Professor / Associate Professor of Mental Health System Reform
- Employer
- UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE
- Location
- Melbourne, Australia
- Salary
- $175,858 to $226,517 p.a.
- Closing date
- 24 Jan 2025
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- Academic Discipline
- Clinical, Pre-clinical & Health, Psychology, Social Sciences, Other Health & Social Care
- Job Type
- Academic Posts, Professors / Chairs, Principal / Senior Lecturers / Associate Professors
- Contract Type
- Fixed Term
- Hours
- Full Time
Job Details
Job no: 0062818
Location: Parkville
Role type: Full-Time (1.0 FTE); Fixed Term for 2 years (with possibility of renewal)
Faculty: Medicine Dentistry and Health Sciences
Department/School: The Victorian Collaborative Centre for Mental Health and Wellbeing, Department of Psychiatry, University of Melbourne
Salary: Level D: $175,858 to $193,740 p.a. OR Level E: $226,517 p.a. (pro rata for part-time) + 17% super
Opportunity
The University of Melbourne is searching for an exceptional leader to shape the research direction of the Best Practice Consortium, a partnership with the University of Melbourne and the Royal Melbourne Hospital and our 18 other Consortium Members, as a part of the Victorian Collaborative Centre for Mental Health and Wellbeing. This role offers you a unique opportunity to drive impactful mental health research, alongside consumer and carer lived experience leadership, that directly improves the lives of Victorians and mental health landscape.
As the Professor or Associate Professor of Mental Health System Reform, you will be responsible for forging new connections, cultivating, and maintaining relationships and ensuring the cooperation of all Consortium members and the Victorian Collaborative Centre for Mental Health and Wellbeing, working closely with the University of Melbourne Consortium Program Coordinator and the Best Practice Partnership Lead, RMH. You will be responsible for managing effectively and efficiently Consortium research activities; and creating a culture and environment conducive to research excellence and new ways of knowing and partnering with lived and living experience consumers and carers.
About You
We seek an experienced mental health researcher known for both scientific acumen and diplomatic skills. Your leadership embodies a systemic perspective, prioritising lived experience leadership, co-creation, and innovation. Your proven expertise in strategic partnerships will be key to fostering collaborative excellence within the mental health sector.
You will possess;
- PhD or equivalent professional qualification.
- Proven leadership in independent & collaborative mental health research, encompassing research translation, implementation science, co-production and co- design with lived experience consumers and carers workforce development, & innovation.
- Significant community and clinical ties to foster partnerships and translate research into improved care and outcomes.
- Full list of the key search criteria can be found in the attached candidate pack.
This position requires the incumbent to hold a current and valid Working with Children Check.
About Us
The Victorian Collaborative Centre for Mental Health and Wellbeing
The Victorian Collaborative Centre for Mental Health and Wellbeing is driving transformative change in Victoria’s mental health and wellbeing system. Committed to innovation, the Centre champions leadership from lived and living experiences, develop safe, and effective, mental health services, and integrate lived experience and translational research evidence across the mental health and wellbeing system.
Melbourne Medical School
Established in 1862, Melbourne Medical School (MMS) in the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences at The University of Melbourne is the oldest medical school in Australia. It is internationally renowned for global leadership in teaching and training, health research, policy and practice. MMS is ranked 14th in the world (Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2022 for clinical, pre-clinical and health), has strong academic partnerships and ground-breaking collaborative research programs with leading public and private hospitals, as well as leading medical research institutes and centres in Australia and internationally.
Employee Benefits
We offer generous employee benefits to help maximise your work life. These include flexible and family friendly working conditions, salary packaging, internal School and Faculty grant schemes including a dedicated scheme for women and generous leave provisions. This is a fantastic opportunity to work in a culturally rich and values-based environment.
To find out more, go to https://about.unimelb.edu.au/careers/staff-benefits
How to apply
Your application submitted should include a Cover Letter, CV and document with responses against the selection criteria found in the Candidate Pack for the role.
Candidate pack: Professor or Associate Professor of Mental Health System Reform.pdf
Applications close: 24 Jan 2025 11:55 PM AUS Eastern Daylight Time
Company
The University of Melbourne enjoys an outstanding reputation with world rankings consistently placing us as Australia’s leading comprehensive research-intensive university, and one of the world’s top 50*.
Melbourne attracts the best and brightest students and researchers and, with a history of over 160 years, we occupy a special place at the heart of our city’s cultural scene.
Melbourne is a leading research university, widely renowned for its teaching and the social and economic contributions it makes through knowledge transfer. The University’s performance in international rankings puts it at the forefront of higher education in the Asia-Pacific and beyond.
Internationally, the University is consistently ranked among the leading universities in the world, with its international peers placing it in the top 20 worldwide, and employers placing it in the top 10. In the recent Times Higher Education rankings of the world’s top 200 universities, Melbourne ranked top in Australia and 33 in the world.
Melbourne’s international research pre-eminence was also acknowledged with a top 100 ranking in the Shanghai Jiao Tong rankings. Ranked No. 44 in 2015, the University has climbed steadily in the rankings since first appearing at No. 92 in 2003.
The Melbourne Model introduces undergraduate programs characterised by both breadth and depth, followed by a graduate professional degree, a research higher degree or entry directly into employment.
In 2008 Melbourne commenced offering six New Generation undergraduate degrees in Arts, Biomedicine, Commerce, Environments, Music and Science. The Melbourne Model also introduces a new graduate school experience to Australia, providing the best and brightest with a more focused, intense and professionally relevant degree in areas such as Law, Architecture, Teaching and Nursing. With the Melbourne curriculum now aligning the University with the world’s top universities in Europe, North America and Asia, we enable our students to develop the skills and attributes required by employers all over the world.
More than 50,000 students from over 120 countries take courses in the University’s 12 faculties and graduate schools.
For more information please visit: http://www.unimelb.edu.au
*Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2015 – 2016 and Academic Ranking of World Universities 2015
- Mini-site
- UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE
- Telephone
- +61 (3) 8344 4000
- Location
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Parkville
Melbourne
Victoria
VIC 3010
Australia
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