- Base salary + salary packaging + super + 5 weeks annual leave

Austin Health is the major provider of tertiary health services, health qualified education and research across three campuses in the north-east of Melbourne and statewide. We have a highly engaged, diverse and collaborative workforce that is unified by our goal to help people live healthy and fulfilled lives.

About the Mental Health Division

The division provides care and services through a comprehensive range of teams, to meet the needs of mental health consumers and carers throughout Victoria. All mental health services work within a clinical framework that promotes recovery-oriented practice and supported decision making. This approach to client wellbeing builds on the strengths of the individual working in partnership with their treating team. It encompasses the principles of self- determination and individualised treatment and care.

About the role

The Family Carer Lived & Living Experience Consultant is a systems level Lived & Living Experience (LLE) role within the Adult and Older Adult Mental Health Service (AOAMHS). The role works in partnership with the Service Improvement and Development Manager, Team Leaders, Program Managers, Consumer Consultant and lived experience leadership to strengthen family, carer and supporter engagement and participation through co-designed practices across AOAMHS

A regular day will see you:

- Translate engagement and participation strategies into practical implementation across the AOAMHS
- Promote Lived and living experience perspective in planning, redesign, quality improvement and education
- Engage with families and carers and supporters to capture feedback and support continuous service improvement

About you

You will be someone with excellent communication, interpersonal and collaboration skills, who takes a highly compassionate approach to their work.





You will bring with you:

- Previous experience in a designated Lived and Living experience Workforce role, peer work, carer participation role or consumer/carer advisory role.
- Cert IV in Mental Health Peer Work, Intentional Peer Support or equivalent training is desirable

Working at Austin Health means enjoying a strong sense of purpose, engaging in meaningful work every day. Our people also receive a variety of rewarding benefits, including:

- Greater take-home pay through generous salary packaging, for living expenses, meals, and holiday accommodation.
- A suite of wellness initiatives designed to support you, including discounted fitness memberships and special offers on health insurance, and a comprehensive wellbeing program.
- Onsite childcare at Austin Hospital, easy access via public transport and car parking options.
- Mentoring and career development opportunities.

Work with us!

We are committed to cultural safety and health equity for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander People. We celebrate, value, and include people of all backgrounds, genders, identities, cultures, bodies, and abilities. We welcome and support applications from talented people identifying as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander, people with disability, neurodiverse people, LGBTQIA+ and people of all ages and cultures.

All appointments are made subject to a satisfactory National Police Check and if required, a Working With Children Check. Austin Health is a child safe organisation, committed to upholding the rights, safety, and wellbeing of children and young people in line with Child Safe Standards. If you require any reasonable adjustments to the recruitment process, you are welcome to reach out to the hiring manager: Julie Hume, Divisional Manager Adult and Older Adult Services at **********@austin.org.au.

Application closing date: Sunday 30 August 2026

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📌 Family Carer Consultant (Melbourne)
🏢 Austin Health
📍 Melbourne