Peer Work Team Leader - Adult & Older Adult & Hospital & Emergency Mental Health

Alfred Health

Alfred Health is a leader in health care delivery, improvement, research and education. We are the main provider of health services to people living in the inner southeast suburbs of Melbourne, from ambulatory to inpatient and home and community-based services. On 1 January 2026, Alfred Health will come together with Kooweerup Regional Health Service, Peninsula Health, Bass Coast Health and Gippsland Southern Health Service to create Bayside Health, a newly merged health service with more than 22,000 employees caring for a community of over 1.2 million Victorians. The new health service will provide people with the best possible care with services that support them throughout their lives. The merger will also strengthen our workforce, providing new training, education and career opportunities. Subject to final approval on 1 January 2026, all employees from the five health services will transfer to Bayside Health.

• 2 x Permanent positions, Full-time with flexible ADO
• Based in Alfred location
• Lived Experience Worker Level 5
• Frequent professional development opportunities and regular professional supervision

What's in it for you

• Fitness Passport (Subscription membership to select gyms across Melbourne)
• Supportive multi-disciplinary team environment

About us

Alfred Mental & Addiction Health (AMAH) is responsible for the operation of services, which focus on people with a severe mental illness residing in the Inner South Eastern area of Melbourne.

The single most important goal of AMAH is to create an environment that facilitates clinical recovery, supports individual recovery efforts and strives to minimise service system barriers to the recovery process.

LIVED EXPERIENCE WORKFORCE

The Lived Experience Workforce within AMAH is a growing and thriving workforce of designated lived experience roles. These roles include but are not limited to: Directors of Lived/Living Experience, Peer/Carer Program Coordinator, Senior Peer/Carer Support Workers, Consumer Consultants, Carer Consultants, Discovery College Leads and Educators, Peer/Carer Practice Leads and Peer/Carer Support Workers. We work across the Hospital and Emergency, Adult and Older Adult, headspace and Infant, Child & Youth, and Statewide Services including the Women’s Mental Health Service and the Residential Eating Disorders Service.

What you’ll be doing

The Peer Work Team Leader positions have been created to develop and lead the consumer and carer peer program within both the Adult and Older Adult Service (AOAS), and the Hospital and Emergency Services (HES).

AMAH is an organisation expanding and evolving its lived/living experience peer workforce. These positions have been created to support this workforce and will lead a team of Peer Workers (Consumer and Carer) within AOAS and also HES. These roles are crucial in providing day-to-day operational support, coordinating rosters, and ensuring the well-being of both team members and service users. The Team Leaders will be actively present and available across the community and hospital sites, fostering a supportive and responsive environment.

These positions will play a key role in ensuring that the lived/living experience mental health peer workforce maintains a recovery-orientated focus and is supported:

• in meeting consumer and carer need across all program areas
• is integrated into service delivery systems including clinical systems and teams across the Alfred’s mental health services; and maintains clear scope of practice.

About you

The incumbents must have a lived experience of mental health challenges or have cared/supported someone who has accessed public or private mental health services.

Other requirements are:

• Minimum 3 years of experience in a designated Lived Experience Work role
• Experience working collaboratively with individuals and groups to build and maintain effective relationships within multidisciplinary teams.
• Formal qualifications are not mandatory for this role but may be helpful: Intentional Peer Support training, Peer
• Supervision Training and/or experience in leadership or management.
• Experience leading a team in a healthcare or community setting is desirable
• Australian working rights
• Current Influenza vaccination
• Current Victorian Driver's License and be willing to undergo a Background Check

Other benefits

• Salary Packaging & Novated Leasing through Maxxia.
• Flexible Heath Insurance coverage through HCF Health Insurance
• On-site car (subject to availability) & bike parking opportunities, Deducted Pre-Tax!!
• Fantastic onsite fitness facilities at The Alfred through ProSport Health and Fitness.
• Child Care Services at The Alfred managed by KU Children’s Services

If this opportunity sounds like it is for you, click the APPLY button, include your resume and cover letter. 

For more information regarding the position, please contact Violeta Peterson (Director of Lived/Living Experience Carer) via email [email protected], or Pru Howell-Jay (actiong Director of Lived/Living Experience Consumer) via email - [email protected]

Applications close: Monday 10th February 2026.

We embrace diversity and strive to have a workforce that reflects the communities we serve. We actively encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with disability, and people of all genders, sexualities, and cultural backgrounds.

If you require adjustments to the recruitment and selection process, or require an alternative format to any of the application materials, please don’t hesitate to get in touch with the contact person listed on this ad.

In accordance with the Health Services Amendment (Mandatory Vaccination of Healthcare Workers) Act 2020, health care workers in Category A or B roles (as determined by the department’s risk ratings) are required to be vaccinated against influenza or hold an acceptable medical exemption. 

Website: www.alfredhealth.org.au