Team Leader - Lived Experience Active
Ballarat Central, VIC, AU, 3350
$116, 579 - $119,641 per annum | Team Leader – Lived & Living Experience Workforce (Consumer)
Permanent Full time | 40 hours per week including a monthly ADO
About the Role
Lead and support the Lived & Living Experience Workforce (LLEW) within Grampians Mental Health & Wellbeing Services. This role combines operational leadership, workforce development, and advocacy to strengthen lived experience perspectives across service delivery, co-design, and continuous improvement.
You will work closely with clinical leaders and multidisciplinary teams to build an inclusive, reflective, and high-performing workforce. The role also supports workforce sustainability through supervision, capability development, and fostering meaningful consumer engagement across services.
Key Responsibilities
• Lead and support the Lived Experience Workforce
• Manage staffing, workflow, and service priorities
• Provide supervision and annual performance reviews
• Contribute to co-design and service improvement work
• Support recruitment and workforce capability growth
• Promote safe, high-quality, consumer-focused care
Skills & Experience
• Significant lived experience of tertiary mental health care
• Leadership experience within a lived experience workforce
• Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills
• Knowledge of co-design and contemporary mental health practice
• Current Driver’s Licence, WWCC, and Police Check required
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Culture & Benefits
At Grampians Health, we recognise our staff are our greatest asset. We are committed to providing a safe and healthy environment for our staff, patients, residents, visitors, volunteers and contractors at all sites.
- Flexible work arrangements and purchase leave opportunities
- Salary packaging for living expenses such as rent/mortgage plus meals, entertainment & holidays
- Access to Fitness Passport membership
- Staff rewards and recognition programs
Interested?
Click APPLY or if you wish to discuss the role prior to applying, contact Camille Jeffrey, Director Lived and Living Experience on 0430 125 899 for a confidential discussion.
We're actively seeking candidates for this role and will review applications as they are submitted. Applications will close when the position is filled.
If you are currently employed at Grampians Health, please sign in through the 'Employee Login' via the external Careers Page or access the Careers Page via the Intranet
About Grampians Health
Grampians Health provides healthcare to a large region at our campuses based in Ballarat, Dimboola, Edenhope, Horsham and Stawell.
Our mission is to deliver sustainable healthcare tailored to evolving community and workforce needs. We strive to enhance services and careers, providing quality healthcare to rural and regional communities. Joining Grampians Health means being part of a diverse team, with a variety of career opportunities in acute, maternity, mental health, allied health, aged care and support services.
Ballarat Region
Ballarat is the largest centre in Western Victoria and the state’s fastest growing inland city. Uniquely located within easy access to Melbourne, Ballarat has some of Australia’s most significant heritage buildings and natural landscapes. To learn more about Ballarat click here - Visit Ballarat
Diversity and Inclusion
All appointments are subject to a satisfactory police records check, immunisation clearance and Working with Children check and/or NDIS Worker Screening Check. All employees must be willing and able to wear Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) when required, which at a minimum is a surgical mask. Additional PPE requirements are role dependent.
Grampians Health is a child safe organisation, committed to the safety and wellbeing of all children and young people. Grampians Health is committed to providing a diverse and inclusive workforce. We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with disability, people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, mature age workers and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer (or questioning), intersex and asexual LGBTQIA+.
