawing on your unique lived experience and perspective as a consumer who has had support from a public hospital-based youth mental health team, you will contribute to the provision of recovery-oriented, trauma-informed, evidence-based peer support interventions to families and carers of young people experiencing mental health challenges or psychological distress.
As a Consumer Peer Worker, it is expected that you will work collaboratively with AIM clinicians and broader ICYMHS staff and teams to support young people who find it difficult to engage in office-based services and are at risk of harm.
A regular day will see you:
About you
You will be someone who brings their unique skills and first-hand experience of using mental health services to this role. You will have a sound understanding of mental health peer support principles and the ability to use peer support to provide hope and recovery. You will also openly accept and reflect on the impact of the demands of the role on yourself and seek out support and advice to assist you in the role.
To be successful in this role you’ll bring with you:
Our benefits
Working at Austin Health means enjoying a strong sense of purpose, engaging in meaningful work every day. Our people also receive a variety of rewarding benefits, including:
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We are committed to cultural safety and health equity for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander People. We celebrate, value, and include people of all backgrounds, genders, identities, cultures, bodies, and abilities. We welcome and support applications from talented people identifying as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander, people with disability, neurodiverse people, LGBTQIA+ and people of all ages and cultures.
If you feel this role is right for you, we encourage your early application. Even if you don’t meet every single requirement, we encourage you to apply. What matters most is your passion, your drive and your willingness to learn and contribute. Applications will be reviewed as they are received, and interviews may take place prior to the closing date. This means we reserve the right to close a job ad prior to the advertised closing date.
All appointments are made subject to a satisfactory National Police Check and if required, a Working With Children Check. If you require any reasonable adjustments to the recruitment process, you are welcome to reach out to the hiring manager: Rowan Chipchase, Program Manager Youth Outreach at [email protected]
Interested in finding out more about this opportunity? Read the position description for further details.
Application closing date: Sunday 17 August 2025