Mental Health Lived Experience Worker

2 weeks ago


Warragul, Victoria, Australia Latrobe Regional Hospital Full time

Reference Number

  • 16832

Position Title

  • Mental Health Lived Experience Worker

Employment Type

  • Part Time

Department/Unit

  • Specialist & Therapeutic Programs

Location

  • Community Mental Health Services, Warragul

Enterprise Agreement Classification

  • 7 Victorian Public Mental Health Services Enterprise Agreement Lived Experience Worker Level 2 Year 2

Salary
- $32.50 to $34.21

Hours

  • 56

Position Summary

Mental Health - Consumer Lived Experience Worker

  • Latrobe Regional Hospital and the Specialist and Therapeutic Programs have exciting opportunities for a Mental Health Lived Experience Worker to join the Specialist and Therapeutic team. The position will be based in Warragul Community Mental Health Services, on a part time on going basis of 56 hours per fortnight.
  • Reporting operationally to the Manager of the Warragul Community Mental Health service and clinically to the Manager of the Specialist and Therapeutic Programs and supported by the Lived Experience Senior, this role plays an important role in supporting and consultation with the aim of improving mental health service delivery by ensuring that consumers and carers have a meaningful input in the decision making process at all levels of service management.

The successful applicant will have:

  • Experience as a direct consumer of a mental health service.
  • Current Victorian Driver License
  • Have or be willing to obtain a Working with Childrens Check
  • Welldeveloped communication and interpersonal skills including the ability to consult and liaise with other consumers, carers, staff members and other relevant agencies
  • Display an ability to work with the multidisciplinary team in a respectful and collaborative manner
  • Have good computer literacy
  • The ability to carry out the attached position description
  • The ability to follow instructions and encourage a positive workplace culture

Why work for LRH?

  • A leading Gippsland employer, Latrobe Regional Hospital is Gippsland's specialist referral and trauma centre located 150km east of Melbourne. We are a purposebuilt teaching hospital caring for a population of more than 260,000 people.

Our comprehensive range of services extends to emergency, intensive care, elective surgery, allied health, obstetrics, medical and radiation oncology at the Gippsland Cancer Care Centre, dialysis and aged care.


We offer:

  • A friendly and supportive team
  • A collaborative and innovative working environment
  • Training and education
  • Staff Wellbeing Clinic
  • Career progression opportunities

Our unique difference:

  • Regional lifestyle opportunities
  • Access to excellent schools, health and transport services
  • Generous salary packaging benefits, paid parental leave and flexible working conditions
  • Expanding specialist services with future redevelopments & expansions

Our commitment to you:

  • LRH is recognized as a leading learning hospital providing ongoing career opportunities. We provide a safe and rewarding work environment for all of our staff and have made a longterm commitment to strengthen our organisational culture through leadership excellence, education and training.
  • Now is an exciting time to join our team with significant growth on the horizon.
    Diversity and Inclusion
  • At LRH we value workforce diversity and inclusion, where individual uniqueness is embraced. We value diverse life experiences and the perspectives of our people, whilst providing highquality health care to all members of our community, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, religion, cultural background, disability, or sexuality.
The Victorian Government has allocated funds to support rural and regional Area Mental Health Services (AMHS) to
IMPORTANT:

_ _:

  • All staff employed in the healthcare sector are required to be vaccinated for 3 COVID19 doses and current season influenza vaccination, unless a valid medical exemption applies._

Selection Criteria

  • Essential: Experience as a direct consumer of mental health services
  • Essential: Welldeveloped communication and interpersonal skills including the ability to consult and liaise with other consumers, carers, staff members and other relevant agencies
  • Essential: Good organisation and time management skills.
  • Essential: Ability to effectively participate in meetings, working groups, education sessions and committees
  • Essential: Ability to take direction and work with the multidisciplinary team in a respectful and collaborative manner


Essential:
  • Good computer literacy


Essential:Current Victorian driver license.

  • Desirable: Cert IV in education and training or higher qualification
  • Desirable: Cert IV in Mental health peer work
  • Desirable: Experience in producing, presenting, reviewing and/or teaching education packages

Contact Person

  • Linda Waters

Contact Number

Closing Date

  • 31/05/2023


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