For all people in Australia living with mental health and wellbeing challenges to live a life that is meaningful to them.

Position Details

• Full-Time, Permanent Position
• Classification: SCHADS Level 7 with a salary range of $119,212 - $124,192 per annum + Superannuation
• Salary packaging arrangements providing tax benefits available for living and entertainment expenses increasing your take home income where part of your wage is paid tax free each pay, savings thousands in tax each year
• Location: Head Office/Hybrid/Flexible working arrangements

About your new role

The Lived Experience Practice Lead plays an important role within the Service Excellence Hub in elevating and driving national collaboration, learning, and innovation in Lived Experience practice, supporting stream-based and national practice and governance systems.

Stream Lived Experience Practice Leads work alongside other LEPL's to develop, establish and promote high-quality Lived Experience practice, support, and ways of working within their stream and across the organisation. Stream LE Practice Leads also work closely with the Practice and Quality & Consumer Experience teams as core functions of the Service Excellence Hub, ensuring the Lived Experience perspective is integrated across key organisational projects and initiatives.

As a designated Lived Experience leadership position, the LEPL embodies and applies a Lived Experience perspective in all aspects of their role and within the delegated stream, named in the National Lived Experience (Peer) Workforce Guidelines as:

• Learnings from personal, first-hand experience of significant, life-changing or life-altering mental health challenges, distress and periods of healing, service use, or inability to access services
• Collective knowledge of universal lived experiences such as stigma, marginalisation, loss of power, and system hurt, as well as hope, healing, and personal recovery as real
• Professional principles and values such as mutuality, intersectionality, autonomy, hope and sharing power
• And the history of the Consumer movement, advocacy, and actions

What you will bring to the role

• Personal experience of mental health challenges, service use, periods of healing/personal recovery, and demonstrated ability to apply learnings from this as primary knowledge.
• Intentional Peer Support core training, Cert IV Mental Health Peer Work, Hearing Voices training or similar, and/or experience working in a relevant setting
• Deep understanding of the collective LLE perspective, as well as LLE practice approaches.
• Experience in a designated Lived Experience service delivery role.
• Sound knowledge of discipline-specific supervision, coaching, and mentoring skills, and/or preparedness to undertake relevant training.
• Demonstrated leadership and/or consultation experience.
• Personal lived/living experience of recovery as a family, friend or carer. Your recovery experience may be related to mental health, suicidal crisis, drugs and alcohol use or trauma
• Willingness to identify or be identified by others as a professional with lived experience of recovery
• Willingness to share and draw on lived experience purposefully in the role to instil confidence and hope in others about the journey of recovery
• National Criminal History Check (police check) - disclosable outcomes considered
• Current Working with Children Check
• Australian working rights
• A valid driver's licence

What will Neami offer

• Generous leave entitlements including Gratis Leave, Wellness Leave and Parental Leave
• Optional monthly Accrued Day Off
• 17.5% Annual Leave Loading
• Flexible work arrangements are available for maintaining your work-life balance
• Professional development through regular practice development sessions and coaching with your supervisor
• Ongoing extensive in-house Learning and Development programs to encourage learning and skill-building
• Fitness Passport membership to support your health and wellbeing (available in most States/Territories and subject to minimum working hours and/or length of service)
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) through TELUS - providing holistic health and wellness supports and resources to Neami staff and their immediate family

How to Apply

The terms and conditions of the role are listed in the position description which can be found on the Neami Job Vacancy portal (please select the paperclip icon in the top right-hand corner) or find attached.

To apply for this position, please:

• Click the 'Apply now' button where you will need to create a username and password
• Upload your resume and cover letter.

If you have any further questions not addressed in the job advertisement or position description, or if you require any adjustments to participate in the recruitment process, please contact:

Jemima Isbester National Lived Experience Practice Lead

• Email: [email protected] using the subject line: Lived Experience Practice Lead - Mental Health Hubs - Preston enquiry via EthicalJobs.
• M: 0491207184
  

If you have any technical issues when applying for this role, please email [email protected] for assistance.

Be Yourself - Neami values and celebrates diversity including multidisciplinary teams and the unique backgrounds, experiences and contributions that each person brings to our community. First Nations people, those identifying as LGBTQIA+, people with disabilities and culturally and linguistically diverse people are encouraged to apply. Our aim is to create a workforce that is accessible, inclusive and reflects the community in which we live.

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