Your new role: As the Carer Participation and Engagement Lead, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring carers' voices are heard, valued, and embedded across Metro South Addiction and Mental Health Services (MSAMHS). You will lead strategic and practical initiatives that promote evidence-based carer participation and strengthen recovery-focused care. Lead and coordinate carer participation and engagement activities across diverse multidisciplinary teams within MSAMHS Provide leadership, supervision, and guidance to Carer Peer Workers, promoting best practice and professional development Partner with Allied Health, Nursing, NGOs, and community stakeholders to strengthen carer-informed service planning, delivery, and evaluation Develop and deliver carer-focused groups, training, documentation, and reports that support continuous improvement and system advocacy About you: You are a collaborative and values-driven leader with a strong commitment to social inclusion, recovery-oriented practice, and meaningful carer engagement in mental health services. Demonstrated expertise in carer participation, engagement, and systems advocacy within mental health and/or addiction settings Strong relationship-building skills, with experience working alongside carers, peer workers, NGOs, and multidisciplinary health teams Proven ability to lead, supervise, educate, and influence others to embed carer-informed, person-centred practice Check out our quick tips and application essentials! What we can offer you: We offer a family-friendly work environment that supports you in making the most of Queensland's laid-back lifestyle. We are renowned for teaching and research excellence with strong relations with Queensland's leading tertiary institutions. We want to empower you to build a long-term career, with countless opportunities to learn and grow, no matter your role About us: Princess Alexandra Hospital: The Princess Alexandra Hospital (PAH) is a tertiary health care centre providing care in most major adult specialties. We provide world class health care to Brisbane City's southern suburbs across emergency, medical, mental health and surgical services, including liver and kidney transplant. We are nationally recognised for our expertise in trauma management and organ transplants and are one of Australia's leading academic and research health centres. The PAH as a major medical research precinct hosts Australia's most advanced medical research facility, the Translational Research Institute (TRI) as well as a new Clinical Research Facility for the discoveries made at TRI to be trialed in a safe clinical environment. We're expanding our hospital to make sure everyone gets the care they need. We're adding more beds, modernising our buildings, and improving our spaces to treat kidney and cancer patients with all new services and facilities planned to open by 2027. Princess Alexandra Hospital, a place of countless opportunities to learn and grow your career! INTEGRITY | COMPASSION | ACCOUNTABILITY | RESPECT | ENGAGEMENT | EXCELLENCE Our values were created by employees for employees to shape our culture and inspire positive interactions in the workplace. Diversity of ideas, skills, traditions, and customs is celebrated as one of our greatest strengths. Having a workforce that reflects and understands the needs and expectations of our community is important to delivering safe, kinder, and more inclusive care. We recognise our strength comes from the diversity of our people and so we encourage people of all genders, ethnicities, ages, abilities, languages, sexual orientation, and family responsibilities to apply.We are Metro South Health: We are the major public healthcare provider for Brisbane's south side, Logan, Redlands, and the Scenic Rim operating five major hospitals and a range of community, specialty, and state-wide healthcare services. We are bold, innovative, collaborative, inspiring. We save lives, change lives, and make the world a better place. We are part of and proud of the community we serve. We are better together.
