Carer Lived Experience Peer Worker
Bendigo
Work in an environment that offers:
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Work alongside carers and families, used lived experience to foster hope, support recovery and deliver safe, compasionate, person-centered care.
- Contribute to a positive learning culture that values teaching, reflective practice and peer knowledge sharing to strengthen lived experience- infomed care.
- Be part of a team committed to continous improvement, collaboration, and meaningful outcomes for carers and families.
The Position
Job Reference: 4026
Position Title: Carer Lived Experience Peer Support Worker
Classification: AK43 - AK46
Salary per hour (exc. super): $40.86 - $44.65
Hours per fortnight: 48 Hours
Employment Status: Ongoing Part Time
Other requirements: 2026 Flu Vaccination
Closing date: 28/06/2026
Please note that this position may be filled before the closing date, so early applications are encouraged.
The Hospital Outreach Post-Suicidal Engagement (HOPE) Carer Lived Experience peer support worker draws on their own life-changing experiences of supporting and caring for someone with suicidal distress to support and advocate for other carers, families, and supporters.
The primary focus of this role is to provide peer support to carers, family members and significant supporters. This role does not provide peer support to the person experiencing suicidality directly. Instead, it centres the needs, experiences and wellbeing of carers, while collaborating with the multidisciplinary team to ensure carer perspectives are respected and included in care processes where appropriate.
The Carer Peer Support Worker recognises that carers have their own recovery journey. The role provides space for carers to process impact, navigate services, strengthen boundaries, build protective factors and sustain their own wellbeing. Carers are supported as, people in their own right, not solely in their role supporting another.
Working with Bendigo Health
Bendigo Health are a leader in regional health care, combining outstanding services with a strong education, training and personal development culture.
Created by our community in the 1850s, we have a long, proud history of delivering excellent care to our community.
Our organisation is diverse, welcoming and committed to delivering our vision to be a trusted regional healthcare service recognised for delivering exceptional care, being a great place to work, and being deeply connected to our community.
Bendigo Health has around 5000 staff and a catchment area covering a quarter of the size of Victoria. The three main campuses of Bendigo Health are in Bendigo, with many services extended to regional settings including areas such as Mildura, Echuca, Swan Hill, Kyneton and Castlemaine.
We offer a fantastic range of benefits for our staff, including:
- Staff health and wellbeing programs
- Career development and education opportunities
- Generous salary packaging opportunities, to increase your take-home pay each fortnight
- Flexible Working Arrangements
- Use of staff gym and pool and access to other fitness facilities through fitness passport program
If successful for a position at Bendigo Health you must provide evidence of your full immunisation record as part of the on boarding process.
Your New Division
The Clinical Operations Division encompasses acute, cancer and mental health services. We provide a wide range of general medical, surgical and specialty services including but not limited to; Oncology, Cardiology, Renal, Emergency, Women’s and Children’s, Critical Care, Specialist Clinics, Cancer Clinics and Mental Health Services.
Within a state-of-the-art hospital, our Ambulatory and Critical Care, Medical Services, Surgical Services and Women’s and Children’s (including an Early Parenting Centre) areas use the latest technologies to provide excellent care. Our world class Cancer Centre uses a multi-disciplinary, integrated approach to treat specific cancers. The Cancer Centre offers medical oncology, radiation oncology, specialist nurses, clinical trials and cancer research, palliative care, and a Cancer Wellness Program.
The Mental Health Service provides psychiatric care and treatment across a large catchment covering the Loddon Mallee region. Family sensitive practice is central to our models of mental health care and best practice ensures the identification, inclusion and support of families, carers and children.
Each year our onsite Specialist Clinics provide over 100,000 service events, we also see more than 60,000 people in our Emergency Department and welcome around 1700 babies into the world. The Clinical Operations Division assists with the admission of more than 50,000 patients into the hospital each year.
Bendigo Region
Bendigo is one of Victoria’s largest regional cities making it a great city to live and work in. Bendigo provides services for the region’s population of over 320,000 and so the city offers excellent schools, shopping and cultural precincts, sporting facilities and various tertiary facilities. We can offer generous flexible working arrangements - giving you more time to enjoy the fantastic restaurants, beautiful parks, walking trails and wineries within our region.
Interested?
We’d love to hear from you! Please ensure that you attach a cover letter and an up-to-date copy of your resume.
Need more information? Please contact Sonia Forouzanfar on 0457083480 for a confidential discussion.
Diversity and Inclusion
Bendigo Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We embrace diversity and social inclusion and encourage people from a diverse cultural background, people with disabilities and or Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander people to apply.
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