• Job Title: Policy Officer
• Location: MHLET (Hobart)
• Classification/Salary: SCHADS, Level 5
• Employment Status: 0.6 Full Time Equivalent (FTE)(or as negotiated)
• Reports to: Chief Executive Officer
• Term: Fixed term contract to 30 August 2027

About the Position

This is a fixed term 0.6 FTE position to develop and implement MHLET’s advocacy workplan and policy initiatives. This role has a specific focus on mental health reform in Tasmania. The roles will require an understanding of policy and activities of the government and community sector in the mental health space.

The Policy Officer will work closely with the CEO and MHLET’s consumer representatives and members providing advice and support on issues pertaining to their work. The position will also assist with the coordination of projects that contribute to the achievement of co-design of mental health services.

The position is based in MHLET’s Hobart office, with occasional travel to North and North West Tasmania.

The position is a fixed term contract position available from the date of employment until 30 August 2027.

MHLET is an organisation managed and governed by people with lived experience of mental ill-health and psychosocial disability. Lived experience of mental ill-health and/or psychosocial disability is an essential selection criterion for this position.

First Nations people; culturally and linguistically diverse people; LGBTIQA+ people; and people with intersecting disabilities are strongly encouraged to apply.

Flexible working arrangements may be negotiated.

About MHLET

Mental Health Lived Experience Tasmania Inc. (‘MHLET’) is Tasmania’s lead organisation for people with a personal lived experience of mental ill-health and psychosocial disability.

MHLET is a member-based, independent, not-for-profit organisation that works with mental health consumers, people with psychosocial disability, the state mental health system, mental health service providers, disability service providers and the community to ensure that the voice of lived experience is heard in the planning and delivery of Tasmanian mental health services and psychosocial disability services.

MHLET and its members also work to counter marginalisation, discrimination, stigma and the sense of profound isolation that is often experienced by people living with mental ill-health and psychosocial disability.

People who work at MHLET have personal lived experience of mental ill-health and recovery. This enables deep understanding of the various needs and perspectives of mental health consumers and people with psychosocial disability, while recognising that everyone’s lived experience is unique.

Flexible working arrangements may be negotiated.

A position description is attached.