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Salary- Full time or part time ongoing role
- Salary based on experience, range: $97,922 - $122,400 (pro rata) plus super
- Up to $15,900 in salary packaging and hybrid WFH & office model
In this role, you will contribute to the successful delivery of the Mental Health Legal Rights Service (MHLRS) model by embedding consumer leadership in design, implementation, delivery, and oversight. You will be based at Victoria Legal Aid but also work collaboratively with all three MHLRS legal service partners – including Mental Health Legal Centre and the Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service - to support diverse consumer voices and assist in strategic advocacy.
Additionally, you will establish co-design and co-production initiatives, provide advice and feedback on projects, build strong relationships with key partners and actively collaborate with the consumer workforce while participating in forums, training and seeking networking opportunities.
This role is based at our Melbourne CBD office on Wurundjeri Country
About you:
As our ideal candidate, you will possess:
- Lived experience of the mental health system and demonstrated experience of working from the consumer perspective while understanding the importance of and implementing consumer leadership in service delivery and improvement of human rights and self-determination within oppressive practices.
- Demonstrated experience working in co-design and co-production while understanding and committing to these concepts and principles in the context of legal services.
- Effective collaboration – builds and maintains relationships of trust and brings people together for effective discussion and collaboration.
- Communication – able to communicate effectively and appropriately, both internally and externally to legal services while demonstrating sensitivity and tact in providing advice and feedback in a constructive way that enables change and improvement.
The Mental Health Legal Rights Service is a new legal service model co-designed with consumers and stakeholders that will be implemented across VLA, Mental Health Legal Centre and Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service. The service will provide legal assistance to consumers subject to compulsory mental health treatment, in particular in relation to their Mental Health Tribunal hearings. It is a coordinated collaborative consumer-centred model that will increase access to timely legal assistance, protect consumer rights, and advocate for a more consumer-centred and human-rights focused mental health system.
Don't meet every requirement? At VLA, we understand that your work and life experiences can be just as valuable. If you're excited about this role but your CV doesn't align perfectly with our job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or one of our many other opportunities.
About Victoria Legal Aid:
We provide legal representation to those who need it most. With over 1000 staff employed in 15 offices across Victoria, we help people with their legal problems by providing information, advice and education with a focus on the prevention and early resolution of legal problems.
Our clients come from all walks of life and so do we. We hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds and foster a work culture that's inclusive as well as diverse. Your unique ideas and perspectives are valued so that we best represent the people we serve.
Employee benefits:
- Focus on work-life balance including flexible working arrangements
- Hybrid work from home & office model
- Training and professional development opportunities
- Excellent
(and salary package the cost) * Supportive team environment in modern offices (including free gym and end-of-trip facilities at our CBD office)
How to apply:
To be considered for this role, please submit a current resume and completed candidate application form (listed within the file attachments).
If you require adjustment to the recruitment and selection process or need an alternative format to any of the application material, please don't hesitate to get in touch with .
For further information review the attached position description or contact Catherine Leslie on (03) 9280 3706 or catherine.leslie@vla.vic.gov.au.
No agency applications will be accepted.
Applications close by 11.59pm on Monday 29 January 2024.
Other relevant information:
It is a requirement that staff attend for office-based days at their primary work location. In line with this requirement, interstate applications will be considered only where the candidate is able and willing to relocate to Victoria, unless part of a border community.
VLA is committed to putting the safety and wellbeing of children first.
