• Competitive salary package up to $131,447 per annum
• Temporary for a period up to 12 months
• Part-time up to 21 hours per week (hours per week negotiable)
• Location – Central Sydney (Haymarket)
• Client Services Division

 About us

Legal Aid NSW helps people with their legal problems. We can help people with most areas criminal law, family law and every day civil law legal issues. We give legal advice, help at court and do family dispute resolution. We can do this over the telephone or at one of our 28 offices.

With You Training Project

The With You project is a training package for trauma-informed, rights-based legal services to people experiencing distress, poor mental health or suicidality. With You has designed training and an organisational toolkit in partnership with people receiving and delivering legal assistance services. It is the first national co-design project in the legal assistance sector.

Legal Aid NSW was granted Commonwealth funding, on behalf of National Legal Aid, to deliver trauma-informed, rights-based for the legal assistance sector. For more information, see https://www.nationallegalaid.org/withyou/.

Training will be freely available to Community Legal Centres, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Services, Family Violence Prevention Legal Services and Legal Aid Commissions.

About the role

The Lived Experience Project Officer will deliver training nationally to lawyers, allied professionals and legal support staff.

This role is an opportunity to contribute to systems change. You can help people experiencing distress, mental ill-health or suicidality receive trauma-informed, rights-based legal services across the country.

This is a part-time role up to 21 hours per week for a period up to 12 months. The successful applicant can negotiate to work at less than 21 hours per week.

About you

The successful candidate will have substantial experience in applying their personal lived experience of mental ill-health/and or distress to training. The candidate will have a strong understanding of trauma-informed practice and be able to adapt communication and training approaches to diverse audiences. 

We may use this recruitment to create a talent pool for similar ongoing or temporary vacancies we have over the next 18 months.

WHY YOU SHOULD JOIN LEGAL AID NSW!

We are committed to diversity and inclusion

We are committed to creating a culturally safe and genuinely inclusive organisation and workplace for everyone who works and interacts with us. We strive to be a place where people from diverse backgrounds want to work, where voices and cultures are valued and where people feel valued, welcomed, respected and heard.

We want a workforce that reflects our clients, so we can deliver a service that meets the needs of the community. We welcome applications from people with diverse backgrounds — including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with disability, the LGBTQI+ community, culturally diverse people and other diverse communities. 

We acknowledge, support and accommodate the diverse access needs of people with visible and invisible disabilities. If you need an adjustment to participate in the recruitment process, or you’d like information about what we can do to help you, please contact our team at [email protected] using the subject line: Lived Experience Project Officer – With You Training Project enquiry via EthicalJobs.

Other benefits of working with us

• You will have access to training, development and mentoring opportunities.
• We are an accredited Flex Ready certified employer and are recognised as leaders in the area of flexible work. Most of our staff work flexibly — for example, from home some of the time or in a way that helps them balance family and work life.

The essential requirements for this role

You must:

• Be willing to do a Criminal Record Check and/or Working with Children Check
• Hold Australian or NZ citizenship, Australian Permanent Residency (for ongoing vacancies) or a valid visa to work in Australia (for temporary vacancies)
• Personal/lived experience of mental ill-health and/or mental distress and ability to apply this when delivering training.
• Demonstrated commitment to mental health recovery and social and emotional wellbeing philosophy, and knowledge of trauma-informed principles.
• Demonstrated high level communication and interpersonal skills. 

Key Knowledge and Experience 

• Understanding of the legal assistance sector, including lived experience of legal services.
• Certificate IV in Workplace Training and Assessment (TAE40110 or TAE40116).
• Certificate IV in Mental Health or Certificate IV in Mental Health Peer Work.
• Demonstrated experience in development and review of training materials for face to face and online training.
• Experience with Articulate 360 and eLearning software.
• Willingness and ability to travel interstate. 

How to apply

You MUST submit your application online through the "Apply Now" link below. If you submit your application late or by email it will NOT be accepted.

Your application must include:

•  Your resume (no more than 5 pages)
• Cover letter (no more than 2 pages). In your cover letter, please outline your motivation for applying for this role and address the following target question:

How will you safely apply your personal lived experience of mental ill-health and/or mental distress when delivering trauma-informed training to the legal assistance sector?

Make sure your application is complete and you have answered all questions before you submit it.

Do you need help to apply?

It’s important to properly prepare before you apply for a role. Here is some other information to help you:

• If you have questions about the role, you can contact the Hiring Manager – Arna Rathgen on (02) 9213 5299 or email: [email protected] using the subject line: Lived Experience Project Officer - With You Training Project enquiry via EthicalJobs.
• If you are an Australian Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander and are thinking about applying, you can contact the Aboriginal Services Branch to arrange a confidential conversation about any questions you may have.
• The Role Description sets out the responsibilities of the role.
• The focus capabilities and key accountabilities in the role description indicate what is expected at that level. Being familiar with these will help you understand what the panel will be looking for in the successful candidate.
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