Team Leader Lived Experience. Permanent Full Time - Adelaide

Almost half of Australian adults will experience a mental health illness at some point in their life. You can make a meaningful difference to the Australian community by joining the Life Without Barriers team. Our mental health teams provide client-led, recovery-orientated mental health support, creating positive change in such a vital industry.

Life Without Barriers is a leading social purpose organisation of 8,000 employees working in more than 500 communities across Australia. We support children, young people and families, people with disability, older people, and people with mental illness. We work with people who are homeless and refugees and asylum seekers. Join a community of people dedicated to breaking down barriers.  

We want to employ people who reflect the diversity of our clients to ensure we can support each client's individual needs and wants. We encourage people of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander background and people with disability to apply.

About the Role
We are looking for an experienced Team Leader - Lived Experience, for our Mental Health team. The purpose of the Team Leader Lived Experience position is to demonstrate through a Lived Experience (LEx) lens/perspective, organisational and leadership skills in the coordination of services to assist our service users. The Team Leader is focused upon ensuring that the individual needs of service users are met, whilst maintaining an efficient and safe working environment for staff.  

We are looking for someone with strong experience in the Mental Health sector with a lived experience (LEx) of personal mental distress and a rich understanding of personal processes of recovery.  The Team Leader will be willing to purposefully use personal story to help others further their own understanding of recovery and support the LEx workforce.  The position will provide supervision and support to a team of Peer Support and Community Rehabilitation Support Workers.

The Team Leader - Lived Experience is a permanent, full time position, with flexibility to work on a hybrid office/home model.

Key Responsibilities

• Advocate for service user voice and LEx in the development of the service and support of the LEx workforce.
• Coordinate and manage daily operations of the relevant programs.
• Provide services in accordance with funding agency standards and agreements.
• Demonstrate recognition that intersectionality features prominently within the LEx workforce and encourage, nurture and support diversity.
• Demonstrate willingness to be vulnerable and public to use emotional understanding and knowing as key to the work role.
• Keep Carer lens/perspective when promoting healing and recovery.

Skills & Experience

• Relevant Mental Health, Social, Community Services qualification or equivalent
• Demonstrated a lived experience (LEx) of personal mental distress and an understanding of personal processes of recovery
• Demonstrated experience of working in a leadership/management role in a human services organisation.
• An understanding of the wider LEx movement and concepts including LEx-led research/training.
• Strong coordination, leadership and peer support skills.

Benefits

• Meaningful work opportunity at one of Australia's largest and leading Social Purpose Organisations
• Partner and collaborate with industry leaders across Mental Health and grow your skillset
• Competitive remuneration
• Salary Packaging Benefits and Car Leasing options through Maxxia
• Monthly Rostered Day Off (RDO)
• Access to an extensive suite Employee Assistance Program

To be considered for and appointed to a position at Life Without Barriers, you must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 with a minimum of two (2) doses or hold a valid medical exemption certificate, in accordance with Life Without Barriers Employee COVID-19 Vaccination Policy. You will be required to provide evidence of your vaccination status during the recruitment process.

Successful candidates will be required to clear probity checks including National Criminal History Record Check and Working with Children Check (where relevant to the role).

How to Apply

Include your resume and covering letter in one document, click ‘Apply’ and follow the prompts. For any enquiries including persons with disability that require adjustments, contact lisa.hurd@lwb.org.au

Applications will be reviewed as they are received and will close midnight Sunday 25th February 2024.