Brophy Family & Youth Services
Youth Peer Worker - headspace
🇦🇺Hamilton, Victoria, Australia14 days ago
A$68,442 – A$74,677ExecutivePart Time
Employee Benefits
About the Role:
This isn’t your standard role, it’s your chance to turn lived experience into real impact.
As a Youth Peer Worker, you’ll be part of the our headspace Hamilton team, working alongside young people to shape the services, programs and spaces designed for them. You’ll bring a youth voice to the table, not as a token, but as a genuine driver of change.
You’ll design and run workshops, consultations, youth groups and events that actually land, creating spaces where young people can share ideas, build confidence and influence what happens next. You’ll also help develop content and resources that feel real, relevant and grounded in what young people say they need.
At its core, this role is about connection. You’ll work in a non-clinical, peer-based way, using your shared experience to build trust, reduce barriers, and support young people to engage with headspace and other services in a way that works for them.
You’ll also contribute behind the scenes by bringing youth perspectives into projects and service design, helping teams think differently and do better. Your voice will help shape how services evolve.
You’ll be part of a supportive, collaborative team, with training, supervision and space to grow all while being trusted to bring your ideas, energy and perspective.
If you’re genuine, curious, open-minded, value connection, and want to use your voice and experience to create meaningful change, this ongoing part-time (0.8 EFT) role is where you can build a career that reflects who you are and what matters to you.
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About Brophy (headspace Lead Agency):
Brophy Family & Youth Services has supported children, young people, families, and the southwest Victorian community for almost 50 years. We live here; this is our community; we believe in people and in their ability to create the life they want. At Brophy, you will join a team of just over 150 employees delivering over 40 programs and services across areas including youth engagement, mental health, family violence, foster care, housing support, employment support, and disability services.
At Brophy our Vision is not just focused externally on our community – we feel just as passionate about our employees being meaningfully connected through their roles with us to create the life they want, and that as a workforce we achieve this together through innovation and healthy relationships, and by positively contributing to building an advantaged community. Brophy’s headspace services are growing across the region – from our Warrnambool services now in operation for almost 15 years; we also provide a satellite service in Portland and are now working to establish a new headspace centre in Hamilton.
Diversity and Inclusion at Brophy:
Brophy is dedicated to fostering an inclusive environment that ensures safety and a sense of belonging for everyone. We embrace individuals of diverse races, ethnicities, genders, sexual orientations, ages, religions, abilities, and nationalities, recognising the richness that varied experiences bring to our efforts in supporting individuals and building stronger communities. Our commitment extends to actively listening, learning, and evolving to become an accessible, inclusive, and secure organisation for all, encompassing First Nations peoples, members of the LGBTIQA+ community, individuals with disabilities, and those with culturally diverse backgrounds.
We’re excited to hear from interested candidates and will be reviewing applications as they arrive. To give yourself the best opportunity, we encourage you to apply as soon as possible, as suitable applicants may be invited to interview or offered the role during the recruitment process.
Please note that we are only able to consider candidates who have the right to work in Australia, and we are unable to provide visa sponsorship for this role.
