Parkville Youth Mental Health and Wellbeing Service (PYMHWS) is a new, dedicated public youth mental health service and is the first of its kind in Australia. We are looking for a passionate and dedicated individual to join our team.

DIRECTOR - FAMILY LIVED EXPERIENCE

Parkville Youth Mental Health and Wellbeing Service (PYMHWS)

Permanent Ongoing | Part-Time 0.6 FTE | 📍 Parkville

Utilise your experience as a Family Lived Experience leader to provide strategic and discipline specific guidance in the Senior Leadership Team.

• Join Victoria’s newest Public Mental Health Service dedicated to youth
• Permanent Ongoing role | Parkville based | Hybrid WFH
• Salary Packaging | Fitness Passport | Wellbeing and EAP programs

About Us:

Parkville Youth Mental Health and Wellbeing Service (PYMHWS) is Victoria’s newest public mental health service dedicated to the care of young people aged 12 to 25 experiencing complex mental health challenges. 

PYMHWS is leading a bold and values-driven transformation in youth mental health care across Melbourne’s north and west. We exist to walk alongside young people, their families, carers, supporters and kin delivering care that is accessible, inclusive, developmentally appropriate, evidence-informed, and grounded in lived experience. Our service model is shaped by the voices of young people and their communities, and underpinned by a commitment to safety, equity, and continuous learning.

At PYMHWS, we are working with our community and partners to build in a future where all young people can access world-class mental health support, close to home. As we grow, we are looking for passionate, skilled, and visionary professionals to join us in shaping a new era of youth mental health in Victoria.  

The Opportunity:

We are seeking our inaugural Director Family Lived Experience to join us at PYMHWS to help connect us to the voice of young people and ensure we are responsive to their needs and those of their families, carers, supporters and kin.

Join us to be the inaugural Director - Family Lived Experience, guiding the service to ensure a youth lived experience voice is heard, listened to and contributing to change. We are seeking an experienced lived experience leader to provide strategic and discipline specific guidance in the Senior Leadership Team. If you have had experience working in the mental health system at a peer worker and consultant level and are looking to make a higher level contribution with a strategic and growth mindset, we want to hear from you.

Our service is made up of compassionate, curious, and committed people. As we continue to grow, we are looking for an energetic, passionate, visionary and experienced lived experience leader to lead the delivery of lived experience strategy, the expansion and embedding of the workforce and participation at all levels across the service.

Why Join PYMHWS?

• Be part of building a legacy for youth mental health in Victoria
• Work alongside passionate, visionary leaders in a values-led organisation
• Salary packaging options, up to $11,600 tax free earnings
• 5 weeks annual leave 
• Flexible working arrangements including remote work options where possible
• Employee wellbeing focused, access to EAP
• Fitness Passport membership
• Flexible, inclusive, and supportive workplace culture
• Opportunities for professional growth and development

 About the Role:

The Director Family Lived Experience will oversee Lived Experience workforce and service delivery programs, focusing on strategic thinking, planning, implementation, and evaluation. They will ensure the workforce is capable, well supported, and focused on holding lived experience values and principles at the heart of all decision making and direction. This is a unique opportunity in an inaugural role to help shape the way PYMHWS deeply embeds a lived experience voice.

What You'll Do:

• Guide the organisation with a strong vision about how to ensure a lived experience youth voice is heard
• Support the growing lived experience workforce across the whole organisation
• Collaborate with a group of Discipline Seniors who all contribute to supporting as of all disciplines to grow and learn at PYMHWS
• Work alongside the Director Family Lived Experience to drive and support co-creation, co-production and participation at all levels of the service

About You:

We are seeking an energised person who has been through, and worked in, the mental health system, who feels passionately about helping guide a youth mental health service.

✔️ Experience as a peer worker and consultant and be confident in guiding strategy

✔️ Wonderful collaborator who strongly believes that every discipline contributes to providing evidenced based care to young people and their carers, family, supporters and kin.

✔️ Excellent communication skills and can work with people at all levels.

✔️ Value respectful ways of working and strive toward contributing to a great culture in the workplace.  

Ready to Make a Difference?
If you're looking to be part of something truly meaningful—we’d love to hear from you.

For a confidential discussion, contact Hannah Bloom, Chief Operating Officer - 0436 478 687.

Interested applicants are encouraged to apply as soon as possible. Recruitment is ongoing, with interviews commencing as soon as suitable candidates are received. Advertising may cease prior to the closing date.

We provide reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process to support all applicants. If you require any adjustments, please let us know via the application prompts or inform our People and Culture team if you’re contacted for an interview.

Please click HERE to view the full position description.

All appointments are made subject to a satisfactory Criminal History Record Check and a Working with Children Check. Successful applicants will be required to provide evidence of an immunisation assessment prior to commencement.

PYMHWS stands in solidarity with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in work and care. We are proud to be a workplace that champions diversity, inclusion and equality for our staff and our community.  Our goal is for our people to feel safe, included and supported so that they can be at their best every single day. We encourage talented people from all backgrounds, abilities, and identities to apply to our vacancies, and will consider adjustments to support such applications.