Statewide Mental Health Services – Mental Health Services – South 

Send Your CV and a brief email outlining your relevant skills and experience and your current manager’s details as a referee to  Cecily Pollard at  cecily.pollard@ths.tas.gov.au.

Please note this is an internal EOI with a closing date of Tuesday 15 September 2026

An exciting opportunity is available for one Consumer and one Family/Carer Peer Worker  to join the team at Peacock Centre for a 3-month contract. (21 September – 11 December 2026 )

• Consumer Peer Worker – 3 days per week
• Family/Carer Peer Worker – 2 days per week

Why is this position exciting? It is exciting because Peacock House is a community bed-based unit, with an admission criterion of 7-10 days, working in collaboration with consumers, families and carers within a multidisciplinary framework with the aim of  hospital avoidance.

The Peer Workers will:

• Be a positive role model working within the Strengths-based Model of Recovery Practice, complementing, and contributing a lived experience to the multidisciplinary team.
• Utilise their own lived experience in a safe and purposeful way to connect authentically with consumers or families/carers, and to provide person-centred, recovery-oriented support to consumers or families/carers at Peacock House
• Draw on their own lived experience and knowledge to support consumers or their families/carers to navigate the mental health system and relevant external support services to optimise best outcomes for consumers, families and carers.