Be the voice that leads to better client outcomes. Lead with purpose.

Open Minds is on an exciting journey and we’re looking for a passionate Lived Experience Lead to help guide the way. This newly created senior role marks our first designated leadership position for someone with a lived experience of mental health challenges. You’ll play a vital part in shaping recovery-oriented, peer-informed practice across our organisation and contribute to building a workforce culture that recognises and values strong, sustainable lived experience workforce.

Why join us

You’ll be joining a collaborative, supportive team that values different perspectives and is committed to improving mental health services. To build on our inclusive environment, we need your lived experience and expertise to help us understand and transform so that we can support people with mental health challenges through our services.

• Advocate and translate the Lived Experience value proposition.
• Partner with leadership to drive culture change and embed lived expertise across the organisation.
• Support and shape our peer workforce while contributing to inclusive service design and maintenance.
• Access salary packaging, EAP support, employee discounts, and flexible work options.
• Join a team that values professional development, balance, inclusion, and honest conversations.

About the role:

As the Lived Experience Lead, you’ll mentor lived experience staff, develop inclusive workforce practices, and help others understand the value of lived experience. You’ll report directly to the CEO of Open Minds, working with leaders across the organisation and sector to embed our Lived Experience Strategy. In this role, you’ll help build and shape a culture where lived expertise is embedded in every aspect of the organisation.

What we’re looking for:

• Personal experience of mental health challenges, recovery or as a carer of someone with mental health challenges.

• Experience working in a lived experience designated role, ideally in a senior or mentoring capacity.

• Confidence navigating organisational change and influencing senior stakeholders.

• Exceptional relationship-building and communication skills.

• A passion for educating and bringing people on the journey.

A Certificate IV in Mental Health or Mental Health Peer Work is desirable, but not essential.

How to apply:

If you’re ready to lead change and elevate the voice of lived experience, we want to hear from you. Apply now and join us in making lived experience central to how we care, lead, and grow.

Diversity is Strength. We encourage people from diverse ages, gender, identity, cultural backgrounds and experience including First nations peoples, Cultural and linguistically diverse, LGBTQIA+, lived/ peer, mental health experience, to apply for this position.

Open Minds acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of the lands on which we all work, live and play on. We pay our respects to the Elders past and present and extend that respect to all First Nations Peoples. We reflect upon the millions of footprints that are embedded into the earth from our Ancestors, the pathways that were forged, the meaning they leave behind and the continuation of the traditions through the next generations.