Where excellence meets opportunity - discover your next chapter with cohealth

• Full time, permanent
• Work for a multi-award-winning iconic community health organisation
• Generous salary packaging options to reduce your cohealth taxable income

So why cohealth?

cohealth leads the way in reducing health and social inequity in partnership with people and the communities in which they live. Named Premier's Health Service of the Year (Primary) and the Supporting LGBTIQ+ Health Service at the Victorian Public Healthcare Awards, cohealth's 1000 staff demonstrate courage, leadership, innovation, and agility in their commitment to providing inclusive and culturally safe health services that protect the human rights of all people of all gender identities, sexualities, ages, cultural and linguistic backgrounds, faiths, and abilities.

Our inclusive workplace culture enables staff to bring their whole selves to work, where uniqueness is valued, and people experience a feeling of belonging. Our aim is for everyone to thrive in their role. Please click here to find out more.

About the role

The Brimbank Local Lived Experience Lead is a key member of the senior leadership team, providing Lived Experience leadership to a team of peer workers and a advice and expertise to the wider multidisciplinary team.

The role will:

• Be guided by the fundamental values that shape the approach and philosophy of consumer lived experience practice, including choice, connection, and human rights
• Will embed lived experience principles through all systems, processes, and activities of the Brimbank Mental Health and Wellbeing program.

Please refer to the Position Description for more information.

Your duties include:

• Lead the implementation and monitoring of the Brimbank Local Lived Experience plan and the supporting of other strategies and frameworks to ensure lived experience is centred and thrives in the wider work of the Brimbank Local.
• Oversee the design and coordination of Lived Experience participation
• Provide mentorship in collaboration with the Peer cadet lead as part of the Brimbank Local Peer cadet program
• Contribute to initiatives to deliver cohealth's strategic directions and commitment to values-based care, co-design and community engagement.

What cohealth offers:

• Exciting Parental leave benefits
  • cohealth offers primary carers 14 weeks paid parental leave upon completion of only 6 months of continuous service
  • Eligible co-workers will continue to receive superannuation on unpaid parental leave as well
• Salary packaging to suit you - tax free amount of up to $15,900 p.a (mortgage, rent, or credit cards) and a further $2,650 p.a (meal, entertainment expenses and holiday accommodation) alongside generous reward programs from our salary packaging providers. Find out more on salary packaging here: https://www.ato.gov.au/Individuals/Jobs-and-employment-types/Working-as-an-employee/Salary-sacrificing-for-employees/
• Novated Leasing available
• Counselling services for you and your immediate family through our EAP-Access provider, and mindfulness, resilience, and wellbeing programs
• We offer inclusion, equality, and opportunity in a workplace where making a difference counts (based on our guiding principles and values)

Our ideal candidate:

• Personal lived/living experience of mental health challenges and/or situational distress and journey of wellbeing/healing and ability to intentionally use these learnings to purposefully support others.
• Proof of qualification to be sighted
• Victorian Driver's License
• Highly desirable - completion of Certificate 4 in Peer Support or equivalent and/or Intentional Peer Support

Application Process

To download the PD, and to apply for this job go to: https://cohealthcareers.org.au/Current-Jobs & enter ref code: 6778103. Applications close 22 August 2025 at 10PM

You will be asked to upload your CV/ resume and Cover Letter as well as address the key selection criteria.

We will be conducting interviews for this role as applications are received. If you have any questions regarding this role, please contact Claire Conlon Claire.Conlon@cohealth.org.au

All appointments are made subject to a satisfactory Nationally Coordinated Criminal History Check (NCCHC), a Working with Children Check (WWCC), complete a Pre-Employment Declaration Form, evidence of legal rights to work in Australia, and evidence of vaccination.

Successful applicants will be required to provide evidence of immunisation assessment including Influenza within 12 weeks of commencement [B]. This is in accordance with the Victorian Minister of Health Mandatory Vaccination Orders and legislated requirement for influenza vaccination.