About the Role

Are you passionate about mental health and helping to educate others? Do you have lived experience of caring for a person with a mental illness or psychosocial disability? Do you get excited about training other carers and enhancing their capacity to care for their loved ones and look after their own wellbeing?

We are excited to announce that we are seeking a casual Carer Peer Trainer with lived experience!

As Carer Peer Trainer, you will provide carer peer experience in the planning, research, design, review, and evaluation of new and existing training sessions as part of MHCN’s training and education program for mental health carers and stakeholders, and development of further training sessions and other relevant activities. You will also use your carer peer experience to facilitate and deliver training sessions for mental health carers and stakeholders, as part of MHCN’s training and education program, and other identified activities as required.

The Carer Peer Trainer role is a designated peer role for a person with lived experience as a carer or family member of a person with lived experience of mental illness. As Carer Peer Trainer, you will call upon your lived experience when delivering training, supporting other carers and when representing them and their needs in the course of your duties.

The Carer Peer Trainer role will work as part of MHCN’s Capacity Development Team (CDT) and Stakeholder Engagement Team (SET). The Carer Peer Trainer will report to the Deputy CEO for HR management such as probationary meetings and performance reviews, supervision and support, and the Stakeholder Engagement Coordinator for work allocation.

MHCN is an equal opportunity employer and encourages applications from all qualified applicants and strongly encourages applications from people with diverse backgrounds including First Nations people, LGBTQIA+ people, culturally and linguistically diverse people, people living with disabilities and people with a lived experience of or caring for someone living with a mental health condition and/or psychosocial disability.

Applications close at 11:59pm, Monday 31 March 2025.

Interested?

Click here for more information on the role, including the MHCN Recruitment Kit – https://buff.ly/llDtYFr