Job Summary
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- Job posted on: 26th May 2024
- Melbourne > Burnley
Mind Australia is one of the country’s leading community-managed specialist mental health service providers with a range of residential, mobile outreach, centre based and online services. Mind has been supporting people experiencing mental health and wellbeing challenges to find help, hope and purpose in their lives for more than 45 years.
We provide practical and motivational support that helps people to develop the skills they need to move on, thrive and improve the quality of their lives. It’s an approach to mental health and wellbeing that looks at the whole person in the context of their daily life. Mind is committed to diversity and social inclusion.
The Lived Experience organisational function works within Mind’s support hub and drives the implementation of mental health system reforms and service innovations informed by lived expertise, intersectionality, human rights and social justice.
The work of the function is driven by Mind’s Lived Experience Strategy with a focus on lived experience led and informed leadership and culture, governance, workforce development and practice innovation and fidelity. In addition, services are delivered in accordance with Mind’s Participation and Co-design Framework, Diversity and Inclusion Framework, and Reconciliation Action Plan.
We are seeking a self-motivated, compassionate Lived Experience Service Design Lead for a permanent, Full Time (38 hours per week) opportunity at our office in the Burnley area. This is a designated lived expertise role that will lead and manage the design of new lived expertise-led projects, and initiatives that centre lived expertise at organisation-wide and service levels.
You will work as part of the Lived Experience Design and Development team, and bring specialist knowledge and practical skills in service design, co-production, and participatory design methodologies to support innovation and strategic growth of lived expertise-led services and approaches. The role will involve leading and managing design projects, consultation, and building organisational capability for lived expertise-led service design.
This national role requires the ability to form connections and build strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders to enable authentic and inclusive engagement by people with relevant lived experience, centring those who are most impacted.
o obtain a position description and apply online click Apply Now to visit Mind Careers - reference number 495090. Please contact the person below for more information.
Carolynne White, Senior Manager, Lived Experience Design and Development
The successful applicant is required to complete comprehensive reference and background checking prior to employment, including a Working with Children Check, NDIS Workers Screening Check and the ability to obtain vaccinations against COVID-19.