• Enjoy a role that will be varied, challenging and rewarding
• This is your chance to enhance your career with Victoria’s largest regional Health Service
• Extend your career, gain invaluable experience

Area Profile

Sitting within one of Victoria’s six regional health centres, Barwon Health serves the community of Greater Geelong and beyond. Victoria’s second largest city after Melbourne! We serve over 500,000 people through the efforts of over 8,000 staff and more than 1200 volunteers.

Enjoy the range of lifestyle choices Geelong has to offer including inner city, coastal, suburban and rural homes at affordable prices and high standard of schooling options throughout the area. You will appreciate the beautiful parks, rivers, walks and wineries.

To find out more about the Geelong region, visit our Moving to the Region page on the Barwon Health website. 

About Mental Health, Drug and Alcohol Services (MHDAS)

MHDAS provides integrated and recovery oriented mental health, drugs and alcohol assessment, treatment and community support to people of all ages within the Barwon region experiencing, or at risk of experiencing, mental health and drug & alcohol issues, and their families. Our service is internationally recognised for its innovative clinical programs and integrated models of practice that are client centred, accessible and family inclusive. 

About the Role

This is a role that combines lived experience of being a consumer of public mental health services with education expertise. The successful incumbent will facilitate the development and implementation of a pilot program for a Lived Experience cadetship at MHDAS.

About You

• Peer work experience is desirable, however your lived experience of overcoming the impact if mental illness/ distress and/ or drug and alcohol use will make you an ideal candidate for this role,
• You will be able to recognise and understand your own personal recovery process and be able to navigate the tertiary mental health system and support others to do the same.
• You will have a strong ability to prioritise workloads and build and maintain professional relationship’s with external and internal stakeholders.
• Your sound knowledge and understanding of peer support principles will allow you to bring all of your previous lived experience and understanding of the mental health system to be able to develop and implement a pilot program that leads the way to educating new cadets to become confident peer support workers.

What we offer

• Flexible working arrangements
• Professional development
• Doorstep to the Great Ocean Road, Bellarine Peninsula and the Surf Coast
• Attractive salary packaging benefits!
• Living Expenses capped at $9,010 and includes repayments on mortgages, credit cards, personal loans and rental payments
• Meal Entertainment & Accommodation capped at $2,650 and includes food and drink consumed in a social or entertainment settings and some accommodation expenditure

Diversity and Inclusion

At Barwon Health we are committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce where we value each person’s uniqueness. We embrace diverse life experiences and the perspectives of our people, whilst providing high-quality health care to all members of our community, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, religion, cultural background, disability, or sexual orientation.

At Barwon Health we are committed to providing positive employment opportunities for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and welcome employment applications from candidates of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander background.

We at Barwon Health strongly encourage people with disability and diverse backgrounds to apply for our roles.

If we can assist you with any reasonable adjustments in order to submit your application for this role, please contact the Mental Health Recruitment team via email at [email protected] using the subject line: Lived Experience Educator - Geelong enquiry via EthicalJobs noting your preferred method of communication and contact details and a member of the team will be in touch.

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Selection Criteria

• Essential: Can you please list Barwon Health's values?
• Essential: Can you please choose one of Barwon Health's values and describe a situation in the workplace where you have displayed this value?
  
• Essential: Certificate IV in Training and Assessment (or equivalent) or extensive education and training experience
  
• Essential: Lived experience of overcoming the impact of mental illness/distress and/or drug and alcohol use
  
• Essential: Lived experience of accessing or seeking to access the tertiary mental health system for mental illness/distress and/or drug and alcohol use
  
• Essential: Sound knowledge and understanding of peer support principles