Where excellence meets opportunity - discover your next chapter with cohealth

• Part time, Ongoing role
• Based in Footscray
• Work for a multi-award-winning iconic community health organisation

So why cohealth?

cohealth leads the way in reducing health and social inequity in partnership with people and the communities in which they live. Named Premier's Health Service of the Year (Primary) and the Supporting LGBTIQ+ Health Service at the Victorian Public Healthcare Awards, cohealth's 1000 staff demonstrate courage, leadership, innovation, and agility in their commitment to providing inclusive and culturally safe health services that protect the human rights of all people of all gender identities, sexualities, ages, cultural and linguistic backgrounds, faiths, and abilities.

Our inclusive workplace culture enables staff to bring their whole selves to work, where uniqueness is valued, and people experience a feeling of belonging. Our aim is for everyone to thrive in their role. Please click here to find out more.

About the role

Peer Workers will use multi-disciplinary, assertive, integrated, and flexible approaches that address immediate crisis support needs, through to longer term support to establish safe and affordable long-term housing with mental health, AOD and other health supports in place.

Please refer to the Position Description for more information.

Your duties include:

• Purposefully share your lived experience of mental illness, homelessness, and/or substance use to support and inspire consumers in their recovery journey
• Empower consumers to take an active role in their goal-directed care by introducing recovery principles and fostering hope
• Provide community-based support that is strengths-based, recovery-oriented, and aligned with each consumer's goals
• Deliver care using a consumer, carer, and community engagement lens, incorporating co-design and a whole-of-health approach
• Provide high-quality, trauma-informed support at all times

What cohealth offers:

• Exciting Parental leave benefits
  • cohealth offers primary carers 14 weeks paid parental leave upon completion of only 6 months of continuous service
  • Eligible co-workers will continue to receive superannuation on unpaid parental leave as well
• Salary packaging to suit you - tax free amount of up to $15,900 p.a (mortgage, rent, or credit cards) and a further $2,650 p.a (meal, entertainment expenses and holiday accommodation) alongside generous reward programs from our salary packaging providers. Find out more on salary packaging here: https://www.ato.gov.au/Individuals/Jobs-and-employment-types/Working-as-an-employee/Salary-sacrificing-for-employees/
• Novated Leasing available
• A significantly discounted fitness membership with unlimited access to over 290 facilities for you and your family. To find out more click here
• Counselling services for you and your immediate family through our EAP-Access provider, and mindfulness, resilience, and wellbeing programs
• We offer inclusion, equality, and opportunity in a workplace where making a difference counts (based on our guiding principles and values)

Our ideal candidate:

• Relevant tertiary qualification combined with strong practical skills in using technology, including the Microsoft Office suite and other digital tools, to support connection, communication, and documentation
• Demonstrated lived experience and engagement with the service system
• The ability to use personal experience of homelessness or housing insecurity, mental health challenges, or substance use, to support others within a recovery-oriented and peer-informed framework

Application Process

To download the PD, and to apply for this job go to: https://cohealthcareers.org.au/Current-Jobs & enter ref code: 6847334.

Applications close 21 January 2026 at 10pm

If you have any questions regarding this role, please contact Joshua Gliwa Joshua.Gliwa@cohealth.org.au

We will be conducting interviews for this role as applications are received.

All appointments are made subject to a satisfactory Nationally Coordinated Criminal History Check (NCCHC), a Working with Children Check (WWCC), complete a Pre-Employment Declaration Form, evidence of legal rights to work in Australia, and evidence of vaccination.

Successful applicants will be required to provide evidence of immunisation assessment including Influenza within 12 weeks of commencement [B]. This is in accordance with the Victorian Minister of Health Mandatory Vaccination Orders and legislated requirement for influenza vaccination.