Job Summary
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- Job posted on: 28th May 2020
Bring your lived experience to the LifeConnect Suicide Prevention and Postvention Service in providing support and capacity building activities to the community.
Neami National have been commissioned by the Eastern Melbourne PHN to deliver suicide prevention services and activities throughout the Inner East, Outer East and Northern Metropolitan Melbourne Region. The program delivers and a suite of capacity building and activities including, training and wellbeing groups as well as bereavement counselling for people impacted by suicide.
Lived Experience Workers (LEW) are integral members of the team who present community focused suicide prevention training and also draw on their own direct experience by sharing their insights with workplaces and community groups. The L.E.W. will contribute to the ongoing development of training workshops and service delivery. This role requires a self-driven, resilient, enthusiastic and highly energised individual who is confident in addressing large and small groups of community members with a message that challenges and inspires. The L.E.W. must able to draw on their own resilience and be active in managing their wellbeing.
This role requires a self-driven, resilient, enthusiastic and highly energised individual who is confident in addressing large and small groups of community members. Our preferred candidate will have exceptional presentation skills and confidence to speak publicly showing empathy, compassion and respect. The role requires the candidate to have a solid understanding of the impacts of suicide and a working understanding suicide prevention theory would be welcomed.
Neami National is a community mental health service supporting people living with mental illness to improve their health, live independently and pursue a life based on their own strengths, values and goals.
In our most recent Staff Engagement Survey, 89% of our Staff recommend Neami as a great place to work, with 87% of staff proud to say they work for Neami.
“Neami’s been amazing for career development. I’ve gone through several different types of roles and positions. Over the last 11 years there have been so many opportunities to engage with, and the organisation really supports people to do that”
If you feel you have the skills and experience to succeed in this role, then please apply now before Sunday 7 June 2020.
The terms and conditions of the role are listed in the position description. If you have any further questions not addressed in the advertising words or position description please contact:
Name: Ed Marrinan, LifeConnect Service Manager
Phone number: 0428 663 109
No recruitment agencies candidates need apply.
We celebrate multidisciplinary teams and value the rich skills and experiences brought by applicants from a range of sectors and professional backgrounds. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are encouraged to apply.
A full position description is attached.