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Senior Family Peer Worker
Yarrabilba or Caboolture
The Senior Family Peer Worker role is grounded in lived experience, recognising that individuals who have navigated mental illness and parenting challenges—and achieved recovery—with training, can offer unique, hope-inspiring support to others. Drawing on their personal journey and specialised training, they act as positive role models, fostering self-awareness, self-determination, and a hope-focused approach to parenting.
Job details
| Position status | Fixed Term Temporary |
|---|---|
| Position type | Full-time |
| Occupational group | Health - Children's Health Queensland |
| Classification | AO4 |
| Workplace Location | Brisbane - North,Brisbane - South |
| Job ad reference | QLD/H26CHQ682279 |
| Closing date | 20-May-2026 |
| Job duration | Until July 2027 |
| Contact person | Mel James |
| Contact details | 0459 825 801 Access the National Relay Service |
About the Team
The Integrated Child and Youth Mental Health Service (CYMHS) provides complex secondary and tertiary level health care. CYMHS offers specialised mental health services for families with infants, children and young people (birth to 18 years) who experience severe and complex mental health problems, and where their needs cannot be met by other services. CYMHS provides a comprehensive, recovery-orientated mental healthcare service that aims to improve the mental health and wellbeing of children and young people and their carer networks. Recovery principles are embedded into service delivery, culture and practice, providing consumers and their families, in collaboration with other services, access and referral to a range of programs that will support and sustain recovery. CYMHS combines hospital and community-based facilities to provide free consultation, assessment and treatment of children and young people experiencing serious mental health disorders and problems with their carer network.
About the Role
Working within CHQ CYMHS and the H2HK-Q Brisbane Service, the Senior Family Peer Worker supports the development, planning, and delivery of services for families, carers, and children. They collaborate closely with the multidisciplinary team to enhance outcomes, while ensuring care remains child- and family-centred. The role also contributes to consumer participation and systems advocacy by embedding the perspectives of consumers, carers, and families across service planning, delivery, and evaluation. This includes actively promoting inclusive practice, supporting staff in family-centred approaches, and communicating the collective voice of families to inform continuous service improvement.
About Children's Health Queensland Hospital and Health Service (CHQ HHS)
Children's Health Queensland is a recognised leader in paediatric healthcare, teaching and research, delivering a full range of clinical services and training, tertiary and quaternary care and health promotion programs to children and young people from across Queensland and northern New South Wales.
Our interprofessional workforce of more than 5,000 people deliver responsive, integrated and internationally recognised person-centred care through a network of services and facilities, including the Queensland Children's Hospital, Jacaranda Place, Ellen Barron Family Centre, our Child and Youth Community Health Service, our Child and Youth Mental Health Service, and other statewide services and programs including specialist outreach and telehealth services.
Inclusion and diversity
To encourage inclusive practices in recruitment, we are committed to increasing our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Workforce and building inclusive cultures that respect and promote human rights and Workforce Diversity and Inclusion. CHQ is an equal opportunity employer.
Some of the great benefits of working at CHQ HSS
If you're looking for a rewarding career, and you're excited to contribute to the development of Australia's best paediatric health service, come and join the team at CHQ and enjoy a range of benefits including:
- Opportunities for professional growth and development
- Competitive renumeration
- Annual pay increases
- 12.75% employer superannuation contribution
- 17.5% annual leave loading
- Salary packaging
- Employee wellness and assistance program
- Work/life balance, variety, and flexibility
You can find out more about why it's so great to work at CHQ HHS here.
Further information
We are committed to building inclusive cultures in the Queensland public sector that respect and promote human rights and diversity.
Applicants are encouraged to apply online. Please review the Role Description, Information Pack and Applicant Tool Kit for more information on application process requirements. Agency referrals will not be accepted for this position.
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