Employment Type: Temporary Full Time up to 30 June 2027
Position Classification: Health Mgr Lvl 2
Remuneration: 114251 - 134809 full time equivalent base salary range (+12% super + 17.5% leave loading and salary packaging)
Hours Per Week: 38
Requisition ID: REQ670525
Location: Westmead
Applications Close: Midnight on 21 June 2026
For role related queries or questions contact Georgia Farrar on [email protected]
At the Sydney Children's Hospitals Network, every role helps children and young people live their healthiest lives.
As the largest paediatric health service in Australia, we care for thousands of children each year, in hospital and at home. Our people are united by compassion, collaboration and excellence in care.
What you'll be doing
The Mental Health Peer Workforce Professional Lead provides strategic direction, professional leadership, governance, and support for Mental Health Peer Workers and Carer Peer Workers across the Sydney Children’s Hospital Network (SCHN), in alignment with SCHN’s Strategic Plan and NSW Health’s Elevating Lived Experience Expertise: A Framework.
The position is responsible for championing, strengthening and leading lived experience participation, engagement and capability in mental health service planning, co-design, delivery and evaluation across the Mental Health Department and Priority Populations Stream. The Professional Lead drives the development of workforce structures, strategies, and frameworks that sustain a thriving peer workforce, works with leaders to implement and embed peer work roles, and partners with senior leaders to support, develop and grow the peer workforce.
Additional Benefits (where applicable): Flexible work opportunities, Salary packaging and meal entertainment benefits, accrued days off (ADOs), fitness passport, employee assistance program (EAP)
How to Apply:
Click ‘Apply Online’ and submit your application including:
- A resume (maximum 5 pages) outlining your experience
- Responses to the questions below:
- Demonstrated personal lived experience as a consumer with, or carer for someone with, mental health challenges and meaningful recovery.
- Minimum 3 years' experience working in acute mental health service and a Certificate IV in Mental Health Peer Work or relevant tertiary qualification.
- An understanding of the nature of mental health service delivery, including knowledge of State and national policies and directions for mental health services.
- Demonstrated skills in leadership, stakeholder engagement, and problem solving to enable implementation and improvement in service delivery.
- Ability to translate lived experience into safe purposeful, and professional practice leadership. This includes proven ability to uphold peer work ethics, practice standards, and epistemic justice.
- Demonstrated capacity in advanced Peer Work practice, including capacity to provide guidance, reflective supervision and mentoring to Peer Workers.
- Demonstrated abilities in cultivating psychologically safe, inclusive and recovery-oriented workplace cultures.
- Demonstrated ability to contribute to quality improvement, incident review, risk management and policy development while protecting the integrity of peer practice.
Child Safe Standards:
SCHN is committed to maintaining a child-safe environment that respects and upholds the rights of children and young people, in line with NSW Health’s commitment to the Child Safe Standards. We aim to ensure that children and young people feel safe, supported, and included in their care. All current and prospective staff are expected to prioritise the safety, welfare, and well-being of children and young people, actively working to protect them from harm and abuse.
Additional Information:
SCHN is an Equal Opportunity Employer that values diversity, recognising that a diverse workforce strengthens our culture and enhances the care we provide to children, young people and their families.
Permanent NSW Health roles require Australian citizenship or permanent residency. Temporary visa holders may be considered where no suitable Australian citizen or permanent resident is identified.
NSW Health vaccination and screening requirements must be met prior to commencement.
This position requires a Working with Children Check (WWCC) issued by the Office of the Children’s Guardian.
Where required, overseas qualifications must be formally assessed by the Department of Education or relevant authority for recognition in Australia.
An Eligibility List may be created for future temporary full or part time vacancies
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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are strongly encouraged to apply. We recognise the value of Aboriginal staff providing health care to Aboriginal children and families. For application support, visit the NSW Health Aboriginal Recruitment tool, Stepping Up to assist in preparing your application, or contact the SCHN’s Aboriginal Workforce Consultant at [email protected]
For technical support please contact 1300 679 367
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