Consumer Peer Support Worker - Bendigo Adult Community Mental Health

Work in an environment that offers: 

• Support for career progression and development
• An opportunity to work with a leading regional health service
• A strong attitude to teaching and learning

The Position

Job Reference: 3438

Position Title: Peer Support Worker - Lived Experience
Classification: MP32 - MP35
Salary per hour (exc. super): $34.86 - $36.98
Hours per fortnight: 64 
Employment Status: Ongoing Part Time

Closing date: 14/01/2026

We have an amazing opportunity to join our passionate team and make a real and positive difference to the lives in our community!

As a Peer Support Worker within the Lived Experience discipline, you will use your own experiences of mental illness to build supportive, two-way relationships with consumers based on shared understanding and empathy. You’ll listen without judgment, share your story where appropriate, and model hope and recovery to empower consumers to lead their own journeys and advocate for themselves.

Working alongside the multidisciplinary team, you’ll support consumers across community, helping them navigate the mental health system and connect with community resources. You’ll also contribute to a workplace culture that values the consumer perspective, maintain accurate and confidential documentation, and engage in reflective practices with fellow lived experience staff. Through this work, you’ll promote empowerment, collaboration, and recovery within the mental health and wellbeing service.

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 of Excellent Care. Every Person, Every Time.

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 Annette Hope, Manager on 5446 6582 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

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