Mental Health Perinatal Peer Worker, Nurturing Connections, Caregiver child Relationship Program

An incredible opportunity for a perinatal peer worker to join the NSLHD Nurturing Connections Team. We are are looking for a person who can bring their lived experience of mental health challenges and early parenting to support families impacted by mental illness, psychosocial stressors and early parenting challenges.

Employment Type: Temporary Part Time until 30 June 2028 (with possibility of ongoing employment)
Position Classification: Dependent on qualifications
Hours Per Week: 15
Requisition ID: REQ678829

Salary per hour:
Health Education Officer Non-Graduate $34.08 - $49.29
Health Education Officer Graduate $39.98 - $56.76

Who we are: We are a health service that touches thousands of lives across the Northern Sydney Local Health District, together as a team of like-minded people. We are passionate, driven and have the skills and knowledge to care for our patients whilst creating the best services possible. Our teams have meaningful, interesting and rewarding work everyday. We challenge and nurture each other, sharing our knowledge and experience so that we can deliver better care for everyone. There's a real sense of belonging here because we value and respect our patients, employees, and teams' voices. You'll feel a real privilege being a trusted caregiver in our patients, their families, their carers, and our communities' lives.

NSLHD is proud of our diverse and inclusive workplaces, a place where health care professionals can thrive and feel they belong. We are committed to ensure that all our people feel respected and participate safely within a work environment without aggression, sexual harassment, discrimination and racism.

Where you'll be working
Nurturing Connections - CYMHS Macquarie hospital with district wide travel required

What you'll be doing
The Nurturing Connections: Caregiver-Child Relationship Service aims to improve outcomes for children and families through evidence-based assessment and intervention for caregivers and their infants and young children. The team will work with caregivers who are pregnant or caring for a child up to age 4. The focus of intervention is on improving responsive caregiver-child relationships and the quality of family relationships; increasing strength, skills and competencies of caregivers and their children and improving caregiver capacity to manage mental health and psychosocial stressors.
This Peer Worker (PW) position is based on the Perinatal & Infant Mental Health (PIMH) Nurturing Connections (NC) team. This position will work collaboratively with other team members to develop, provide and evaluate individual perinatal peer support as well as perinatal emotional wellbeing and recovery focused group and dyadic interventions, delivered via both face-to-face and via telehealth modes. The PW will draw upon their lived experience of perinatal mental health challenges and their personal recovery journey to develop empathic relationships and support personal recovery for consumers of Northern Sydney Local Health District (NSLHD). Specifically, the position will support parents/carers experiencing mental distress during pregnancy or the first 5 years of their child's life. The goal of the position is to support parents/carers through their mental health service journey by providing individual consultations, education and group interventions aimed at facilitating recovery principles of hope, choice, self-determination, and social connectedness. The Perinatal Peer Worker will facilitate and support connections to community-based child and family organisations and services and have a key role in the development of resources for consumers, their families and carers, and clinicians.

People of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander background are encouraged to apply.

Candidates will need to meet the following criteria: