Consumer Academic Coordinator

**Job no**: 0053767
**Location**:Parkville
**Role type**:Part-time (0.6 FTE); Continuing Research Contingent
**Faculty**:Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences
**Department/School**:School of Health Sciences, Department of Nursing
**Salary**:Academic B - $119,231 - $141,581 p.a. plus 17% super
- Provide leadership in consumer perspective and expertise activities in the Centre for Mental Health Nursing
- Salary packaging, subsidised health and wellbeing services, fitness and cultural clubs, Myki discounts, and a 25% discount on graduate courses to our staff and their immediate families

**About the Role**
Located within the Centre for Mental Health Nursing (CentreMHN) in the Department of Nursing, School of Health Sciences at the University of Melbourne, this position will lead the Consumer Academic program to ensure the successful delivery of consumer perspective teaching, evaluation research and consultancies and provide consumer perspective leadership on the wider CentreMHN workplan and initiatives. This position will need to be able to coordinate a diverse team, bringing them together to produce the best outcomes.

Your responsibilities will include:

- Leading and coordinating diverse teams of professionals working on projects
- Managing health services research project from design to reporting
- Contributing to the development of the consumer perspective discipline and development of teaching and learning activities

**Who We Are Looking For**

You will ideally have at least three years of experience in one or more areas of consumer perspective work, such as mental health peer support practice, consumer consultancy, consumer advocacy, consumer teaching, or consumer research. Additionally, experience and skills in project management, including ensuring timely outputs, written reports, and supervising the work of others, are essential.

You will also have:

- Lived Expertise in the form of personal experience; deep discipline knowledge informed by consumer led research and teachings as well as collective knowledge of universal lived experiences
- Demonstrated critical/reflective thinking and writing skills, including an awareness of one’s own beliefs and recognising consumers’ multiple ways of understanding experiences
- Knowledge of and experience working in interdisciplinary teams, using co-production

For further information regarding responsibilities and requirements, please refer to the attached PD.

**Please note: Visa sponsorship is not available for this position**. This role requires current valid work rights for Australia.

**Your New Team - Department of Nursing**

Since 1999 the Centre for Mental Health Nursing has been a government funded academic centre within Nursing at the University of Melbourne. It exists to support and develop the Victorian mental health nursing workforce. The CentreMHN achieves this aim through collaborations with the Chief Mental Health Nurse and her office, mental health nurses in the sector, consumer academics and other academics in and beyond this University.

**What We Offer You**
In addition, we offer the opportunity to be part of a vibrant community and enjoy a range of benefits, including generous leave provisions, salary packaging, health and well-being services and discounts on graduate courses. For more information, check out our benefits page

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**Advertised**: 30 Aug 2024 12:05 AM AUS Eastern Standard Time

**Applications close**: 15