• Extensive investment in facilities and people supporting our service expansion
• Community Services is expanding into the regional Victoria
• A culture where people care

A career in the forensic mental health sector is diverse, challenging and rewarding. A career at Forensicare will be like no other. If you’re passionate about supporting people in their mental health recovery, Forensicare is where you need to be. You will be a part of a caring and supportive team, making a real difference to people living with the dual stigma of mental illness and offending. We approach our work with curiosity and a commitment to understanding the unique needs of our consumers and carers. Working across community, hospital and prison settings, you can learn, apply your specialist skills and advance in your profession. Together, we can contribute to a more connected, compassionate mental health and criminal justice system.

Job location

This position is located at the Community Forensic Mental Health Service (CFMHS) in Clifton Hill, 15 minutes from Melbourne’s city centre. Our Lived experience team are an integral part of implementing recovery approaches for mental health consumers and carers. Lived experience workers bring expertise developed from their own mental health experiences.

About the Role:

The Lived Experience Lead will provide expert peer support across their directorate at and will provide advice and support about peer work across Forensicare’s other work environments. The Lived Experience Lead will work with the Lived Experience Team, to ensure an integrated and collaborative approach to lived experience work at Forensicare.

Duties:

• Establishing purposeful relationships with consumers, to support them in their recovery planning and recovery journey.

• Working with others to develop and refine the model of peer work.

• Leading and supervising newer peer workers and consumer consultants and providing day-to-day management of, and accountability for, their roles and the quality of their work.

• Establishing and overseeing work performance standards for new consumer focused Lived Experience Staff.

• Participating in meetings to present consumer perspectives and advocate for their needs.

About You:

• Supervisory and team leadership skills to lead and support a team which comprises of peer workers and consumers consultants

• Demonstrated experience in a peer work role or similar.

• Written and verbal communication skills to articulate the peer work model, and engage effectively with consumers, families and carers, clinicians, staff, and management.

• Understanding of, and commitment to, the lived experience and consumer movement, human rights, the recovery model, and person-centred practice.

What you need:

• A personal lived experience of being a mental health consumer or carer of a mental health consumer

*Please Note - Applications will be reviewed and interviewed as they are received. Advertising may close earlier than indicated.

A culture where people matter.

• Excellent supervision and investment in the skill development of all our team members.
• Well defined career pathways existing across our Directorates with multi-disciplined Teams.
• Salary Packaging Options available – Mortgage, Rent, Car, Expenses
• A leading, multi-faceted approach to safety, with unparalleled strategic, practical, individualised and team-based supports to minimise risks and fear and maximise safety and security, underpinned by our workplace health and safety strategy.
• Celebration and reward for good performance, through employee recognition.
• Access to an employee assistance program – an external, confidential, self-referral employee wellbeing program, for personal or work-related matters.
• A mental health and wellbeing program providing psychological, peer support and critical incidence response programs.

Eligibility

• Influenza and Immunisation Evidence
• This position is subject to a Police Check

Forensicare is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to attracting and developing a diverse workforce which reflects the community we serve. We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people who identify as LGBTQI, people with a lived experience of disability, as well as people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds. Forensicare promotes our guiding principles of RESPONSIVENESS, INTEGRITY, IMPARTIALITY, ACCOUNTABILITY, RESPECT, LEADERSHIP, HUMAN RIGHTS; and promotes behaviours that are consistent with these values at all times. Forensicare is an equal opportunity employer and offers a smoke free environment.