Youth Lived Experience Worker (level 2) - Eating Disorders (Child & Youth Mental Health

Alfred Health

Alfred Health is a leader in health care delivery, improvement, research and education. We are the main provider of health services to people living in the inner southeast suburbs of Melbourne, from ambulatory to inpatient and home and community-based services.

Are you a young person with a lived experience of an eating disorder?

Join the Youth Program Team at Alfred ICYAMHWS and make an impact supporting young people.

• Full-time (1EFT / 80 hours) - Part-time considered - to end June 2027
• Lived Experience Worker Level 2
• Based in Moorabbin, with some travel required
• Exciting role specifically for young people who have lived experience of an eating disorder

ABOUT US

Alfred Infant Child and Youth Area Mental Health and Wellbeing Service (ICYAMHWS) is friendly to infants, children, young people and their families/carers.  

We provide accessible mental health services inclusive of family, friends and support networks.  

We are a specialist, multi-disciplinary and intensive care mental health service incorporating the lived and living experience of family peer specialists and youth peer workers.  

Our service is divided into two streams 0-11 and 12-26 years, and includes specialist services in the areas of perinatal care, neurodevelopmental presentations, eating disorders and outreach support. 

Here at Alfred Health our staff share they are proud of the workplace at ICYAMHWS, including shared values and attitudes, inclusion of diversity, company culture, innovation and impact, and career growth. ICYAMHWS staff feel working at ICYAMHWS is meaningful as they experience a sense of connection in what they do, express feeling valued in the work they undertake, and that they are making a difference. We pride ourselves on taking care of their staff by providing support, supervision, reflective practice, education and professional development, whilst challenging them to grow.  

If you want to build a career in a team that adopts a family focused and systemic lens, and one which values respect, partnership and integrity, then click below to learn more about this job opportunity.

Eating Disorders Program

Alfred ICYAMHWS have been providing collaborative, needs adapted family-based treatment for eating disorders for many years.

In addition to the current Eating Disorders Program, the Infant, Child and Youth Mental Health and Wellbeing Service has received 3 years funding to establish an in-home  intensive early engagement and treatment program for eating disorders. The Program will provide a step up in treatment response for young consumers who are not responding to lower intensity community treatment and a step-down response from acute treatment residential units.

WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING

As a Youth Lived Experience Worker, you will draw from your own lived experience of eating disorders to support young people accessing ICYAMHWS and inspire hope and encouragement in the recovery journey. In your role as a Youth Lived Experience Worker, you will be instrumental in bringing the perspective and voice of young people within the multidisciplinary team.  Youth Lived Experience Workers are not clinicians,  however they are as much a valued part of our service. Our Lived Experience Workers have a key responsibility to help inform our service design and delivery. In this context, sharing insights that are drawn from your own lived experience may be really important in enabling a colleague or team to develop an understanding of a person’s experiences, or how we may be working and the potential impact of this on a young person’s experience.

A regular day will see you:

• Support young people who are accessing Alfred ICYAMHWS
• Work with other disciplines to ensure the young person’s voice is considered in planning and work
• Support and work alongside other lived/living experience staff
• Support service improvement activity

WHAT YOU’VE GOT

• Lived experience of eating disorders as a young person and experience of utilising mental health services in your own recovery (essential Key Selection Criteria)
• Recognition and understanding of your own personal recovery process and the ability to use this to appropriately share your story with purpose to support others (essential)
• Confidence and skill to communicate and advocate for yourself and young people in a clinical environment
• Australian working rights (essential)
• Current Victorian Driver License (essential)
• Current Working with Children Check or willing to obtain one, and be willing to undergo a Background Check (essential)

WHAT YOU’LL GET

• Relevant training (e.g. Youth Peer Support, Group Facilitation, Dialogical Practice)
• Regular peer discipline supervision, group reflection and line management supervision
• Support from the Youth Program team dedicated to promoting the voice of lived experience

OTHER BENEFITS

• Salary Packaging & Novated Leasing through Maxxia.
• Flexible Heath Insurance coverage through HCF Health Insurance
• Access to discounted gym membership for gyms across Melbourne via Fitness Passport
• Frequent professional development opportunities and regular professional supervision
• Located close to public transport and cafes

If this opportunity sounds like it is for you, click the APPLY button, including your cover letter responding to the Key Selection Criteria, and your resume.

For more information regarding the positions please contact Jessica Anson (Youth Program Manager) on ph: 0437 863 358.

Applications close Sunday 11 May 2025 at 11pm AEST. Please ensure your cover letter is separately attached.

NOTE: Applications without both cover letter and resume will not be accepted, nor will late applications.

Alfred Health is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to attracting and retaining a diverse workforce that reflects the community we serve.  Applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders are encouraged.

In accordance with the Health Services Amendment (Mandatory Vaccination of Healthcare Workers) Act 2020, health care workers in Category A or B roles (as determined by the department’s risk ratings) are required to be vaccinated against influenza or hold an acceptable medical exemption. 

Website: www.alfredhealth.org.au