Where excellence meets opportunity - discover your next chapter with cohealth

• Full time, Ongoing
• $105,565 base per annum + Superannuation + generous Salary Packaging options
• Work for a multi-award-winning iconic community health organisation

So why cohealth?

cohealth leads the way in reducing health and social inequity in partnership with people and the communities in which they live. Named Premier's Health Service of the Year (Primary) and the Supporting LGBTIQ+ Health Service at the Victorian Public Healthcare Awards, cohealth's 1000 staff demonstrate courage, leadership, innovation, and agility in their commitment to providing inclusive and culturally safe health services that protect the human rights of all people of all gender identities, sexualities, ages, cultural and linguistic backgrounds, faiths, and abilities.

Our inclusive workplace culture enables staff to bring their whole selves to work, where uniqueness is valued, and people experience a feeling of belonging. Our aim is for everyone to thrive in their role. Please click here to find out more.

About the role

Lead the implementation of the Lived/Living Experience Strategy to strengthen and grow lived experience roles across the organisation. Drive inclusive workforce practices across recruitment, onboarding, role design and support, using lived experience to inform organisational improvement through a trauma-informed, strengths-based approach.

Please refer to the Position Description to know more about the role.

Your duties include:

• Lead improvements to recruitment, role design and onboarding practices for lived/living experience positions to ensure equitable, accessible and consistent workforce processes
• Lead initiatives that improve workforce readiness, cultural safety and psychological safety for employees with lived/living experience
• Support learning and development initiatives that strengthen lived/living experience practice, workforce capability and career progression across cohealth
• Lead lived/living experience expertise to program design and service improvement initiatives to ensure lived/living experience perspectives are meaningfully reflected in co-design service models and workforce innovation

What cohealth offers:

• Exciting Parental leave benefits
  • cohealth offers primary carers 14 weeks paid parental leave upon completion of only 6 months of continuous service
  • Eligible co-workers will continue to receive superannuation on unpaid parental leave as well
• Salary packaging to suit you - tax free amount of up to $15,900 p.a (mortgage, rent, or credit cards) and a further $2,650 p.a (meal, entertainment expenses and holiday accommodation) alongside generous reward programs from our salary packaging providers. Find out more on salary packaging here: https://www.ato.gov.au/Individuals/Jobs-and-employment-types/Working-as-an-employee/Salary-sacrificing-for-employees/
• Novated Leasing available
• A significantly discounted fitness membership with unlimited access to over 290 facilities for you and your family. To find out more click here
• Counselling services for you and your immediate family through our EAP-Access provider, and mindfulness, resilience, and wellbeing programs
• We offer inclusion, equality, and opportunity in a workplace where making a difference counts (based on our guiding principles and values)

Our ideal candidate:

• Relevant qualification or equivalent experience in a related field, with demonstrated knowledge or experience in lived/living experience practice, peer work, co-design or consumer leadership
• Strong understanding of culturally safe, psychologically safe and inclusive practice
• Experience leading workforce policy, recruitment, onboarding, role design or related people systems in a complex environment
• Demonstrated commitment to health and social equity and to working in ways that reflect cohealth’s values and human rights-based approach

Application Process

To submit your application please click 'Apply Now' by the closing date.

We will be conducting interviews for this role as applications are received.

If you have any questions regarding this role, please contact Nafisa Yussf on [email protected] using the subject line: Lived / Living Experience Workforce Specialist enquiry via EthicalJobs.

All appointments are made subject to a satisfactory Nationally Coordinated Criminal History Check (NCCHC), a Working with Children Check (WWCC), complete a Pre-Employment Declaration Form, evidence of legal rights to work in Australia, and evidence of vaccination.

Successful applicants will be required to provide evidence of immunisation assessment including Influenza within 12 weeks of commencement [B]. This is in accordance with the Victorian Minister of Health Mandatory Vaccination Orders and legislated requirement for influenza vaccination.