Consumer Consultant, Wellness and Recovery Centre

7 days ago

Dandenong, Australia Monash Health Full time

Reference Number
- 64890
- Employment Type
- Fixed Term Part Time
- Entity
- Monash Health
- Department
- Psychology and Specialist Services
- Location
- Dandenong Hospital
- Position Summary
- Eating Disorders
- Supportive Team Environment
- Level 2 or Level 3 applicants encouraged to apply

**About Monash Health**

**About the Mental Health Program**

Monash Health Mental Health Program provides a range of community, bed-based and specialist services covering the Casey, Cardinia, Greater Dandenong, Kingston and Monash LGAs - a population of nearly one million. It has an operational budget of $130 million and employs approximately 820 EFT, representing over 1000 staff.

Psychology & Specialist Services (PsySS) in the mental health program runs a number of programs across Monash Health including the Wellness and Recovery Centre (WRC). WRC is a specialist eating disorder service offering comprehensive assessment, diagnosis and evidence based treatment to individuals affected by anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge-eating disorder, and other specified eating disorder (OSFD).

Services include:

- Adults (18-65yo) Inpatient treatment
- Adults (18-65yo) Outpatient treatment
- Day Program (12-24yo)
- Adolescent Inpatient treatment

**About The Role**

The Consumer Consultant is a 0.4EFT, fixed term position until 30/06/2024. This role is open to level 2 or level 3 applicants.

This position requires the individual to have a personal lived experience of mental illness and recovery, specifically an eating disorder.

This position will support the development of a model of care for a lived experience workforce within the Wellness and Recovery Centre (WRC). This will include research, service design/mapping and quality improvement. WRC provides treatment based services for individuals affected by an eating disorder. Services include, Adult Inpatient Unit, Adult Outpatient, Adolescent Inpatient Support and a Day Program (12-24years).

Consumer Consultants work alongside other clinicians and service leads to maximise consumer engagement and participation in treatment through improved service design, policy development, and in response to consumer experience outcomes.

Consumer Consultants also contribute their knowledge and experience to effect systemic policy change within the Mental Health Program.

**What you need**:

- Working with Children's Check
- Lived experience of accessing mental health services for disordered eating
- Australian working rights

**You Are Also**:

- dedicated to safe best practice & quality care
- committed to delivering patient centred care & a patient advocacy
- enthusiastic, compassionate & able to work collaboratively
- excited to be accountable for and manage specific portfolios in our relentless pursuit of excellence

**What We Offer**:

- access to Monash Health in-house learning portals to further expand your acute clinical skills & knowledge base
- avenues to further develop your leadership & project management skills
- mentorship & career guidance
- support to attend relevant forums & conferences
- a supportive learning environment, should you wish to undertake postgraduate studies

In addition, you will have access to benefits including salary packaging to increase your take-home pay, access to onsite subsidised staff car parking and gym, uniform and the Employee Assistance Program (EAP).

**How to Apply**

Monash Health recognises the value of equal employment opportunity and is committed to patient safety and promoting fairness, equity, and diversity in the workplace. At Monash Health we are relentless in our pursuit of excellence and work to our six guiding principles.

Offers of employment can only be made once all required probity checks have been completed. These include:

- reference checks;
- a clear Police Check conducted within the last three months;
- a current Victorian Employee Working with Children’s Check (or proof of payment for same);and
- proof of immunisation.

A request to conduct probity checks does not guarantee that an offer of employment will be made.

Under the Victorian Public Health orders, all employees working within the Public Health system must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and are required to provide acceptable evidence of their vaccination status. The current orders require evidence of three doses.
- Contact Person
- Name
Position
Phone
- **Fran Craig**

**Manager, Wellness and Recovery Centre**

**0473927036**
- Advertising Closing
- 16/02/2024
- Proposed End Date
- 30/06/2024

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