Lead the Lived Experience Workforce - Champion Recovery & Inclusion in Mental Health!

Drive positive change by leading and supporting a diverse peer workforce, promoting recovery-focused mental health services with compassion and innovation.

Job details

Your new role:

As the Lead for the Lived Experience Workforce within Metro South Addiction and Mental Health Services, you will play a pivotal role in fostering a positive, inclusive, and recovery-focused environment for both consumers and carers. This position offers the opportunity to lead strategic projects, provide professional supervision, and support the expansion and development of a diverse peer workforce.

• Lead and manage a geographically dispersed consumer and carer workforce with compassion, professionalism, and enthusiasm.
• Provide operational support, professional supervision, and guidance to peer workers while ensuring high-quality consumer and carer-focused services.
• Lead strategic initiatives and projects that promote social inclusion, recovery, and lived experience leadership within addiction and mental health services.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams and external stakeholders to enhance workforce development and implement quality improvement activities.

This is an identified vacancy with a genuine occupational requirement for the position to be filled by a candidate who has a personal lived/living experience of mental health and/or substance use issues, or a personal lived/living experience of caring for a person with mental health and/or substance use issues. Candidates not meeting this criteria will not be considered.

About you:

You are a dynamic and experienced leader with a strong commitment to lived experience values, recovery principles, and workforce development. You thrive in complex environments and excel at building authentic relationships across diverse teams and stakeholders.

• Proven experience managing and supporting a peer workforce, including providing trauma-informed supervision, mentoring, and education across multiple sites.
• Strong understanding of mental health and addiction legislation, policies, and frameworks, with the ability to apply these through a lived experience and recovery-oriented lens.
• Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills with demonstrated ability to engage diverse stakeholders, promote co-design, and elevate consumer and carer voices.
• Skilled in project management, digital literacy, and the use of technology to support workforce collaboration and ensure equitable access to resources.

About us:

Metro South Addiction and Mental Health Services:

Metro South Addiction and Mental Health Services provide inpatient, hospital-based and community mental health and community alcohol and drug services for all age groups across a number of campuses.

We embrace a forward looking, progressive approach and work collaboratively with all stakeholders in order to achieve expected outcomes. A clear and strong consumer and carer focus is promoted with our vision being to provide our community excellence in consumer centred, integrated care across the continuum of addiction (alcohol and drug) and mental health services.

INTEGRITY | COMPASSION | ACCOUNTABILITY | RESPECT | ENGAGEMENT | EXCELLENCE

Our values were created by employees for employees to shape our culture and inspire positive interactions in the workplace. Diversity of ideas, skills, traditions, and customs is celebrated as one of our greatest strengths. Having a workforce that reflects and understands the needs and expectations of our community is important to delivering safe, kinder, and more inclusive care.

We recognise our strength comes from the diversity of our people and so we encourage people of all genders, ethnicities, ages, abilities, languages, sexual orientation, and family responsibilities to apply.

We are Metro South Health:

We are the major public healthcare provider for Brisbane's south side, Logan, Redlands, and the Scenic Rim operating five major hospitals and a range of community, specialty, and state-wide healthcare services.

We are bold, innovative, collaborative, inspiring. We save lives, change lives, and make the world a better place. We are part of and proud of the community we serve.

We are better together.

Further information

We are committed to building inclusive cultures in the Queensland public sector that respect and promote human rights and diversity.

Applicants are encouraged to apply online. Please review the Role Description for more information on application process requirements. Agency referrals will not be accepted for this position.

Documents

Before applying for this vacancy please ensure you read the documents below.

• Application essentials - things you need to know (PDF, 691KB)
  Information Package for Applicants
  
  We are MSH - five reasons why you should join us (PDF, 978KB)
  Information Package for Applicants
  
  MS09660620 Role Description (PDF, 512KB)
  Role Description