Peer Support Worker jobs in Coffs Harbour, NSW

Peer Support Worker work in Coffs Harbour, NSW

Peer Support Worker roles in Coffs Harbour, NSW sit within consistent demand across clinical and community roles. AOD, complex presentations, and NDIS support are active areas. Private practice is growing. North Coast PHN commissions across the area. peer support worker positions are found across public health services, community organisations, and private practice in the region.

Peer Support Workers occupy a unique and valued role in the mental health sector — their personal experience of mental illness and recovery is the core qualification for the role. They provide one-to-one and group support, model recovery, share coping strategies, and help people navigate the mental health system from a position of genuine empathy.

Mid North Coast Local Health District provides public mental health care across Coffs Harbour and the surrounding area, with Coffs Harbour Health Campus as the main acute facility. Community mental health teams operate from Coffs Harbour and satellite sites across the Coffs Coast.

Qualifications typically required

• Lived experience of mental illness and recovery (essential)
• Certificate IV in Mental Health Peer Work (or equivalent)
• NDIS Worker Screening Check for community roles
• Working with Children Check where applicable

Key employers in Coffs Harbour, NSW

• Mid North Coast Local Health District
• Coffs Harbour Health Campus
• headspace Coffs Harbour
• North Coast PHN
• Uniting (NSW)
• Mission Australia
• Flourish Australia