Employment Type: Permanent Part Time
Location: Blue Mountains District ANZAC Memorial Hospital
Hours Per Week: 32
Requisition ID: REQ670979
Applications Close: 12/07/2026
Position Classification & Remuneration: Dependent on Qualifications
Health Education Officer Non Graduate: $32.77 – $47.39 per hour
Health Education Officer Graduate: $37.48 – $59.89 per hour
With CORE Values of Collaboration, Openness, Respect and Empowerment,
working with us will ensure your professional life is provided every opportunity to succeed and develop in your chosen career role.
About Us
Nepean Blue Mountains Local Health District (NBMLHD) is an exceptional environment to advance your career while enhancing your skills and expertise. As a recognised leader in the healthcare industry, we deliver a comprehensive range of public health services across the Nepean, Blue Mountains, and Lithgow Regions.
Blue Mountains District ANZAC Memorial Hospital is an acute hospital that supports a population of approximately 80,000 and is the only ANZAC Memorial hospital remaining in NSW. Easily accessible to Sydney residents, our team of clinicians, allied health, and support staff works with the
community on a shared goal to maintain the delivery of high-quality healthcare in the Blue Mountains region.
Blue Mountains District ANZAC Memorial Hospital is seeking a passionate and dedicated Peer Support Worker to join our Mental Health team. This is a unique opportunity to use your own lived experience of Mental Health challenges and recovery to support consumers on their recovery journey.
As a Peer Support Worker, you will play a vital role in fostering hope, empowerment and recovery-oriented practice by providing support, advocacy and education from a lived experience perspective. Working collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team, you will help ensure services remain person-centred, strengths-based, and recovery focused.
This role provides individual and group-based peer support to consumers accessing Mental Health services. Drawing on personal lived experience of mental health challenges, recovery and service use, the successful candidate will support consumers to build confidence, develop self-management strategies, enhance wellbeing, and achieve their recovery goals.
The role promotes the value of lived experience within the healthcare setting and contributes to the development of recovery-oriented services.
This role will support consumers across four main areas:
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Developing good physical and mental health.
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Access to housing, employment and education.
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Re-discovering a sense of purpose and personal identity.
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Forming active connections to the community of the consumers' choice.
Peer Support Workers work with individuals and groups, are always person-led, and provide support contingent on peer choice. Peer Support Workers will work within the model of care for the team they work in. Apply now to join the NBMLHD team and make a difference in the lives of others!
Benefits available to eligible NBMLHD employees
Opportunity for extra tax savings through Salary Packaging
Novated Leasing
Great education opportunities through Education Training Service which offers over 110 courses each year
Access to our Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for staff and family members
Fitness Passport
NBMLHD is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment which reflects the community we serve. We encourage candidates from all backgrounds, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, LGBTIQA+, Cultural and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) people, neurodiverse individuals, and people with disabilities to apply.
NBMLHD is committed to implementing the child safe standards. For more information, please click here Child Safe Standards
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