Title:  Team Leader - Lived Experience- Access & Rehab

Team Leader - Lived Experience Workforce 

• Part Time 0.8 EFT | 30 hours a week | Experience work-life balance    

• Lived Experience Worker Level 4 Year 1-4 (MP40-43) | Access/Rehab centre

• Super + salary packaging | Experience work-life balance 

• Location across Box Hill and Ringwood | Close to cafes, public transport and shops 

Eastern Health  

Eastern Health is one of Melbourne’s largest public health services. We provide a range of emergency, surgical, medical and general healthcare services, including maternity, palliative care, mental health, drug and alcohol, residential care, community health and state-wide specialist services to people and communities that are diverse in culture, age, socio-economic status, population and healthcare needs.  

About the role 

Our Lived Experience Workforce (LEW) is a non-clinical team that operates across various clinical settings, including Crisis Assessment Treatment Teams, Acute Inpatient Units, Emergency Departments, Community Teams, and Rehabilitation Services within our Mental Health & Wellbeing Program.   

Supported by the Lived Experience Leadership team, the Lived Experience Team Leader, will initiate, lead, and support daily operations of the Lived Experience peer workforce team in the following areas. 

• Emergency Departments  

• Crisis Assessment Treatment Teams 

• Rehabilitation Services 

This role involves close collaboration with service leaders, clinicians, and lived experience staff to promote a multidisciplinary team approach that is inclusive of lived experience peer support and responsive to the needs and perspectives of consumers and their family carers.  

About you 

To be successful in this role you will possess: 

• Experience working as a member of a Lived Experience Workforce 

• Substantial knowledge and expertise in mental health consumer/carer peer support in mental health services.   

• Completion of Intentional Peer Support (IPS) training.  

• Experience providing lived experience perspective in various settings and activities, including active participation of committees, working groups and projects, and working with a range of stakeholders  

• Highly developed interpersonal and communication skills and demonstrated ability to initiate, problem solve, negotiate and communicate with staff, consumers, carers and other service users.   

• Ability to determine workload priorities, coordinate tasks and work to timelines.   

• Sound work practice and planning skills, the ability to manage time and workforce demands by balancing the needs of the service and the service user.  

• Ability to balance both services, lived experience workforce and consumer and supporter needs.   

Please refer to the attached position description for further details of the role.  

Healthcare workers are strongly recommended to follow COVID vaccination recommendations provided in the Australian Immunisation handbook (based on ATAGI advice). Seasonal vaccination against influenza is a mandatory requirement of this role and an offer is conditional on this being up to date prior to employment. 

What we offer  

Eastern Health offers a variety of fantastic Employee Benefits, view the extensive range here!  

• Diverse and engaging career opportunities  

• Friendly & supportive team  

• Flexible working hours  

• Salary packaging options  

• Career progression in our teaching hospitals  

Next Steps 

Apply online if you feel we are a good match, you have the skills and qualities to make a difference and are eligible to work in Australia. 

We review all applications when we receive them, and we notify unsuccessful candidates. 

If you are shortlisted, we will be in touch to arrange an interview, and you must complete a National Police Check (which we will pay for). We will notify unsuccessful candidates. 

Good to know: 

• We are an equal opportunity employer and actively promote equality for people of all races, ethnicities, gender identities, sexual orientations, and for people living with disability – within the communities we serve and our Eastern Health team. 

• We provide a culturally safe and welcoming environment for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander employees. 

• As a child-safe organisation, we ensure child safety and wellbeing is embedded in our everyday culture. 

• Vaccination and screening for immunity to vaccine-preventable disease is a mandatory requirement of this role. 

• Advertising may end before the closing date. 

• We do not accept recruitment agency application 

If you are a current Eastern Health employee, please ensure you log in with your internal Eastern Health account to apply for this or other roles 

Please click here for the Position Description

Contact Person: Nina Cook

Contact Number: 03 9094 7643

Contact Email: nina.cook@easternhealth.org.au

Job Posting End Date: 26/11/2025

Need help submitting your application?

Just contact the Hiring Manager in the advertisement or call the Talent Acquisition Team on (03) 9955 7555 (Option 1) | Medical Workforce Unit on (03) 9895 3469. [TA for Non Medical roles, MWU for Medical roles]

Click Here for the Candidate Guide also for help in our recruitment process!

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