Artist in Residence Lived Experience

2 weeks ago


Melbourne, Australia Alfred Health Full time

**Alfred Health**

Alfred Health is a leader in health care delivery, improvement, research and education. We are the main provider of health services to people living in the inner southeast suburbs of Melbourne, from ambulatory to inpatient and home and community-based services.

**Create opportunities for consumers to progress their recovery, through engagement and support of consumers as ‘artists’ with creative workshops**
- ** Part-time to Feb 2024**:

- ** Based in The Alfred's Adult Inpatient Unit**:

- ** Art therapist Grade 2**:

- ** Lived experience of your own mental health challenges**

**What's in it for you**
- ** Supportive multi-disciplinary team environment**:

- ** Development of your personal artistic practice**

**The Department**

Alfred Mental & Addiction Health is responsible for the operation of services, which focus on people with a severe mental illness residing in the Inner South Eastern area of Melbourne.

The single most important goal of Alfred Mental & Addiction Health is to create an environment that facilitates clinical recovery, supports individual recovery efforts and strives to minimise service system barriers to the recovery process.

**The Artist in Residence (AiR) project**

The AiR project is part the Allied Health service’s ‘Fresh Expressions’ programme that seeks innovative, creative ways to engage and deliver its therapeutic Adult Mental Health services. This latest offering is made possible because of generous philanthropic support and a burgeoning creative enterprise model that is creating new forms of therapeutic and creative activities to the meet the needs of vulnerable people across Alfred Health Mental and Addiction Health services.

**The Role**

In this role, you will lead the delivery of three artist workshops with inpatients during the period of the residency, supported by staff (this maybe with the Art Therapist, nursing and/or allied health staff) as required. The content of the workshops may be negotiated by the artist and participants at the time of delivery. Workshops will be 1-1.5 hours duration and take place within the inpatient unit.

You will enable and encourage the engagement, art making and involvement of the creative output of the consumers in the IPU setting, as well as offer advocacy of mental health awareness through art making and art work.

**Qualifications/Experience Required**
- Lived experience of mental health challenges
- Project experience and working with groups
- Tertiary qualifications in creative art stream (desirable)
- Australian working rights
- Full Covid-19 and Influenza vaccination
- Be willing to undergo a Background Check

**Staff benefits**
- Portable long service leave from other public health services
- Great employment benefits as part of Alfred Health - Wellbeing initiatives, access to salary packaging, novated leasing and discounted health insurance and banking
- Great work life balance & located close to public transport, shops and cafes

If this opportunity sounds like it is for you, click the **APPLY **button, include your resume and cover letter.

Alfred Health is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to attracting and retaining a diverse workforce that reflects the community we serve. Applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders are encouraged.

In accordance with the Health Minister's Covid-19 Mandatory Vaccination Order, all Alfred Health employees are required to be fully vaccinated (3 doses) for COVID-19 or hold an acceptable medical exemption. Furthermore, in accordance with the Health Services Amendment (Mandatory Vaccination of Healthcare Workers) Act 2020, health care workers in Category A or B roles (as determined by the department’s risk ratings) are required to be vaccinated against influenza or hold an acceptable medical exemption.

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