Discipline Lead Lived Experience Consumer

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Austin Health is the major provider of tertiary health services, health professional education and research across three campuses in the north-east of Melbourne and state-wide. We have a highly engaged, diverse and collaborative workforce that is unified by our goal to help people live healthy and fulfilled lives.

About Mental Health Division

The Mental Health Division (MHD) provides care and services through a comprehensive range of teams to meet the needs of mental health consumers and carers throughout Victoria.

About the role

As a Senior Manager in the Mental Health Division, you will work collaboratively with a supportive team of professionals, who are passionate about providing best practice care for consumers. As a member of the executive team you will contribute to strategic planning and will champion the participation and leadership of people with lived experience at every level of the division.

A regular day will see you:

• Oversee the development of the lived experience voice in all Mental Health Division activities, including governance, operations, workforce business development recruitment quality and evaluation.
• Work in close collaboration with the MHD executive team to ensure responses to opportunities arising from the reforms place the lived experience voice at the centre, in keeping with the spirit of the reforms.
• Work with a large range of internal and external stakeholders, including internal corporate services and external community and clinical partners.

About you

You will be someone who has excellent communication skills, with a strong commitment to excellence in patient care. You’ll bring energy and drive to your work and have a keen interest in developing your skillset.

You’ll further have:

• Direct personal (lived) experience as a consumer of a person with mental illness who has required treatment in the Victorian Public Mental Health system.
• Relevant Tertiary Qualifications or equivalent 3 years’ experience in a leadership LLEW role.
• Well-developed understanding of contemporary trends and issues regarding mental health services from a Lived Experience consumer perspective.

Our benefits

Working at Austin Health means enjoying a strong sense of purpose, engaging in meaningful work every day.  Our people also receive a variety of rewarding benefits, including:

• Greater take-home pay through generous salary packaging for living expenses, meals, and holiday accommodation
• A suite of wellness initiatives designed to support you, including discounts on fitness memberships and health insurance, and a comprehensive wellbeing program
• Mentoring and career development opportunities
• Onsite childcare, easy access via public transport, car parking and end of journey facilities for cyclists

Work with us!

We are committed to cultural safety and health equity for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander People. We celebrate, value, and include people of all backgrounds, genders, identities, cultures, bodies, and abilities. We welcome and support applications from talented people identifying as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander, people with disability, neurodiverse people, LGBTQIA+ and people of all ages and cultures.

If you feel this role is right for you, we encourage your early application. Applications will be reviewed as they are received, and interviews may take place prior to the closing date. This means we reserve the right to close a job ad prior to the advertised closing date.

All appointments are made subject to a satisfactory National Police Check and if required, a Working With Children Check. If you require any reasonable adjustments to the recruitment process or have questions about this opportunity, you are welcome to reach out to the hiring manager: Charu Gandhi, Divisional Medical Director Mental Health at Charu.GANDHI@austin.org.au

Interested in finding out more about this opportunity? Read the position description for further details.

Application closing date: Thursday 17 April 2025