Trevor Talbot
Ascot
Summary
Practicing from my lived–living and professional expertise, I build authentic, person-driven relationships and guide people confidently through complex systems. My leadership and team management experience helps create trusting connections, encourage shared decision making, and uphold autonomy. Reliability, adaptability and respect for diverse perspectives shape how I foster authentic relationships and collaborate effectively with multidisciplinary teams. Committed to continuous learning and growth, I welcome opportunities to learn new skills and strengthen my practice.
Overview
2026
2026
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Consumer Advisory Group Member
Communify Queensland
05.2025 - Current
- Review internal policies and procedures identifying gaps to provide peer, values based recommendations to management, CEO and the board.
- Advocate internally for organisational shift towards person-driven services
- Work as part of a diverse consumer team, respecting varied perspetivesContributing to group dynamics.
- Provide lived insight to the organisation to promote trust, hope and bridge gaps between services and those who use them.
- Commit to learning and continual evaluation and improvement.
Mental Health Peer Support Worker
Self-employed
07.2024 - Current
- Walk alongside people to build hope, connection, and self-determination.
- Support people to navigate complex service systems drawing on my own intersectional lived and living experience.
- Share lived experience, where appropriate, to build rapport and reduce relational barriers.
- Listen actively and hold space.
- Use de-escalation skills while respecting autonomy and avoiding coercion.
- Support people with everyday tasks.
Volunteer Work, Education and Training
Various
2020 - 2024
- After a period of facing significant barriers and life interruption that changed my outlooks, I focussed on self and professional goals and growth.
- Formal studies and front line engagement with people experiencing homelessness and its intersections.
- Period of self reflection, connection and defining my life's direction which has been integral to the passion I hold for peer work and ongoing learning.
Owner/Operator/Manager
Atlis Strength
2017 - 2020
- Established foundational processes for business operations.
- Recruitment
- Worked with members to problem solve, adapting to individual goals, preferences, and learning styles.
- Trained and guided team members ensuring a psychosocially safe workplace.
- Maintained workplace health and safety standards and reporting.
- Observed each employee's individual strengths and initiated mentoring program to improve areas of weakness.
Owner-Operator/Manager
Ingham Bike Wreckers
1998 - 2010
- Consulted with customers to assess needs and propose best outcomes.
- Recruited and trained employees ensuring safety and ongoing consultation.
- Managed day-to-day business operations.
- Record keeping
Education
Certificate HLTPAT005 - Collect Specimens For Drugs of Abuse
Australian Training Institute
Albion, Qld01-2024
Certificate IV - Alcohol And Other Drugs
Hader Institute of Education
Online 01-2023
Certificate IV - Workplace Training And Assessment
Carmen O'Shea School of Training & Assessment
Hybrid01-2010
Certificate III - Automotive Sales Professional
Motor Trades Association of Queensland
Eight Mile Plains, QLD01-2002
Skills
- Integrate Lived-Living and professional mental health expertise
- Working with intersectionality in relational ways
- Promotion of ethical, client-focused approaches
- Strengths-based and motivational communication
- Team leadership, coordination, and management
- Policy and document review with a consumer and human rights lens
- Dedicated to continuous learning
Certification
- Orientation to Lived-Living Experience for all staff, Lived Experience Training - 2025
- Emotional CPR, National Empowerment Centre - 2025
- AOD Peer Worker: Building Relationship in the Workplace Certificate, QuIVAA: Workshops and Mentoring - 2025
- Module: Confidentiality, Consent and professional boundaries, Insight: Centre for AOD Training and Workforce Development. - 2025
- Module: UNDERSTANDING OURSELVES - Developing your practice framework, Insight: Centre for AOD Training and Workforce Development. - 2025
- Module: WORKING WITH ABORIGINAL AND TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER PEOPLE - Introduction to social and emotional wellbeing, Insight: Centre for AOD Training and Workforce Development. - 2025
- Module: DIVERSE GENDERS, BODIES, AND SEXUALITIES - LGBTIQ+ inclusive education: Introduction to key terminology & concepts, Insight: Centre for AOD Training and Workforce Development. - 2025 - 2025
Timeline
Consumer Advisory Group Member
Communify Queensland
05.2025 - Current
Mental Health Peer Support Worker
Self-employed
07.2024 - Current
Volunteer Work, Education and Training
Various
2020 - 2024
Owner/Operator/Manager
Atlis Strength
2017 - 2020
Owner-Operator/Manager
Ingham Bike Wreckers
1998 - 2010
Certificate HLTPAT005 - Collect Specimens For Drugs of Abuse
Australian Training Institute
Certificate IV - Alcohol And Other Drugs
Hader Institute of Education
Certificate IV - Workplace Training And Assessment
Carmen O'Shea School of Training & Assessment
Certificate III - Automotive Sales Professional
Motor Trades Association of Queensland