Family/Carer Workforce member for our Tribunal Advisory Group

The Tribunal is recruiting a Lived and Living Experience Family/Carer member Workforce member for our Tribunal Advisory Group (TAG). We are specifically looking for someone who works in a designated Lived Experience Carer role at a public area mental health service with experience of working with carers of consumers on compulsory treatment. The TAG meets up to 6 times a year and is a paid role.

The Tribunal Advisory Group (TAG) provides opportunities for lived and living experience consumers and family, carers and supporters to:

• Shape and participate in the Tribunal's work
• Advise and assist the Tribunal to maximise opportunities for consumer and carer engagement and participation in the activities of the Tribunal
• Advise and provide input into the Tribunal's operations and strategic planning.

• Strategic and business planning
• Providing advice to the Governance Group on documents, projects or other matters
• Recommending and contributing to projects, communications materials and activities, website and other matters at the Tribunal
• Identifying consumer and carer related issues, and providing expert advice on those issues
• Providing opportunities for two way communication between the Tribunal and the consumer and carer communities
• Promoting, facilitating and monitoring consumer and carer participation activities at the Tribunal

The Tribunal Governance Group may refer documents, projects or other matters to the TAG for advice and input.

The members of the TAG will be selected on the basis of individual ability to contribute to the purpose of the TAG as outlined in the Terms of Reference. TAG members will be selected by the Chief Executive Officer in consultation with the Senior Adviser Lived Experience and a senior member of the Tribunal.

The TAG consists of 11 members or more, made up of:

• 2 lived and living experience consumers who work at public mental services in designated lived experience roles
• 2 family and/or carers who work at public mental services in designated carer lived experience roles
• 2 consumers with recent or current lived and living experience
• 2 family and/or carers with recent or current lived experience
• A senior member of the Tribunal
• Chief Executive Officer (CEO)

The first four categories of member are known collectively as TAG community members. TAG community members will have recent lived experience of mental ill health as consumers and/or family, carers and supporters. Prior or current experience with consumer or carer Advisory groups, participation in other working or reference groups, and experience of tribunal hearings will be highly regarded.

While some members may come from organisations in the mental health sector, TAG community members will be expected to provide individual expertise and guidance to the group rather than represent the views of their organisations.

In addition to lived experience, the Tribunal will endeavour to ensure that the TAG membership reflects the composition of the Victorian community. The TAG Expression of Interest form has provision for identifying diversity in membership. In selecting the TAG membership the Chief Executive Officer will have regard to principles of diversity, including:

• Lived and Living Experience
• LGBTQIA+ people
• People from CALD backgrounds
• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island people
• People from different locations, including rural and regional areas
• People with disability
• Age

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