• Lead and support the delivery of high-quality, recovery-focused care
• Utilise own living / lived experience to walk alongside service users
• Permanent Full Time 38 hours/week |Bendigo & Echuca Locals – Echuca location 

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 Adult and Older Adult Mental Health and Wellbeing services, otherwise known as “Locals”, act as a front door to the mental health service system and provides a continuum of care and support including clinical interventions, wellbeing supports, and therapeutic support through an integrated mental health and alcohol and other drug framework approach. 

We are seeking a self-motivated and approachable Team Leader (Lived Expertise) for a permanent, full time (38 hours per week) position championing the voice of lived experience, advocating for human rights and providing an alternative to traditional mental health responses through the practice of mutuality, based in Echuca. You will work with the team and support them to understand how to integrate their lived experience into their work, supporting service users by identifying how they would like to move towards what is possible in their lives and focusing on relational care. 

Key responsibilities

• Provide discipline-specific and practice supervision/line management to staff who are providing direct support to service users and facilitate reflective practice.
• Utilise your Lived Expertise to promote an inclusive, affirming and destigmatising culture that values lived experience and the active inclusion of service users, carers, and families in the work we do.
• Support the development of a consistent narrative on the value of Lived Experience to the service across quality, values and service outcomes.
• Positively influence and contribute to a service and team culture that focuses on relational practice, meeting people where they are at.
• Support staff to develop skills to facilitate family, carer and supporter meetings, run family, carer and supporter events and develop family and/or parenting recovery goals. 

What you’ll bring

• Completion of Intentional Peer Support Core and/or Advanced training is required. Other peer work training completed will be considered
• Tertiary qualifications in Mental Health, Peer Work, Alcohol and Other Drugs (AOD) or other health related field as designated by Mind are also desirable but not required.
• Experience as a peer worker or holding a designated lived experience role
• Experience in leadership and capability to coach, mentor and develop a team to achieve the provision of service that best supports the communities needs
• Experience in Community Services, AOD, Mental Health, Disability, Social Welfare, Housing, Healthcare or Government sectors 

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.)
• Option to access Meal and Entertainment allowance up to $2,650 p.a. via Salary Packaging.
• 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 apply click Apply Now to visit Mind Careers - reference number 497043. 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. 

Lisa Henderson – Service Operations Manager

[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.