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About Northern Health:
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As an organisation we have a clear focus on how we service and partner with our community, including our strategy of helping the community stay well when at home. Our reputation of community minded, inclusive and progressive is matched to none.Â
Northern Health is located in the rapidly growing northern suburbs with projected growth the biggest in the state. With a booming, culturally rich and diverse community, and less than an hourâs drive from the CBD, Melbourneâs North is fast becoming the place to be!
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Join Northern Health in the role of Director- Lived Experience and lead our dynamic Lived Experience Team within the Mental Health Division.
We're looking for an experienced leader who can harness the power of lived experience to shape and transform mental health services in Melbourne’s north.
About Northern Health:
Northern Health is the major provider of acute, maternity, sub-acute, mental health, specialist, community and home-based services in Melbourne’s rapidly growing outer north.
Services are provided through our five main campuses:
Northern Hospital Epping, Broadmeadows Hospital, Bundoora Centre, Craigieburn Centre, and Kilmore District Hospital.
Mental Health Division:
As an organisation we have a clear focus on how we service and partner with our community, including our strategy of helping the community stay well when at home. Our reputation of community minded, inclusive and progressive is matched to none.
Northern Health is located in the rapidly growing northern suburbs with projected growth the biggest in the state. With a booming, culturally rich and diverse community, and less than an hour’s drive from the CBD, Melbourne’s North is fast becoming the place to be!
Northern Health is the third largest mental health service in Victoria Northern. Within the Mental Health Division, we pride ourselves on providing high quality mental health services to people living in the northern regions of Melbourne, and work in a collaborative way with consumers and carers based on recovery principles. We aim to provide strong clinical leadership to support all staff in the provision of professional treatment and care by our integrated community teams, inpatient, and residential services.
Mental Health Services are provided at Epping, Broadmeadows, Preston, Mill Park and Coburg.
We strongly endorse the Northern Health values of safe, kind and together.
About the Role:
You will leverage your significant management experience to provide professional leadership to a Lived Experience Workforce within the Mental Health Division and across Northern Health. Work closely with the Lived Experience Leadership, Operational Directors, Program Managers and Professional Leads within the Mental Health Division as well as Divisional Directors and Operational Directors across Northern Health.
You will ensure that the Consumer and Carer perspective is heard and that Lived Experience Services are patient centred and delivered effectively and efficiently to ensure the best clinical outcomes across the continuum of care.
To be successful in this role you will have:
- A personal lived experience of mental illness and accessing mental health services or a personal lived experience as a carer of someone who has/is experiencing mental illness and accessing mental health services (inclusive of substance use and addiction).
- Prior experience (minimum 7 years total) in a consumer/carer lived experience role in a public area mental health service or organization.
- A minimum 2-3 years in a leadership position and prior experience in people management.
- Sound understanding of public mental health, Mental Health & Wellbeing Act 2022 & the recommendations from the Royal Commission into Victoria’s Mental Health System.
- Professional development/training relevant to the consumer/carer workforce (i.e. Intentional Peer Support).
Next Steps . . .
If this opportunity sounds like the next step in your career, then we would love to hear from you. Please click on the 'Apply' button and follow the prompts.
For further details, please refer to the Position Description. Alternatively, you can contact Belinda Scott, Executive Director, Mental Health Division, Northern Health at Belinda.Scott2@nh.org.au
Applications close: Sunday 16 March 2025 .
Shortlisting will commence immediately for this vacancy. If an appropriate candidate is sourced, the advertising may close early, thus we advise you to apply right away.
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Why work at the Northern Health?
We offer a range of benefits to support and reward staff both personally and professionally, which includes:
- Health and Wellbeing programs, including our âThriveâ program
- Flexibility in the workplace and extra leave options and support
- An inclusive and culturally safe space
- State of the art facilities and campus partnerships
- A commitment to ongoing professional development through our âLearning Labsâ
- Access to salary packaging, EAP and our online library
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For a glimpse of life at NH, click here.
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Work with us! Northern Health is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to attracting and retaining a diverse workforce which reflects the community we serve. Applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, as well as applicants who are LGBTIQ+, who have different abilities, or are from culturally and Linguistically Diverse Backgrounds are encouraged.
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All employees of Northern Health must comply with the health serviceâs Staff Health / Workforce Immunisation procedure (as amended from time to time) together with any relevant State Government and Departmental directives. This requires all employees to be vaccinated for various diseases such as, but not limited to influenza.
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