Position details Applications close: Sunday 20 October, 2024 11:55 PM AEST Award/Classification: Health and Human Services (Tasmanian State Service) Award, General Stream, Band 4 Employment type: Full Time Region: North Location: LGH Charles Street, Launceston Job description: The Department of Health is seeking applications for a permanent full-time Lived Experience Workforce Lead to join the Northside team, part of the Community, Mental Health & Wellbeing branch, based at Launceston General Hospital in Northern Tasmania. The Lived Experience Workforce Lead will guide the development and embedding of the Lived Experience Workforce (LEW) in alignment with state and national policy frameworks and relevant LEW operational plans within Tasmania's public mental health services at a regional level, to ensure a socially and psychologically safe environment for LEW employees. The LEW Lead will ensure the provision of a supported, skilled, and effective Lived Experience Workforce through the delivery of discipline-specific practice supervision, coaching, and mentoring to the respective region's consumer and family/carer peer workers and the embedding of appropriate support and training strategies. The LEW Lead will uphold and promote the Lived Experience principles and values, the principles of co-design and co-production to encourage a recovery-focused, person-centred, and strengths-based approach to all aspects of work whilst ensuring inclusive, equitable, and sustainable consumer and family/carer participation and engagement. For more information, please contact: Andrew CameronPosition: Director of Nursing - Mental Health Services (N/NW)Phone: E-mail: Important information: The email account you provide when submitting job applications will be used in correspondence to you. It is important that this is kept up to date and monitored regularly. The Department of Health values workforce diversity and recognises the value each person offers which is shaped by their unique characteristics, background, experiences, knowledge, skills, values and perspectives. The core purpose guiding the way in which we work across the Department of Health is to CARE for the health and wellbeing of all in Tasmania through our Values of Compassion, Accountability, Respect and Excellence. We are united by our shared purpose and model our CARE Values through our interactions with one another, our patients, our clients and the Tasmanian community. #J-18808-Ljbffr