Senior Lived Experience & Peer Practice Lead

Wellways; Shepparton; Hybrid; AUD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

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Meal allowance

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Parental leave

Employee Assistance Program

Job summary

Wellways invites applications for a Lived Experience Lead to strengthen peer practice within our Mental Health and Wellbeing Local in Victoria. You will provide leadership, supervision, and practice development to Peer Workers, ensuring lived experience informs planning and service improvement.

You will work with the Local service leadership team to embed recovery-oriented practice, mentor peers, and advocate for participant and carer perspectives in decision-making.

Qualifications

• Personal lived experience of mental health challenges and recovery.
• Extensive experience in mental health and/or AOD sector in a consumer perspective role.
• Completion of or active enrolment in Certificate IV in Mental Health Peer Work or equivalent.
• Formal training in Intentional Peer Support (IPS) or knowledge of IPS as a framework.
• Willingness to undertake police checks and working with children checks or NDIA checks.

Responsibilities

• Lead lived experience practice across the Mental Health and Wellbeing Local.
• Provide supervision and practice development to Peer Workers.
• Shape service planning with participant, family and carer perspectives.

Skills

Lived experience leadership

Peer work

Empathy

Collaborative

Education

Certificate IV in Mental Health Peer Work

IPS training

Tools

Intentional Peer Support (IPS)

Job description

Wellways invites applications for a Lived Experience Lead to strengthen peer practice within our Mental Health and Wellbeing Local in Victoria. You will provide leadership, supervision, and practice development to Peer Workers, ensuring lived experience informs planning and service improvement.

You will work with the Local service leadership team to embed recovery-oriented practice, mentor peers, and advocate for participant and carer perspectives in decision-making.