Adult Survivor Program Lived Experience Worker

A meaningful opportunity to bring your lived experience and voice to design a new program for adult survivors of child sexual abuse. Assist in survivor-led and wholistic support to elevate choice and control for adult survivors across the Health system.

Employment Type: Temporary Part Time until 30 June 2026 (with a possibility of ongoing employment)
Position Classification: Health Education Officer Non-Graduate
Remuneration: $31.51 - $45.57 per hour
Hours Per Week: 30
Requisition ID: REQ544832

Who we are: We are a health service that touches thousands of lives across the Northern Sydney Local Health District, together as a team of like-minded people. We are passionate, driven and have the skills and knowledge to care for our patients whilst creating the best services possible. Our teams have meaningful, interesting and rewarding work everyday. We challenge and nurture each other, sharing our knowledge and experience so that we can deliver better care for everyone There’s a real sense of belonging here because we value and respect our patients, employees, and teams’ voices. You’ll feel a real privilege being a trusted caregiver in our patients, their families, their carers, and our communities’ lives.

NSLHD is proud of our diverse and inclusive workplaces, a place where health care professionals can thrive and feel they belong. We are committed to ensure that all our people feel respected and participate safely within a work environment without aggression, sexual harassment, discrimination and racism.  

Where you'll be working
You will be working with the Adult Survivor Program Team based on the south campus of RNSH and RNS CHC. This position will require travel across the District.

What you'll be doing
The Adult Survivor Program (ASP) Lived Experience Worker will draw upon their lived experience of childhood sexual abuse, their personal healing journey and their experience of the Health system to support the development of the Adult Survivor Program in Northern Sydney Local Health District (NSLHD).

The ASP Lived Experience Worker will work collaboratively with Prevention and Response to Violence Abuse and Neglect ( PARVAN) Services, Mental Health, Drug and Alcohol and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Services and a broad range of community stakeholders to define the scope of lived experience support and to support victim-survivors using NSLHD services. This role is a hybrid strategic/care navigation position that will support the establishment of lived experience workers within PARVAN.

The position will develop empathic relationships and support personal healing for victim-survivors accessing the  PARVAN Adult Survivor Program and related key service streams and will support the design, delivery, and evaluation of group work programs for adult survivors of childhood sexual assault and their non offending parents and partners using a trauma informed care approach.

The role includes providing capacity building and education on improving Health responses for victim-survivors to staff in key service streams and community partners and provides valuable representative input into systemic issues and changes through policy development, committee activities, projects and research.
This is a non-clinical role. The Lived Experience Worker will receive appropriate training, supervision and support to carry out their role.

We welcome people from all ethnicities, genders, sexual orientations, socio-economic classes, religions, disabilities and ages in everything we do.

The NSW Health Adult Survivors Program is a statewide program which aims to improve health and wellbeing outcomes for adult survivors of child sexual abuse with complex needs including mental health and/or alcohol and other drug needs and the workforce that support them.

People of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander background are encouraged to apply.

Candidates will need to meet the following criteria: