Job no: 0053767
Location: Parkville
Role type: Part-time (0.6 FTE); Continuing Research Contingent
Faculty: Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences
Department/School: School of Health Sciences, Department of Nursing
Salary: Academic B – $119,231 – $141,581 p.a. plus 17% super
- Provide leadership in consumer perspective and expertise activities in the Centre for Mental Health Nursing
- Be a subject matter expert on consumer perspective within the organisation
- Salary packaging, subsidised health and wellbeing services, fitness and cultural clubs, Myki discounts, and a 25% discount on graduate courses to our staff and their immediate families!
About the Role
Located within the Centre for Mental Health Nursing (CentreMHN) in the Department of Nursing, School of Health Sciences at the University of Melbourne, this position will lead the Consumer Academic program to ensure the successful delivery of consumer perspective teaching, evaluation research and consultancies and provide consumer perspective leadership on the wider CentreMHN workplan and initiatives. This position will need to be able to coordinate a diverse team, bringing them together to produce the best outcomes.
The Consumer Academic Coordinator will lead academic projects focused on consumer perspective contributions to mental health nursing and interdisciplinary team practices and also on projects providing direct support to consumer workforce and practices. These projects may include: workforce training and curriculum design related to policy implementation, and competitive tendering for evaluation research of lived experience workforce initiatives and mental health nursing focussed practice initiatives. This position will have the opportunity to access academic supports, mentoring and professional development to support their success in the role. The Consumer Academic Coordinator will be a subject matter expert within the University community and have opportunities to work with a range of staff at all levels of the organisation.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Leading and coordinating diverse teams of professionals working on projects
- Managing health services research project from design to reporting
- Contributing to the development of the consumer perspective discipline and development of teaching and learning activities
Who We Are Looking For
Our ideal candidate is one who is not necessarily from a traditional academic background, but one with lived experience using public sector mental health services as a consumer, or experience with the inability to access services. You should have solid leadership traits and strong relationships within the consumer movement, demonstrating the ability to build and maintain relationships with key stakeholders and work collaboratively.
You will ideally have at least three years of experience in one or more areas of consumer perspective work, such as mental health peer support practice, consumer consultancy, consumer advocacy, consumer teaching, or consumer research. Additionally, experience and skills in project management, including ensuring timely outputs, written reports, and supervising the work of others, are essential.
You will also have:
- Lived Expertise in the form of personal experience; deep discipline knowledge informed by consumer led research and teachings as well as collective knowledge of universal lived experiences
- Demonstrated critical/reflective thinking and writing skills, including an awareness of one’s own beliefs and recognising consumers’ multiple ways of understanding experiences
- Knowledge of and experience working in interdisciplinary teams, using co-production
For further information regarding responsibilities and requirements, please refer to the attached PD.
This role requires that the successful candidate must undergo and maintain an up-to-date Working with Children Check. This is essential to guarantee a secure environment for all individuals at the University. In the case the selected candidate doesn't have a valid Working with Children Check, they will be able to apply for the WWCC as part of the initial onboarding procedures.
Please note: Visa sponsorship is not available for this position. This role requires current valid work rights for Australia.
Your New Team – Department of Nursing
www.nursing.unimelb.edu.au
Since 1999 the Centre for Mental Health Nursing has been a government funded academic centre within Nursing at the University of Melbourne. It exists to support and develop the Victorian mental health nursing workforce. The CentreMHN achieves this aim through collaborations with the Chief Mental Health Nurse and her office, mental health nurses in the sector, consumer academics and other academics in and beyond this University.
Since 2008 the qualifying degree in Nursing at The University of Melbourne has been a Master of Nursing Science and is open to graduates from a range of undergraduate degree programs. The Department also offers 8 specialist Graduate Certificate courses, 1 Graduate Diploma course and 4 Advanced Practice courses (including the Master of Advanced Nursing Practice Nurse-Practitioner). There are 5 programs of research including: cancer, emergency and critical care, infant and child health, chronic disease and care across the lifespan and mental health. The mental health postgraduate curriculum includes the consumer produced subject, Consumer Perspective: Theory & Practice (https://handbook.unimelb.edu.au/2019/subjects/nurs90018 ), as a core subject.
What We Offer You!
In addition, we offer the opportunity to be part of a vibrant community and enjoy a range of benefits, including generous leave provisions, salary packaging, health and well-being services and discounts on graduate courses. For more information, check out our benefits page!
About the University of Melbourne
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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Applicants
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Join Us!
If you feel this role is right for you, please apply with the following documents:
- Resume
- Cover Letter outlining your interest and experience
- The responses against the Selection Criteria^ (found in the Position Description)
^For information to help you with compiling short statements to answer the selection criteria and competencies, please go to http://about.unimelb.edu.au/careers/selection-criteria
If you have any questions regarding the recruitment process, please feel free to contact Nick Petersen via email at hr-careers@unimelb.edu.au, ensuring that you include the Position Number and the Job Title as the subject. Please do not share your application to this email address.
If you have any particular questions regarding the job please follow the details listed on the Position Description.
Position Description
