Peer Worker - Trans Mental Health and Wellbeing Sydney
Core
Provide peer navigation, support, mentoring, and advocacy to trans and gender diverse community members using lived experience.
Role type
Peer Worker (Trans Mental Health & Wellbeing)
Builds
Peer support services and navigation for trans/gender diverse individuals
Domain
Health & Social Services (Mental Health, HIV, LGBTQ+)
Deliverable
client delivery
Required skills
lived experience of gender affirmation, peer work principles, trauma-informed support, advocacy, cultural humility
Preferred skills
knowledge of peer/consumer movement, understanding of systemic factors impacting trans mental health
Technologies
electronic client record management system
Responsibilities
Provide peer navigation and support to trans/gender diverse people; build authentic peer relationships; recognize and respond to distress; support navigation of gender affirmation journeys; facilitate shared learning and self-advocacy; maintain client records; collect service data; contribute to service development and supervision.