Are you seeking a rewarding and diverse LLE Family Carer Lead and Consultant role in a leading regional hospital?
Join the Family Carer Lived Experience team at Latrobe Regional Health, where we value our employees by providing a safe and supportive workplace culture that enables you to thrive.
Latrobe Regional Health is looking forLLE Family Carer Lead and Consultantto join our growing team on aFixed Term – 23 months, Part time basis 0.5FTE.
The Family-Carer Lived/Living Experience (LLE) Manager & Senior Consultant is a senior leadership role responsible for leading and supporting the Family-Carer LLE workforce across Mental Health and Wellbeing Services.
Drawing on lived experience as family member, carer, supporter, or kin of someone experiencing mental health challenges, the role provides workforce leadership, supervision, strategic advice, service improvement expertise, and advocacy to ensure family and carer perspectives are embedded in service delivery, planning, governance, and mental health reform initiatives.
Working Together | We will respond to challenges together to create a safe, quality health service
The role of the LLE Family Carer Lead and Consultant is to:
Lead, supervise, mentor, and support Family-Carer LLE staff across multiple service streams.
Oversee recruitment, onboarding, workforce planning, professional development, and retention strategies.
Deliver expert guidance on family-carer inclusion, lived experience practice, governance, policy development, and service improvement.
Ensure the voices of families, carers, supporters, and kin are embedded in service design, evaluation, co-design, and decision-making processes.
Contribute to the implementation of key mental health reforms,



legislation, and human rights-based approaches.
Work closely with consumer lived experience leaders, multidisciplinary teams, community organisations, and state wide lived experience networks.
About you
Ideal candidates for this role will have:
You have lived experience as family member, carer, supporter, or kin of a person living with mental health challenges.
You bring demonstrated leadership or supervisory experience within a Family-Carer Lived Experience, mental health, or peer support environmentand a minimum of 2 years in designated Family-Carer Lived Experience roles
You have a strong understanding of recovery-oriented, family-inclusive, and human rights-based practice.
You are skilled at building cooperative relationships and influencing positive change across diverse stakeholder groups.
You are passionate about advocacy, co-design, and ensuring family and carer voices are meaningfully represented.
You possess excellent communication, organisational, and leadership skills, with the ability to support workforce development and service improvement initiatives.
Latrobe Regional Health offers a range of benefits including:
Salary packaging up to $9,000 per annum.
Meals/Entertainment benefit up to $2,650 per annum.
Encouragement for professional development and ongoing education.




A range of social club activities, discounts and diverse workplace activities.
Free access to our Staff Wellbeing Centre offering health education and wellbeing
Access to discounted gym membership and fitness services through Fitness Passport Services.
Diversity and inclusion
We embrace workforce diversity and actively encourage applications from across our community including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with linguistically diverse backgrounds, people of all genders and gender identities and people with disabilities.
LRH's Aboriginal Hospital Liaison Officer is available to support Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent applicants and can be contacted via email: ******
How to apply
Join us in our mission to provide exceptional healthcare services to our community.
Apply today and make a difference in the lives of our patients and their families.
Please click the APPLY button to be directed to our Careers page for direct application.Applications should include a cover letter addressing the Key Selection Criteria and current resume.
Applications Close: 14th August ****
Applications will be viewed and short listed as received.
LRH reserves the right to conclude a fixed term contract prior to the designated end date as required, by providing the employee with four (4) weeks' notice.
Before commencement, the successful applicant will
Provide evidence of an original and valid National Police Record Check, an employee Working with Children Check, and a current season influenza vaccine (if applicable to work area), unless a valid medical exemption applies.
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📌 Lle Family-Carer-Lead And Consultant (Victoria)
🏢 Latrobe Regional Hospital
📍 Victoria