• Lead practice development and integration of Lived Experience workforce within Mental Health and Wellbeing Locals
• Ensure the scope of the roles in the Locals are clear, articulated and deeply connected across all disciplines
• Full-time (38 hrs/week) until 31 July 2026 | Location: Burnley, open to locals (Bendigo, Echuca, Dandenong, Melton) and WFH

Mind strongly encourages applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, people with a lived experience of mental ill health and recovery, and applicants from all cultures, genders, sexualities, bodies, abilities, spiritualities, ages and backgrounds.

Mind Australia is one of Australia’s largest providers of community-managed psychosocial services, supporting people experiencing mental health and wellbeing challenges to find help, hope and purpose in their lives. Operating for more than 45 years and employing more than 1,300 staff around Australia, Mind is a leading employer of people with lived experience of mental health challenges, recognising their unique ability to connect with and motivate clients and guide recovery.

About the role

The Mental Health and Wellbeing Locals, otherwise known as “Locals”, act as a front door to the mental health service system and provide a continuum of care and support. Each Mind-led Local has a consortium approach that includes major Health Services, specialist services and services that have deep roots in local communities. 

We are seeking a dedicated and influential Lived Experience Workforce Practice Lead for a fixed term, fulltime (38 hours per week) opportunity until July 31 2026. You will connect and work alongside the Service Operations Manager, Team Leader Lived Expertise, Peer Practitioners and other Operational Leaders to ensure the voice of lived experience is weaved into the fabric and culture of each Local.

Key responsibilities

• Be grounded in the discipline of Lived Expertise, drawing from your own lived experience, informed by a commitment to social change, human rights, dignity and choice.
• Develop strategies using a co-design approach that scope and build the peer work practice in the Locals.
• Listen to the needs of the lived experience workforce and broader workforce at each Local to navigate the practice development process.
• Facilitate development activities in accordance with the Lived Experience Strategy, Peer Work Framework, Model of Peer Work and specifically the Locals Service Model.
• Work collaboratively with internal and external stakeholders, and lived experience workforce to build effective working relationships that lead to successful implementation of the aims of the role.

What you’ll bring

• Completion of Intentional Peer Support Core and/or Advanced training.
• Tertiary qualifications (minimum Certificate IV) are required in Mental Health, Peer Work, Alcohol and Other Drugs (AOD) or other health related field as designated by Mind.
• Ability to share learnings from your personal story in an appropriate and purposeful manner to support, empower, speak about the times of hopelessness and the importance of hope, and support the recovery of service users.
• Proven experience with mentoring and coaching people with lived experience and/or trained to provide consumer perspective supervision or family/carer perspective supervision is highly desirable.
• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to coordinate groups of people, and create connections and build relationships and community.
• A valid driver’s licence is required, as travel between sites may be necessary to fulfil job responsibilities.

Benefits

• Salary packaging up to $15,899 p.a. allows you to allocate a portion of your pre-tax income to cover living expenses (e.g. rent, mortgage, child care, car leasing expenses etc.)
• Generous leave entitlements including 8 weeks paid parental leave, 17.5% annual leave loading, and Monthly Accumulated Day off (Full time employees).
• Access to our Employee Assistance Program (EAP), provided by Converge International, for you and your immediate family members.
• Fitness Passport - Access to our corporate health and fitness program, providing you and family with access to a wide choice of fitness facilities.
• Professional development through regular Practice Development sessions and coaching with your supervisor.

Interested?

To obtain a position description and apply online click Apply Now to visit Mind Careers - reference number 497628. We encourage you to apply promptly as the advertisement may close early should a suitable applicant be sourced. Please contact the person below for more information.

John Bamborough – General Manager – VIC Locals Establishment
[email protected].

We are committed to making reasonable adjustments to provide a positive, barrier-free recruitment process. If you require any support or reasonable adjustments to complete your application, please contact us at [email protected].

The successful applicant is required to complete comprehensive reference and background checking prior to employment, including a Working with Children Check, NDIS Workers Screening Check and the ability to obtain vaccinations against COVID-19.