Imha Advocate

**Overview**:
**Work type**:Ongoing - full time or part time

**Salary**:$86,436 - $101,868

**Grade**:WVR 3.2 - 32AO5C

**Occupation**: Community Services

**Location**: Shepparton

**Reference**: VG/VLA/LPCJLH/1863842

Join the IMHA team in a role where you will educate and empower people to participate in decisions about their treatment and care.
- ** Part time (0.8 FTE) or full time ongoing position**:

- **Salary range: $86,436 - $101,868 (pro rata) plus super plus salary packaging**:

- **Up to $15,900 in salary packaging and hybrid WFH & office model**

**About the role**
You will provide services to people at risk of or on compulsory treatment orders, assist people to understand and exercise their rights and to enable them to participate in decisions about their treatment, care, and recovery including coaching for self-advocacy and referrals.

Your will be responsible for:

- Responding to enquiries from users of the program, mental health organisations and services including hospitals, peer support workers, social workers, lawyers, caseworkers and other advocates.
- This role is based at our Shepparton office on Yorta Yorta country._

**About you**
- Strong communication and negotiation skills, with an ability to quickly build trust and rapport with a diverse range of consumers and internal and external stakeholders.
- A deep understanding of the challenges impacting Victorians when accessing mental health support services, and an ability to ‘stand up' on behalf of consumers.
- A flexible, patient and supportive approach while remaining transparent. You will be a creative problem solver.

**About IMHA**:
Our Independent Mental Health Advocacy (IMHA) team is a non-legal advocacy program that is staffed and led by professionals with mental health consumer experience and/or backgrounds in community development, consumer advocacy, mental health advocacy, community sector advocacy, social work, mental health service provision or other similar fields.

**About Victoria Legal Aid**
We provide legal representation to those who need it most. With over 1400 staff employed in 16 offices across Victoria, we help people with their legal problems by providing information, advice and education with a focus on the prevention and early resolution of legal problems.

Our clients come from all walks of life and so do we. We hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds and foster a work culture that's inclusive as well as diverse. Your unique ideas and perspectives are valued so that we best represent the people we serve.

**Employee benefits**
- Focus on work-life balance including flexible working arrangements
- Hybrid work from home & office model
- Training and professional development opportunities
- Excellent salary packaging options including General Expenses up to $15,900, Meals & Entertainment up to $2,650 and Novated Leasing
- Access to discounted Private Health Insurance
- Relocation allowance if relocating for this role

**How to apply**

**Applications close by 11.59pm on Sunday 15 June 2025.**

**Other relevant information**

VLA is committed to putting the safety and wellbeing of children first.

Applications close Sunday 15 June 2025 at 11.59PM

Posted 30 May 2025