Work Type: Fixed-term - Part-time
Salary: $64,000 - $74,000
Grade: Grade not specified
Occupation: Community services
Location: Melbourne - CBD and Inner Metro suburbs
Reference: 5462
About the role:
This role sits with the Mental Health and Wellbeing Division of Western Health.
The Lived Experience project officer(s) will work in partnership with the Eating Disorders Early Intervention and Integration (EII) Clinical Lead to co-design a research based and clinically informed project focused on EII of Eating Disorders across Western Health. This role is suited to a person with a lived or living experience of mental illness, preferably an eating disorder, or a carer of a person with a lived or living experience of same. The EII Lived Experience project officer(s) are critical in ensuring that lived and living experience informs each step of the process.
The eating disorders EII project aims to help improve access to eating disorder treatment and care as early as possible. The project will also facilitate integration across mental health teams and other key services and teams at Western Health (such as general medication, women's and paediatric services), with the overall goal of optimising outcomes and ensuring continuity of care of people experiencing an eating disorder.
As this is primarily a project-based role it requires independent and autonomous work practices to identify systemic improvement and innovation opportunities, make recommendations for change, and take a lead role in delivering those changes. Lived experience workers also draw on their lived experience and other relevant work experience to provide input to the review and development of policy, practice guidelines and scope of practice.
Key responsibilities:
About you:
About Western Health:
Western Health is one of the largest healthcare providers in Victoria, caring for a vibrant, diverse and rapidly growing community of one million people in Melbourne’s western suburbs.
With more than 13,000 staff, Western Health delivers 800,000+ occasions of care every year, providing high-quality, person-centred care across every life stage.
We provide a combination of hospital, community-based, at-home and in-reach services to aged, adult and paediatric patients and newborn babies. Specialties include
oncology, renal, mental health, women’s health and maternity, chronic diseases, geriatrics and cardiology.
We have remarkable strengths in chronic disease, complex care and developing innovative and sustainable healthcare solutions. Our experience at the coalface of healthcare delivery for some of Australia’s most culturally and socioeconomically diverse and vulnerable populations provides us with unique insights into the most pressing health challenges.
Western Health operates four acute public hospitals: Sunshine Hospital (including Joan Kirner Women’s and Children’s), Footscray Hospital, Williamstown Hospital and Bacchus Marsh Hospital. We also operate Sunbury Community Hospital, Sunshine Mental Health and Wellbeing Centre, Melton Health and Community Services, Bacchus Marsh Community Health Centre, Caroline Springs Community Health Centre and Grant Lodge Residential Aged Care in Bacchus Marsh. Western Health also provides the primary healthcare service at the Dame Phyllis Frost Centre, a women’s prison located in Ravenhall.
Why join us?
Compensation and benefits
Learning and development opportunities
Community impact and inclusion
Organisational culture and environment
Ready to make an impact?
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If you are currently employed at Western Health, please ensure you sign in through the 'Employee Login' via the external Careers Page or access the Careers Page via the intranet before applying.
Closing date: 11:59pm on 28 October 2025.
Enquiries: For further information about this role, contact Lindsay Vernon on 0432 889 453 or via email [email protected] or alternatively contact Caroline Schmidli on 0492 038 760 or via email [email protected].
Western Health is an equal opportunity employer committed to attracting and retaining diversity in our workforce. We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
Western Health is committed to providing a safe environment for the children and young people who are involved in our services, sites and operations. We follow and abide by all legislative requirements to keep children and young people safe.
All appointments are made subject to a satisfactory Police Record Check, an Immunisation Status Clearance and a Working with Children Check (if applicable).
Western Health does not accept unsolicited resumes/applications from recruitment agencies.