• Provide individual & group support + support to the community education team
• Increase your take home pay with up to $15,900 in salary packaging benefits.
• Part-time (45.6 hours per fortnight) Max term role until 30/06/2026, based in Albury

About the opportunity

As a Peer Support Worker, you will provide Peer support to people experiencing difficulties arising from gambling, including gamblers, couples, their families, and significant others. In this role, you will also be required to provide support to the community education team and to develop and facilitate groups.

You will practice as a member of a multi-disciplinary team who plans, develops, implements, and evaluates appropriate gambling and financial counselling strategies.

In this role, you will assist by:

• Helping to access the GambleAware Service through the perspective of lived experience.
• Being part of the Uniting GambleAware team.
• Supporting our Community Engagement Officer to build community connections.
• Sharing your personal experience of recovery from gambling harm to help shape the future delivery of the Uniting GambleAware program.
• Completing a range of administrative tasks such as case note updates.

Click here to view the Position Description.

What’s on offer

In addition to base salary plus superannuation, you’ll also receive 17.5% leave loading and access to the full $15,900 salary packaging benefits.

Paid Parental Leave for up to 10 weeks. 

10% gap discount for childcare services with Uniting Early Learning

About you

If you have lived experience of recovery from gambling harm, or have lived experience of a family member or someone close to you experiencing gambling harm, then we want to hear from you.

You may be the right person to join the GambleAware program as our Peer Support Worker. You will be able to draw on your own lived experience in providing support to clients at various stages of their own recovery journey.

To be successful in this role, the ideal candidate will have:

• Certificate IV in Community Services or Mental Health or willing to obtain while working.
• Personal or family/carer with lived experience of recovery from gambling harm.
• Experience navigating and accessing health care services and mental health services gambling help services (psychologist, counselling, mental health service)
• Relevant work experience involving customer service, administration and/or group/individual support (either paid or voluntary)
• Personal knowledge and experience of support services, formal and informal community networks and primary health services within the Murrumbidgee region.
• Ability to foster and maintain a positive and optimistic outlook towards participants and share relevant lived experiences in an appropriate manner to develop trust and rapport

How to Apply

Click APPLY NOW to submit your interest and we’ll be in touch shortly. We’ll be reviewing applications as they come through as we’re keen to engage with someone.

Please note, interviews may commence prior to application’s closing.

If you have questions about the opportunity, please contact Kaily Goodsell – Manager at [email protected], using the subject line: Peer Support Worker - Albury enquiry via EthicalJobs.

About Uniting

At Uniting we are passionate about working together to inspire people, enliven communities and confront injustice. We have a 5,000 strong workforce of employees and volunteers who deliver a diverse range of services across Victoria and Tasmania.

Visit us: vt.uniting.org. 

Uniting is a child safe organisation and is committed in everyday practice to ensure the safety and wellbeing of all children, at all times. As a ‘child safe’ organisation, employment with Uniting is subject to a satisfactory national (and international where relevant) police check and relevant Working with Children Check in your State prior to commencement of any paid or unpaid work and/or participation in any service or undertaking.

Uniting is also committed to equal opportunity and ensuring the workplace is reflective of the community. We encourage people from different backgrounds to apply, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds and people with a disability.