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Job no: 931679
Work type: Full time
Location: Murray and Mallee
Categories: Administration, Business and Management, Mental Health
Riverland Mallee Coorong LHN, Murray Bridge
OPS2 Operational Services Officer Level 2 $64,194.00 p.a. to $67,154.00 p.a.
Full time Term Contract (temporary up to 07 April 2028)
Eligibility: Open to Everyone

About the Role:

Join a supportive, multidisciplinary mental health team where your lived experience can make a real difference. As a Peer Support Worker, you’ll help deliver recovery-focused, evidence-based support across community, acute, and rehabilitation settings—empowering consumers to achieve their goals and better understand their own recovery journey. Working alongside clinicians, you’ll provide practical, day-to-day assistance while sharing insight, hope, and encouragement drawn from your personal experience.

What We're Looking For:

Essential Criteria

Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build rapport with diverse consumers, families, and multidisciplinary teams.
Lived experience of mental health recovery, with the ability to provide empathetic, non-judgemental, and practical support.
Ability to work collaboratively, manage priorities, and maintain professionalism, integrity, and confidentiality.
Experience supporting people with mental health challenges and engaging with community, health services, and diverse cultural groups.
Understanding of mental health, recovery principles, self-management strategies, and a commitment to culturally appropriate care.
Desired Criteria

Willingness to undertake further relevant training, with experience supporting others in recovery from mental health challenges or disability.
Experience delivering one-on-one and group support within community, health, or service settings.
Knowledge of mental health recovery principles, consumer rights, and available community resources and services.
About Us

The Riverland Mallee Coorong Local Health Network, called RMCLHN for short, supports more than 70,000 people living in country South Australia in the towns and surrounds of Renmark, Paringa, Berri, Barmera, Waikerie, Loxton, Pinnaroo, Lameroo, Karoonda, Mannum, Murray Bridge, Tailem Bend, Meningie, Tintinara and Coonalpyn. Click here for more information about working for RMCLHN.

We will provide support, both personally and professionally giving you access to a range of education and training opportunities designed to enhance your role.
Offer flexible work arrangements to better balance work, personal life, and family commitments.
Provide an inclusive workplace culture that values diversity, ensuring every employee feels a sense of belonging and safety.
Offer salary sacrifice benefits, watch a short video about what salary packaging is.
Provide Relocation Support, where applicable. More information available from SA Health Careers - Relocation support
Join RMCLHN's Corporate and Administration Professionals Team (video)
Applicant Information

SA Health is committed to providing an inclusive workplace that embraces diversity and inclusion for all employees. We strongly encourage applications from people of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent, culturally diverse backgrounds, members of the LGBTIQA+SB community and people who live with disability and/or neurodivergence.

We are committed to making workplace adjustments to provide a positive and supportive work environment. You are encouraged to let us know if have any support or access requirements during the recruitment process and beyond to ensure you can perform at your best.

The South Australian public sector promotes diversity and flexible ways of working including part-time. Applicants are encouraged to discuss the flexible working arrangements for this role.

Appointment will be subject to a satisfactory Criminal History Check and appropriate immunisation requirements:

DHS Working With Children Check (WWCC)
DHS National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) Worker Check
National Police Certificate (NPC) for employment involving unsupervised contact with vulnerable groups required for this position (E.g. aged care employment or work involving vulnerable clients)
Immunisation Risk for this position is - Category A
SA Health Services are required to implement the Addressing vaccine preventable disease: Occupational assessment, screening and vaccination policy in the workplace.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants are encouraged to apply. Job ref: 931679

Enquiries
Penny Kidd
Team Leader
Phone: 0455095840
E-mail: penny.kidd@sa.gov.au

Application Closing Date

21 April 2026 - 11.55PM

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Advertised: 07 Apr 2026 Cen. Australia Standard Time
Applications close: 21 Apr 2026 Cen. Australia Standard Time