Lived Experience Lead, Mental Health Peer Practice

wellways; Mildura; On-site; AUD 90,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

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Meal and Entertainment allowance

Leave loading 17.5%

Paid parental leave

Employee Assistance Program

Job summary

Wellways is seeking a Lived Experience Lead to strengthen how lived experience informs practice across our Mental Health and Wellbeing Local. You will supervise and develop Peer Workers, helping the broader team value lived experience in service delivery.

You will collaborate with local leadership to integrate consumer perspectives into planning and improvement, mentoring peers to grow in their roles and advance recovery-oriented practice.

Qualifications

• Personal lived experience of mental health/AOD challenges and recovery, with capacity to use lived experience intentionally and purposefully in a senior designated role.
• Extensive experience in the mental health and/or AOD sector, including in a designated lived experience (consumer perspective) role.
• Completion of or active enrolment in Certificate IV in Mental Health Peer Work or equivalent peer work qualification.
• Formal training in Intentional Peer Support (IPS) or demonstrated working knowledge of IPS as a practice framework.
• Satisfactory National Police Check, Working with Children Check and NDIS Worker Screening Check, or willingness to undertake.
• NDIS Workers Orientation module completion certificate.

Responsibilities

• Lead and strengthen peer practice within a multidisciplinary mental health service.
• Mentor and support Peer Workers to grow their capability and impact.
• Help shape service delivery through lived experience leadership and advocacy.
• Bring participant, family and carer perspectives into service planning, practice improvement and decision-making.
• Provide mentoring, guidance and advocacy to strengthen lived experience leadership across the service.

Skills

Lived experience leadership

Peer work

Mental health sector

IPS knowledge

Education

Certificate IV in Mental Health Peer Work

Job description

Wellways is seeking a Lived Experience Lead to strengthen how lived experience informs practice across our Mental Health and Wellbeing Local. You will supervise and develop Peer Workers, helping the broader team value lived experience in service delivery.

You will collaborate with local leadership to integrate consumer perspectives into planning and improvement, mentoring peers to grow in their roles and advance recovery-oriented practice.