YPARC Team Leader Lived Experience

• Utilise your learnings from lived/living experience in a leadership role to support young people with mental health challenges
• Permanent | Full time
• Heidelberg Location

Mind strongly encourages applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, people with a lived experience of mental ill health and recovery, and applicants from all cultures, genders, sexualities, bodies, abilities, spiritualities, ages and backgrounds.

Mind Australia is one of the country’s leading community-managed specialist mental health service providers with a range of residential, mobile outreach, centre based and online services. We have been supporting people living with the day‑to‑day impacts of mental illness, as well as their families, friends and carers for over 45 years.

We provide practical and motivational support that helps people to develop the skills they need to move on, thrive and improve the quality of their lives. It’s an approach to mental health and wellbeing that looks at the whole person in the context of their daily life. Mind is committed to diversity and social inclusion.

About the role

The Sub‑Acute short stay ‘step up, step down’ Youth Prevention and Recovery Care (YPARC) service, delivered in partnership with Austin Health and Mind Australia, supports young people with psychosocial disability to transition from an acute hospital setting (Step-down) or to prevent hospital admissions by providing extra support to those entering directly from the community (step‑up).

The Youth Prevention and Recovery Care (YPARC) service is a residential program providing short‑term, intensive treatment up to 28 days to young people aged between 16‑25 years living with mental health challenges.

We are seeking a compassionate Team Leader Lived Expertise for a Permanent, Full‑Time opportunity in the Heidelberg area. You will provide leadership and support to a dedicated team ensuring the delivery of high‑quality recovery‑oriented services. You champion the voice of lived experience whilst having delegated authority to make day‑to‑day decisions to ensure the operational requirements of the service are met.

Key responsibilities

• Demonstrate knowledge and abilities gained from lived and living experiences, collective impacts, and Lived Expertise and be able to support the development of these approaches.
• Lead delivery of services to young people, carers and families to ensure that individually tailored services for young people and their family and carers are provided to the highest standard.
• Provide practice supervision to staff who are providing direct support to people at the service.
• Operate within delegated authority and undertake a range of administrative tasks that support co‑design development activities.
• Support a team whose practices vary to finding ways in which to bring them together with common values and principles.

What you’ll bring

• Completion of Intentional Peer Support Core and/ or Advanced Training.
• Tertiary qualifications in Mental Health, Peer Work, Alcohol and Other Drugs (AOD) or other health related field as designated by Mind are also desirable but not required.
• Expertise in working with people with mental health issues, complex needs and interacting with families and carers.
• Ability to share learnings from your personal story in an appropriate and purposeful manner to support, empower, speak about the times of hopelessness and the importance of hope.
• Experience leading teams, preferably in a residential or youth focused setting.

Benefits

• Salary packaging up to $15,899 p.a. allows you to allocate a portion of your pre‑tax income to cover living expenses (e.g. rent, mortgage, child care, car leasing expenses etc.)
• Option to access Meal and Entertainment allowance up to $2,650 p.a. via Salary Packaging.
• Generous leave entitlements including 8 weeks paid parental leave, 17.5% annual leave loading, and Monthly Accumulated Day off (Full time employees).
• Access to our Employee Assistance Program (EAP), provided by Converge International,for you and your immediate family members.
• Fitness Passport - Access to our corporate health and fitness program, providing you and family with access to a wide choice of fitness facilities.

Interested?

To apply visit Mind Careers - reference number . Online applications must be submitted by 11pm Wednesday 8 April 2026. We encourage you to apply promptly as the advertisement may close early should a suitable applicant be sourced. Please contact the person below for more information.

Chris Van Saane - Service Manager - Austin Health CRP & PARC -

PD Team Leader - Lived Expertise (YPARC - Austin) .pdf

The successful applicant is required to complete comprehensive reference and background checking prior to employment, including a Working with Children Check, NDIS Workers Screening Check.

We are committed to making reasonable adjustments to provide a positive, barrier‑free recruitment process. If you require any support or reasonable adjustments to complete your application, please contact us at