Consumer Peer Support Worker (Lived Experience)

Work in an environment that offers:

• An opportunity to work with a leading regional health service
• An ability to live and work in a vibrant regional setting
• A strong attitude to teaching and learning

The Position:

Job Reference: 4214

Position Title: Consumer Peer Support Worker 
Classification: AK43 - AK46
Salary per fortnight (exc. super): $3,198.80 - $3,495.20
Hours per fortnight: 80 Hours (Includes an ADO every four weeks)
Employment Status: Ongoing Full Time

Other requirements: 2026 Flu Vaccination  

Closing date: 13/07/2026

The Position

As a Peer Support Worker within the Lived Experience discipline, you will use your lived experience to build trusting relationships with consumers based on empathy, understanding and mutual respect. You will provide practical and emotional support, encourage hope, and support consumers to identify strengths, pursue personal goals and make choices about their wellbeing.

Working as part of a multidisciplinary team, you will assist consumers to navigate mental health and wellbeing services, access community supports and strengthen social connections. You will contribute a lived experience perspective to care, helping to ensure that services remain responsive to the needs and experiences of consumers.

You will maintain professional boundaries, complete accurate documentation, participate in supervision and reflective practice, and work collaboratively with colleagues across the service. Through your work, you will support inclusion, self-determination and positive wellbeing outcomes for consumers.

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.

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 Samantha Johnson - Manager  or Brendan Watson on 03 5481 0700 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.

Position Description: HERE 

Careers Video Reference: Welcome to Bendigo Health

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