SCHADS Level 4: Full Time and Part Time opportunities
Contract Term up until 30th June 2026
Numerous positions available
Skylight Mental Health is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive workforce including people from all genders, ages, sexualities, cultures, backgrounds. We strongly encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, culturally and linguistically diverse people and people with mental health lived experience of recovery.
We are recruiting Lived Experience Peer Workers to work within multiple short-term programs at our Elizabeth office. The Lived Experience Peer Workers will work closely with participants to promote recovery, inspire hope and facilitate a process wherein participants can work toward their goals and wellbeing. The Lived Experience Peer Workers will work with participants via telephone, web chat and in person, providing short term services in the office and community. The Lived Experience Peer Workers will network with other providers, make new connections and maintain existing relationships with other organisations.
Under the general direction of a Team leader, the Lived Experience Peer Workers will assist in the development, delivery and evaluation of high-quality Skylight programs. The Lived Experienced Peer Workers will contribute to a collaborative and flexible team culture, to build immediate, respectful and compassionate relationships with program participants using strengths based, trauma informed approaches. This will include providing practical support and work to establish connections with and for the participant to connect them to longer term supports.
Lived Experience Peer Workers are required to draw from their own learned personal recovery experience from mental distress and are at a point in recovery where these experiences can be applied in a work setting to benefit others. Lived Experienced Peer Workers will have the experience, knowledge and resources available to them for self-care and reflective practice for continual growth. Lived Experienced Peer Workers inspire hope, offer non-judgmental supports, walk alongside people and build capacity.
Requirements for Success
• A tertiary qualification relevant to the health or mental health sector, minimum Certificate IV in Mental Health Peer Work and/or a minimum of 2 years’ experience in mental health related peer work
• Sound knowledge and awareness of mental health challenges
• Lived experience of mental health recovery and excellent skills in the safe and appropriate use of these in the support of Skylight customers and participants
• Capacity to work both autonomously and within teams
• High level of understanding of person centred, trauma informed and strengths-based practice
• Proficient knowledge of Microsoft programs and relevant software
• DHS Working With Children Check and NDIS Worker Check
• Current SA Drivers Licence and willingness to use own registered, insured vehicle
• Current knowledge of northern-based services and existing relationships with providers desirable
The role will be predominantly based at Skylight Elizabeth, servicing multiple areas of the Northern Adelaide metropolitan region.
For queries about the role, please contact Chantal Yeend via email at chantal@skylight.org.au
Skylight will fill the roles as soon as possible, and will keep the recruitment open until filled.
If you are interested in applying please attach:
• Resume and
• cover letter outlining your working experience where you feel you would be suitable for this role
• Answers to the following questions (limit 75 words per question)
1. Our programs are short and time limited. Please describe your understanding of capacity building and how would you engage with someone to ensure you can meet goals within timeframes.
2. Describe your ability and experience to build connections with other support providers and community organisations.
3. Describe your knowledge of the role of lived experience in mental health, and how have you applied this in your work or practice
4. Please share how you reflect on and use your own lived experience in alignment with organisational values.
The Royal Children's Hospital (RCH) has been providing outstanding care for Victoria's children and their families for over 147 years.
We are the major specialist paediatric hospital in Victoria and our care extends to children from Tasmania, southern New South Wales and other states around Australia and overseas.
With a passionate, highly skilled and committed staff campus wide of over 5,000, we provide a full range of clinical services, tertiary care and health promotion and prevention programs for children and young people.
We are the designated state-wide major trauma centre for paediatrics in Victoria and a Nationally Funded Centre for cardiac and liver transplantation.
When it comes to training and research we partner with the very best. Our campus partners, the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute (MCRI) and The University of Melbourne Department of Paediatrics, along with the RCH Foundation, are on site with the hospital in Parkville. Together, we are committed to improving the health outcomes for children today and in the future.
In 2016–17, more than 85,654 children attended our Emergency Department, 322,291 specialist clinic appointments were held which was almost 70,000 more than the previous year, more than 17,000 surgeries were performed and more than 48,552 children were admitted to our wards.
