Job Summary
- Applications close:
- Job posted on: 29th Sep 2021
Applicants must have lived experience of mental health issues or emotional distress and of being a consumer of mental health services.
VMIAC is looking for one (1) Advocate with passion, energy and enthusiasm for working in our Advocacy Team.
VMIAC is the peak Victorian non-government organisation for people with lived experience of mental health issues or emotional distress. We work from a rights based perspective.
Our vision is a world where all mental health consumers stand proud, live a life with choices honoured, rights upheld, and these principles are embedded in all aspects of society.
We undertake individual, group and systemic advocacy and our work includes research and evaluation, education and training, information provision and resource development, as well as limited specialist support programs. We have a strong and continuous focus on engagement with members, and on informing and supporting them in becoming empowered and having their voices heard.
VMIAC is owned, governed, managed and staffed by people with a lived experience. We aim to be an organisation in which the diversity of people with a lived experience can meaningfully and powerfully contribute and the employer of choice for the mental health lived experience workforce. We know that by working well together we become a true force for systems change and reshaping consumer experience.
Essential licence, qualification, or registration requirements
Essential skills, competencies and behaviours
Non-essential requirements
Equipment
Special Conditions
Applications received earlier than the closing date may be assessed, interviewed and offered employment prior to the closing date.
For further information regarding this position, please contact VMIAC on (03) 9380 3900.
For more information please refer to our website www.vmiac.org.au.
A position description is attached.