At a Glance
- Tasks: Support individuals in their recovery journey through peer support and community connections.
- Company: Wellways, a values-driven not-for-profit focused on mental health and inclusivity.
- Benefits: Salary packaging, leave loading, and access to an Employee Assistance Program.
- Other info: Join a diverse team committed to empowerment and inclusivity.
- Why this job: Make a real difference in your community while sharing your lived experience.
- Qualifications: Personal lived experience with substance use and a willingness to support others.
The predicted salary is between 49500 - 60500 $ per year.
Wellways is committed to reconciliation, lived experience and inclusivity. We strongly encourage and warmly welcome people from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, people with a lived experience of mental health and disability and people who identify as LGBTIQA+ to apply.
Utilise your real-life experience to engage, encourage and support people in our community. This is a part-time (8 days/fortnight), parental leave cover opportunity to join a multidisciplinary team until July 2027.
About the Opportunity:
Wellways, in partnership with APMHA Healthcare and GV Health, is working together across Greater Shepparton, Strathbogie, and Moira to strengthen mental health and wellbeing support across the region. Together, we're aiming to offer services that meet the unique needs of individuals in our community, whenever and wherever they are needed. Lived experience, inclusivity, and genuine collaboration are at the heart of everything we do.
As an AOD Wellbeing Navigator Peer, you’ll draw on your own lived experience of substance use or addiction, recovery, service use and personal growth to build mutual and respectful relationships with participants. You’ll provide intentional AOD peer support and help people connect with the services, supports and community connections that matter to them.
Key elements of your new role will include:
- Provide intentional, strengths-based peer support, including AOD peer support
- Offer one-on-one support and care planning
- Facilitate group peer sessions to build connection and confidence
- Support people to recognise and build on their own strengths, knowledge and capacity
- Support engagement and self-advocacy with clinical services
- Build strong relationships with local AOD and other community support services
About You:
You have personal lived experience with alcohol or substance use, and you’ve navigated your own recovery journey and/or engagement with AOD services. Through this experience, along with formal study or training, you’ve gained valuable insight that allows you to support others with empathy and understanding.
To be successful in this role, you will need:
- Personal lived experience of substance use or addiction and recovery and/or engagement with AOD services
- Certificate IV in Mental Health, AOD, Mental Health Peer Work or Community Services (completed or in progress), or a willingness to undertake it, or equivalent lived experience workforce knowledge, skills and practical experience
- 100 points of identification
- Evidence of right to work in Australia
- Satisfactory National Police Check, Working with Children Check and NDIS Worker Screening Check, or willingness to undertake
- NDIS Workers Orientation module certificate – free online course
What we will offer you:
- A purpose driven culture where people can thrive, everyone is respected, and differences are valued
- An equitable, diverse, and socially inclusive work environment
- Salary packaging up to $15,899
- Meal and Entertainment allowance via salary packaging up to $2,650 per annum
- Receive 17.5% leave loading every time you take annual leave
- Paid parental leave after 12 months of ongoing employment
- Access for you and your family to our Employee Assistance Program
Wellways is committed to the safeguarding of children and vulnerable people. Successful applicants must undergo a comprehensive screening process prior to their commencement.
AOD Wellbeing Navigator Peer in Geelong employer: Wellways Australia Limited
Wellways is an exceptional employer dedicated to fostering a supportive and inclusive work environment, particularly for those in the mental health and community services sector. With a strong commitment to employee wellbeing, professional growth opportunities, and a culture that values lived experience, Wellways empowers its staff to make a meaningful impact across diverse communities in Northern Victoria. The organisation offers attractive benefits such as salary packaging, annual leave loading, and access to ongoing leadership development, making it a rewarding place to build a career.
Contact Details:
Wellways Australia Limited Recruitment Team
