Mental Health Support Leader Lived Experience. Maximum Term Part Time - Bathurst

About the Organisation
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

Leading a new team, this is an opportunity for an experience Mental Health Team Leader with Lived Experience to join our voluntary subacute inpatient care and intervention program based in Bathurst (attached to the Bathurst Hospital). You will promote recovery and positive change of people with mental illness on evidence based best practice. Two year maximum term part time (three days per week) contract where you will lead a new team to deliver high quality, client-centred supports to people with mental health issues.

Key Responsibilities

• Advocate for clients and Lived Experience (Lex) in the development of the service and support of the LEx workforce
• Coordinate and manage daily operations of the program
• Provide supervision and support to your team
• Work together with the individual, their family, carers, key supports and community partners to establish a dynamic, person-centrered approach informed by principles of recovery
• Contribute towards and implement a LEx Practice Framework 
• Provide services in accordance with funding agency standards and agreements
• Implement high quality care plans or Individual Plan
• Coordinate rostering and timesheet requirements
• Consistently embody LEx values based on sharing experiences, modelling hope, empowerment, justice, full citizenship and mutuality

 Skills & Experience

• Demonstrated lived experience (LEx) of personal mental health issues and a rich understanding of personal processes of recovery
• Be willing to purposefully use personal story to help others further their own understanding of recovery and support the LEx workforce
• Relevant Mental Health, Social, Community Services qualification
• An unrestricted Australian Driver’s Licence and access to reliable motor vehicle including insurance
• Demonstrated experience of working in a leadership position in a human services organisation
• Demonstrated experience in working with individuals, families and/or groups from a strength-based culturally appropriate
• perspective
• Demonstrated commitment to the values of dignity, respect, inclusion empowerment, confidentiality and strength-based practice
• Current First Aid and CPR Certificate

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 (paid by us).

Benefits

• Access to an extensive suite Employee Assistance Program
• Meaningful work opportunity at one of Australia's largest and leading Social Purpose Organisations
• Partner and collaborate with industry leaders across Mental Health
• Lead a brand new team

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 Mikaella Latimore via recruitment@lwb.org.au
  
Applications close midnight 20 March.