Lived Experience Project Officer

3 weeks ago

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia Metro South Health Full time
Bring your lived experience, leadership and passion for recovery to shape and strengthen Crisis Support Spaces across Metro South Health.

Your lived experience is your strength — use it to lead, support and transform mental health and recovery services for our community

Your New Role

In this role, you will play a key part in supporting the Metro South Addiction and Mental Health Service (MSAMHS) Crisis Support Spaces and advancing the lived experience workforce.
  • Lead the evaluation, reporting and strategic development of MSAMHS Crisis Support Spaces.
  • Provide operational and professional support to the Lived Experience Workforce across MSAMHS.
  • Supervise and mentor members of the Social Inclusion and Recovery leadership team.
  • Actively contribute as a member of the Statewide Crisis Support Space leadership team.

Under s25 of the Anti-Discrimination Act 1991, there is a genuine occupational requirement that applicants are persons who have a lived/living experience of mental health challenges, substance use challenges, service use and recovery, or have been a carer for somebody experiencing these challenges

About You

We are looking for a motivated and collaborative professional who brings both lived experience and strong leadership skills to the role.
  • You have lived or living experience of mental health challenges, substance use challenges, service use and recovery, or caring for someone with these experiences.
  • You bring proven experience in leading and delivering system-wide or state-wide projects with measurable outcomes.
  • You demonstrate high-level strategic, analytical and report-writing skills, with the ability to turn data into meaningful insights.
  • You are an effective communicator and relationship-builder, confident in engaging with stakeholders including consumers, carers, colleagues and partners.

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What We Can Offer You
  • We offer a family-friendly work environment that supports you in making the most of Queensland's laid-back lifestyle.
  • We are renowned for teaching and research excellence with strong relations with Queensland's leading tertiary institutions.
  • We want to empower you to build a long-term career, with countless opportunities to learn and grow, no matter your role
  • You'll have all the benefits of working for Queensland's world-class public health system including generous leave entitlements, attractive salary and remuneration packages, salary packaging and access to relevant professional development allowances and/or leave, study and research assistance, corporate discounts and employee wellness programs.

About us:

Metro South Addiction and Mental Health Services provide inpatient, hospital-based and community mental health and community alcohol and drug services for all age groups across a number of campuses .

We embrace a forward looking, progressive approach and work collaboratively with all stakeholders in order to achieve expected outcomes. A clear and strong consumer and carer focus is promoted with our vision being to provide our community excellence in consumer centred, integrated care across the continuum of addiction (alcohol and drug) and mental health services.

INTEGRITY | COMPASSION | ACCOUNTABILITY | RESPECT | ENGAGEMENT | EXCELLENCE

Our values were created by employees for employees to shape our culture and inspire positive interactions in the workplace. Diversity of ideas, skills, traditions, and customs is celebrated as one of our greatest strengths. Having a workforce that reflects and understands the needs and expectations of our community is important to delivering safe, kinder, and more inclusive care.

We recognise our strength comes from the diversity of our people and so we encourage people of all genders, ethnicities, ages, abilities, languages, sexual orientation, and family responsibilities to apply.

We Are Metro South Health

We are the major public healthcare provider for Brisbane's south side, Logan, Redlands, and the Scenic Rim operating five major hospitals and a range of community, specialty, and state-wide healthcare services.

We are bold, innovative, collaborative, inspiring. We save lives, change lives, and make the world a better place. We are part of and proud of the community we serve.

We are better together .

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