Lived Experience Inclusion Lead

**Job no**: 522424

**Work type**: part time

**Location**: Sydney, NSW

**Categories**: Research Administration support

**Lived Experience Inclusion Lead**

National Centre of Excellence in Intellectual Disability Health

(The Centre)
- This job is only available to people with **lived experience** of intellectual disability.
- This means the person must have an intellectual disability.
- This is a **part-time** job for 17.5 hours each week.
- Part-time means that the person works less than 35 hours a week.
- This is a **fixed term** job for 2 years.
- Fixed term means that the job is only for a set amount of time.
- The **annual salary** for this job is $53,175.50
- An annual salary is how much a person is paid in 1 year.
- The **Superannuation contribution** for this job is 17% of the annual salary.
- A Superannuation contribution is extra money that a person gets for their Superannuation account.
- The Centre is a part of the Faculty of Medicine and Health at UNSW.
- The Centre is located at the UNSW campus in Kensington, Sydney.

**About the job and the Centre**

The **Lived Experience Inclusion Lead** (Inclusion Lead) will be:

- A leader in inclusive practice
- A mentor for people with intellectual disability at the Centre

The Centre works closely with a group of other organisations called a **consortium**. These consortium members are:

- The New South Wales Council for Intellectual Disability (CID)
- Down Syndrome Australia (DSA)
- Queenslanders with Disability Network (QDN)
- First Peoples Disability Network (FPDN)
- Centre for Disability Studies (CDS)
- Mater Intellectual Disability and Autism Service and Mater Misericordiae (MIDAS)
- University of Melbourne (UoM)
- Telethon Kids Institute (TKI)

The Centre will co-design ways to improve the health of people with intellectual disability.

**The Inclusion Lead will**:

- Work with the Inclusion Manager to make sure that people with intellectual disability are leading work the Centre does.
- Be a representative for the Centre, and will talk to communities, organisations and governments about the work the Centre does.
- Work with the Consortium members, and other organisations, who are based all over Australia.
- The Inclusion Lead will sometimes need to travel to other places in Australia.

The Chief Operating Officer (COO) is the manager of the Inclusion Lead. The Inclusion Lead does not manage any staff.

**The Inclusion Lead should have**:

- Lived experience of intellectual disability
- Experience in co-design with people with intellectual disability.
- A passion for improving healthcare for people with intellectual disability
- Strong skills in mentoring people with intellectual disability
- Confidence to do presentations and have discussions as a part of a large group.
- Ability to work both independently and as part of a team.
- Good time management and organisational skills.

**How to Apply**

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**Other Information**

The University of New South Wales (UNSW) and the National Centre of Excellence in Intellectual Disability Health (the Centre) must follow the laws in the **Anti-Discrimination Act 1977 (NSW)**.
- We will call it the **Anti-Discrimination Act**

The Anti-Discrimination Act helps stop **discrimination** in New South Wales.
- Discrimination is when someone is treated differently because of something about themselves that they cannot change. These things are called **characteristics**.

Characteristics include things like:

- Gender
- Age
- Disability
- Race

An example of discrimination is when someone is not chosen for a job just because they have a disability.

Sometimes there are important reasons why a job should only be available to people who have certain characteristics.

When this happens, employers can be given an **exemption** from sections of the Anti-Discrimination Act.
- An exemption means that the employer has been told that it is OK not to follow certain rules in the Anti-Discrimination Act
- This means that it does not count as discrimination
- Section 126 is the part of the Anti-Discrimination Act that has information about exemptions

Using Section 126 of the Anti-Discrimination Act, UNSW and the Centre were given exemptions to sections 49D and 51 of the Anti-Discrimination Act. This means that UNSW and the Centre can:

- Make research and project jobs that are only for people with intellectual disability
- This is called **designating** a job
- Make announcements that these jobs are only available to people with intellectual disability
- This is called **advertising** a job
- Choose a person for a job because they have intellectual disability
- This is called **recruiting** for the job

It is important to UNSW that:

- Lots of different people work at UNSW. This includes:

- People who have different experiences of:

- **Gender identity**
- This means if a person is a man, woman, or non-binary. It might be different to the gender a person was given when they were bo