Job Summary
- Up to $131.447 Pro-rata
- Applications close:
- Job posted on: 28th Mar 2024
- Sydney > Haymarket
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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?
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