Peer Psychosocial Recovery Facilitator
An exciting opportunity to work with a leading digital mental health, adding value with
your leadership skills!
Are you ready to make a difference in the mental health sector?
SANE is committed to creating a brighter future for Australians affected by complex mental health issues, by ending mental health inequity and social and economic exclusion. We provide free digital mental health support services and run a variety of mental health awareness, stigma reduction, research, and advocacy programs. We support diverse workforce segments, including those living with complex mental health issues, and the broader community. We are 100+ people with a volunteer work force of circa 60 people.
Visit www.sane.org to learn more about our work.
About the role
Working in a dynamic digital-first environment that operates 24 hours, the Pee Psychosocial Recovery Facilitator provides safe and high-quality psychosocial support to people accessing SANE’s services in line with best practice principles of mental health and peer work, SANE’s
Model of Care and SANE’s policies and procedures. This role provides omni-channel trauma
informed, recovery oriented, psychosocial support via phone, SMS, chat, forums, video calls, email and participant portals. The Peer Psychosocial Recovery Facilitator also delivers community based, group based and individual support, to empower self-guided participant recovery journeys leading to improved participant mental health and quality of life outcomes.
Key responsibilities of this role include, but not limited to:
·Build trusted, professional relationships that create a safe, recovery-focused
environment.
·Support participants to develop mental health knowledge, skills, and self management.
·Assist with navigating mental health and community services, advocating where needed.
·Strengthen participant capacity, relationships, interests, and community connection.
·Review recovery and safety plans, providing trauma-informed, individualised feedback.
·Maintain connection through digital check-ins, risk assessment, and timely single session support.
·For peer roles, draw on lived experience to foster hope, connection, and empowerment.
·Moderate forums to promote safe, recovery focused engagement and manage risk.
·Contribute to content, discussions, activities, and peer connection.
·Co‑facilitate online groups and events, managing dynamics, engagement, and technical
delivery.
About You
·Demonstrated ability to conduct assessments and develop support plans, apply reasoning and
goal setting in practice, and effectively manage competing priorities through
strong problem-solving and organisational skills
·Significant experience collaborating within a team to achieve common goals
·Experience working in multidisciplinary teams
Essential Qualification & Experience
·Minimum 2 years’ experience working in a specific Mental Health Peer Work, peer facilitation, lived experience workforce role
·Certificate IV in Mental Health Peer Work
·A strong understanding and application of principles of peer work
·Ability to provide peer support in a digital environment.
If this sounds like an exciting opportunity for you, please apply now!
What’s in it for you?
·A friendly and collaborative environment
·Wellbeing Leave after 12 months
·Additional days of Cultural and Ceremonial Leave per year
·Not For Profit Salary packaging & benefits- package up to $18,550 per year!
How to apply
To apply, please submit your resume and cover letter by Wednesday, 15 April addressing the criteria below:
Please note: all SANE
Employees are required to complete compliance checks including a National
Police Check and Working with Children's Check before start date.
Interested?
Applications will be reviewed as they come in so, please Apply Now!
SANE is an Equal Opportunity Employer and we are proud champions of lived experience. We encourage applicants of all backgrounds, including people with lived experience of complex mental health, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with disabilities, people from CALD and LGBTQIA+ communities, and people of all ages to apply.
No agencies please, we've got this!
SANE supports all people in Australia affected by complex mental health issues.
We exist to break barriers, raise expectations, and champion the voices of people with lived experience and their families and communities; to increase peer-led, connected support and drive systemic change.
SANE is unique in our focus of supporting people who experience complex mental health issues, trauma, and supporting the mental health of those who are autistic and people with intellectual disability.
We provide a range of free digital and telehealth support services including peer support, counselling, community forums, peer-led groups, art and social groups and information resources.
SANE is widely respected as a lived experience-led organisation and advocate with a long history of collaboration across and beyond the mental health and suicide prevention sectors.
Guided by our vision, goals, values and behaviours, we help create brighter futures for all people and families facing the challenges of complex mental health issues by working towards ending mental health inequity and social and economic exclusion.
To learn more, visit sane.org.
