Job Title: Team Lead (Lived Expertise)
About Mind Australia Limited
Mind Australia is one of Australia's largest providers of community-managed psychosocial services, supporting people experiencing mental health and wellbeing challenges to find help, hope and purpose in their lives. With over 45 years of experience and employing over 1,300 staff around Australia, Mind is a leading employer of people with lived experience of mental health challenges.
About the Role
The Adult and Older Adult Mental Health and Wellbeing services, otherwise known as 'Locals', act as a front door to the mental health service system and provides a continuum of care and support including clinical interventions, wellbeing supports, and therapeutic support through an integrated mental health and alcohol and other drug framework approach.
Key Responsibilities
* Provide discipline-specific and practice supervision/line management to staff who are providing direct support to service users and facilitate reflective practice.
* Utilise your Lived Expertise to promote an inclusive, affirming and destigmatising culture that values lived experience and the active inclusion of service users, carers, and families in the work we do.
* Support the development of a consistent narrative on the value of Lived Experience to the service across quality, values and service outcomes.
* Positively influence and contribute to a service and team culture that focuses on relational practice, meeting people where they are at.
* Support staff to develop skills to facilitate family, carer and supporter meetings, run family, carer and supporter events and develop family and/or parenting recovery goals.
Requirements
* Completion of Intentional Peer Support Core and/or Advanced training is required.
* Tertiary qualifications in Mental Health, Peer Work, Alcohol and Other Drugs (AOD) or other health related field as designated by Mind are also desirable but not required.
* Experience as a peer worker or holding a designated lived experience role.
* Experience in leadership and capability to coach, mentor and develop a team to achieve the provision of service that best supports the communities needs.
* Experience in Community Services, AOD, Mental Health, Disability, Social Welfare, Housing, Healthcare or Government sectors.
Benefits
* Salary packaging up to $15,899 p.a.
* Option to access Meal and Entertainment allowance up to $2,650 p.a.
* Generous leave entitlements including 8 weeks paid parental leave, 17.5% annual leave loading, and Monthly Accumulated Day off (Full time employees).
* Access to our Employee Assistance Program (EAP), provided by Converge International, for you and your immediate family members.
* Fitness Passport - Access to our corporate health and fitness program, providing you and family with access to a wide choice of fitness facilities.
* Professional development through regular Practice Development sessions and coaching with your supervisor.