Team Leader

New Lived/living experience leadership role, Ivanhoe
- Not for Profit, salary packaging benefits, flexibility & wellbeing support
- Collaborative, highly skilled team career development opportunities

**About the **North East Metro Mental Health and Wellbeing Connect**

Access Health and Community lead the North East Metro Connect in partnership with Self Help Addiction Resource Centre (SHARC), healthAbility and Inspiro, to deliver mental health and wellbeing services for families and carers in Northeast Metro region of Victoria. We aspire to provide a service of hope, recovery and humanity to improve the mental health and wellbeing of families and carers within our community. Our service is codesigned, governed and led by people with lived/living experience as families or carers of people with mental health and/or substance use challenges.

**The opportunity**

The Team Leader provides operational leadership to staff, including Family and Carer Peer Workers, Social Workers, and Family Clinicians. This role ensures that the staff is fully supported and equipped to deliver quality services to family, carers, and supporters of individuals, with mental health and/or substance use challenges. The Team Leader will also deliver individual and group-based services to family and carers, drawing on their own lived/living experience as a family member. Supported by the Lived/Living Experience Practice Lead and Program Manager, the Team Leader works closely and collaboratively with staff to provide welcoming, responsive, and flexible services for families, carers, and supporters.

**What you will be doing**
- Lead, mentor and support staff who work alongside you in delivery of services.
- Draw on your lived experience and understanding of mental health and/or substance use as a family member to connect and engage with people who are accessing services and programs.
- Provide a safe, welcoming and compassionate environment for families to feel supported, listened to, and understood.
- Understand and reflect on families’ support needs and work to increase the capacity of the North East Metro Connect to flexibly respond to the needs of people who access the service.
- Work to inspire hope and confidence in families, carers and supporters to achieve improved health/wellbeing and/or focus on their strengths and resilience as part of their own recovery.
- Engage and empower participants, clinicians and the community to better understand the family/carer/supporter perspective.
- Build supportive and respectful relationships with all people engaged in the North East Metro Connect.
- _**What you will bring**
- Be willing to effectively, respectfully and appropriately use your lived experience as a family member, carer or supporter of someone with mental health and/or substance use challenges in your role.
- Relevant training, qualifications and/or experience in family/carer peer support. Training such as Intentional Peer Support (IPS) training, a Cert IV in Peer Support or previous paid/voluntary role in lived/living experience family/carer work is highly desirable.
- Demonstrated people management and leadership skills, and willingness to undertake further training in this area and having previous experience in Senior Peer Work positions is highly desirable.
- Experience in facilitating/co-facilitating peer support or psychoeducational groups is highly desirable.
- Demonstrated understanding of the key issues affecting families, carers and supporters of people with mental health and/or substance use challenges, and how these may intersect with physical health, gambling, neurodevelopmental conditions, intellectual and physical disabilities.
- Demonstrated understanding of trauma informed practice, recovery-oriented and strengths-based approaches and family-inclusive practice.

**Attributes**
- A genuine commitment to supporting families and carers in line with the Victorian Royal Commission Recommendations.
- An ability to work sensitively and from a trauma-informed approach with people of diverse cultures, abilities, ages, sexualities and gender identities.
- Lived or living experience as a family member, carer or supporter of someone with mental health and/or substance use challenges.
- Demonstrated behaviours consistent with North East Metro Mental Health & Wellbeing Connect values.

**North East Metro Connect Culture & Benefits**

We offer more than just a fulfilling career; we provide an environment where you can thrive in a culture of collaboration and support. Our team members share a common commitment and passion to make a positive impact, and we believe that this shared ethos creates a range of benefits for all who work with us. From opportunities for personal and professional growth to a sense of purpose and belonging, our culture promotes an environment of success and fulfilment.

**Applications close date**: Friday, 29 November 2024