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Consumer Workforce Liaison

Victorian Mental Illness Awareness Council

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This exciting position has been created at VMIAC to assist DHHS Mental Health Division to implement the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Mental Health regarding the Consumer Lived Experience Workforce. Both the Interim and the Final Reports recommended expanding and strengthening the consumer lived experience workforce through recruitment, training, supporting consumers and peer workers.

The position will enable consumer perspectives to support and guide workforce initiatives associated with Commission recommendations and ensure that the consumer perspective is heard in the new workforce developments.

MHRV is funding one position at each of VIMIAC and TANDEM for a workforce liaison. The workforce liaison will increase the capacity and capability of VMIAC to engage with the reform agenda and programs of work related to workforce strategy, planning and structure.

Objectives

The objective of funding two positions, one at each of the peak bodies, is to:

  • Enable consumer and carer perspectives to support and guide workforce initiatives associated with Royal Commission recommendations
  • Strengthen relationships between the Mental Health Division with peak bodies to support workforce reform initiatives from the Royal Commissions interim and final reports.
  • Provide capability and capacity to VMIAC to support the department to work collaboratively with people with lived experience.

Role Purpose

The VMIAC Consumer Workforce Liaison will support and partner with the Mental Health Division on a number of activities, including (but not limited to):

  • Commissioning processes such as specification development and procurement
  • Governance and project control groups and leadership on behalf of the sector
  • Liaison with consumer and family-carer stakeholders
  • Support and build co-design opportunities with the lived experience consumer workforces.
  • Communicate with the sector for opportunities for co-design, collaboration and consultation.

The work plan will include activities focused around supporting the work plans for implementation of:

  • Recommendation 6 from the Commission Interim report
  • Recommendations 57-59 from the Commission final report.

THIS IS A LIVED EXPERIENCE CONSUMER POSITION.

Applicants must have lived experience of mental health issues or emotional distress and of being a consumer of mental health services, as well as an understanding of the consumer movement and its underlying principles. Applicants must consider themselves to be work read.

  • The position is for two years
  • This is a SCHADS Level 6 pay point 1 position plus superannuation at 0.8 FTE
  • Salary Packaging options available
  • A position description is attached

Applicants are encouraged to contact Bryony Wilson 0450 527 751 for further information.

A position description is attached.

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