Manager Lived Experience Workforce

**Opportunity to advance your career and develop yourself further**:

- **Attractive salary between $94,000 - $97,000 per annum full time and great salary packaging benefits to increase your take home pay**:

- **Be close to the bay and stepping stone to the gorgeous Mornington Peninsula**

**Who We Are and What We Stand For**

Peninsula Health is the major metropolitan health service caring for a community of 300,000 people. Our Vision is to provide exceptional health and community care. To realise this vision we need people who strive for a sense of achievement, take an interest in their individual growth, enjoy innovation and looking for ways to improve and have a passion for communicating and connecting with others.

In representing Peninsula Health, we expect all employees and volunteers to reflect our values:
**Be the Best, Be a Role Model, Be Open and Honest, Be Compassionate and Respectful and Be Collaborative.** We are One Peninsula Health.

**What You Will Be Doing**

The Manager Lived Experience Workforce is a valued member of the Mental Health leadership team at Peninsula Health committed to upholding the values of the organisation and meeting our goals. Peninsula Health acknowledges and appreciates the lived experience of our clients and carers and support their individual resourcefulness, strengths and abilities through the provision of excellent, specialised mental health care.

The Manager Lived Experience Workforce will provide leadership in the implementation of the Victorian consumer and carer workforce strategies, and the development of peer workforce framework in line with this at Peninsula Health.

**What You Need**

We anticipate you will have:

- Diploma or above level in health, welfare, community development, and/or adult education (or equivalent experience) or Relevant professional qualification in a health related discipline (psychology, nursing, social work, occupational therapy or speech pathology) with current Registration with Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) where applicable
- Demonstrated experience coordinating or working in a mental health program, peer support or lived experience program and/or the development and implementation of consumer/family participation within a mental health service.
- Demonstrated knowledge of recovery orientated practice, trauma informed care and peer support principles.
- Refer to Position Description for further understanding of selection criteria

**What Next**

If you experience any issues signing in or registering, please feel welcome to contact us - the People, Experience & Performance Team on (03) 9784 2700.

**Additional Requirements**

This role must be fully vaccinated for Covid-19 and meet the requirements of the Peninsula Health immunisation policy.

**Join Peninsula Health and help us to deliver safe, personal, effective & connected care to every person, every time. **Selection Criteria Essential: Diploma or above level in health, welfare, community development, and/or adult education (or equivalent experience) or Relevant professional qualification in a health related discipline (psychology, nursing, social work, occupational therapy or speech pathology) with current Registration with Austra

Essential: Demonstrated experience coordinating or working in a mental health program, peer support or lived experience program and/or the development and implementation of consumer/family participation within a mental health service.

Essential: Demonstrated knowledge of recovery orientated practice, trauma informed care and peer support principles.