Team Leader for The Lived Experience Workforce

**Title**:Team leader for the Lived Experience Workforce**:

- Requisition ID: 2607
- Location: Box Hill, VIC, AU, 3128
- Job Posting Date: 20 Jan 2025

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**Team Leader | Lived Experience Workforce**
- Temporary Part time | Experience work-life balance
- 0.6 EFT | 45.6 hours per fortnight | Experience flexible working
- Eastern Metropolitan Region - primarily based at either Richmond or Box Hill, will negotiate suitable site with successful applicant dependent on their location

Turning Points Lived Experience Workforce are looking for a team leader to join our growing team. The Team Leader for the Lived Experience Workforce will play a vital role in providing support, guidance and mentorship to our lived experience workforce comprising of lived experience peer workers and trainees. The role will be based across Turning Points sites including Richmond, Box Hill and Ringwood.

**About Eastern Health**

Eastern Health is one of Melbourne’s largest public health services. We provide a range of emergency, surgical, medical and general healthcare services, including maternity, palliative care, mental health, drug and alcohol, residential care, community health and state-wide specialist services to people and communities that are diverse in culture, age, socio-economic status, population and healthcare needs.

**About Turning Point**

Turning Point was established in 1994 to provide leadership to the alcohol and drug field in Victoria. Turning Point is now a national treatment, research and education centre that provides leadership in the alcohol and drug, gambling and mental health sectors. Combining research with service innovation, surveillance, system enhancements, education, capacity building and specialist support, Turning Point is a recognised centre of excellence that assists services, communities and governments to respond to current and emerging issues. Turning Point is part of Eastern Health and is affiliated with Monash University.

**About the role**

Are you a someone who has used adult public alcohol and other drug health services?

Are you passionate about supporting staff, or are ready to take the next step in your lived experience career, to help them grow and develop in their roles?

Are you excited about the thought of joining a growing team of lived experience workers across Turning Point?

Well, an exciting opportunity now exists for team leader to take up a role within Turning Points Lived Experience Workforce.

The role of the team leader will be to provide support, guidance and mentorship to our lived experience workforce comprising of lived experience peer workers and trainees.

This role also requires independent and autonomous work practices.

**About you**

To be successful in this role you will possess:

- Lived experience of substance use and recovery, and a demonstrated ability to utilise lived experience purposefully and intentionally to provide hope and a belief in recovery
- Previous work experience within the AOD sector as a lived experience worker including experience with supervising and supporting staff
- Ability to work within a multidisciplinary team including the ability to express own viewpoint and respect the views of others
- the ability to manage time and resources effectively
- well-developed word processing (Microsoft Office suite), PowerPoint and other computer skills, including the ability to navigate online platforms

Please refer to the attached position description for further details of the role.

**What we offer**

Eastern Health offers a variety of fantastic Employee Benefits.

As the team leader for the lived experience workforce, you will receive the following additional benefits:

- Access to training related to the role
- Regular supervision
- Flexible working hours
- Salary packaging options

**Next Steps**

**Good to know**:

- We are an equal opportunity employer and actively promote equality for people of all races, ethnicities, gender identities, sexual orientations, and for people living with disability - within the communities we serve and our Eastern Health team.
- We provide a culturally safe and welcoming environment for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander employees.
- As a child-safe organisation, we ensure child safety and wellbeing is embedded in our everyday culture.
- Vaccination and screening for immunity to vaccine-preventable disease is a mandatory requirement of this role.
- Advertising may end before the closing date.

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