Senior Peer Support Worker - Bendigo Adult Community Mental Health

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
• Join a passionate and supportive team and make a real difference in the lives of our community!

The Position 

Job Reference: 3439

Position Title: Senior Peer Support Worker 
Classification:MP36 - MP39
Salary per hour (exc. super): $38.51 - $42.09
Hours per fortnight: 64 
Employment Status: Ongoing Part Time

Closing date: 14/01/2026

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

The Senior Consumer Peer Support Worker is an established role within the Bendigo Adult Community Mental Health and Wellbeing Team, reporting directly to the Team Manager. The expertise, skills, and knowledge developed through your own lived experience and your professional practice as a Peer Support Worker make you a vital member of the Lived and Living Experience Workforce at Bendigo Health.

In this role, you will provide individual peer support to a small number of consumers. You will also offer day-to-day support, guidance, and role modelling to the peer workforce across the mental health and wellbeing service. While based in the BACMHT, you will work alongside multiple teams and provide direct support to peer workers located both in Bendigo and in regional sites including Swan Hill, Echuca, Maryborough, Castlemaine, and Kyneton.

You will work collaboratively within a multidisciplinary environment and contribute to strengthening peer work practice across the service. This includes partnering with key operational areas such as the Mental Health Professional Development Unit and other teams involved in workforce capability building, quality practice, and service improvement. You will engage with staff at all levels to support the ongoing development, integration, and uplift of the peer workforce.

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.

Your New Division

The Mental Health Service provides psychiatric care and treatment across a large catchment area in Victoria stretching from Swan Hill in the north of the state to Gisborne in the south. 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.

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 5440 6529 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: Why work in Mental Health and Wellbeing at Bendigo Health

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