This supervisor has been approved to provide supervision under the ACCESS TO SUPERVISION PROJECT. As a passionate family/carer with over 30 years’ of Lived Experience supporting multiple family members with mental health distress, I know first-hand the challenges that families, carers and supporters face in navigating services to access supports for loved ones and themselves.

Sometimes I wonder did I really choose this career or did fate place me where it was most needed. My passion began many years ago, as a highly skilled professional with in excess of 10 years working across North Western Mental Health and Department of Health in various roles as a Carer Consultant, Family/Carer Peer Support Worker, Carer Advisor, Senior Carer Advisor and Carer Perspective Supervision developer and Trainer.

My professional experience reflects my passion and dedication in working from the carer perspective and Carer Lived Experience Workforce (CLEW) values and principles to uphold and advocate the views and experiences of families, carers and supporters.

Central to this has been my commitment in strengthening and cultivating foundational supports for the Carer LE Workforce having led the Carer Perspective Supervision Framework, developing and delivering the Carer Perspective Supervision Training. I believe that a well-developed, supported and integrated carer workforce has the potential to have a significant impact on creating genuine positive change and know all our Carer LE workforce is not only entitled but needs to receive Carer Perspective Supervision for sustainability and wellbeing

Publications: Carer Perspective Supervision Framework A framework for supporting the mental health family/carer lived experience workforce Led and Member of the Co-design Team September 2021

This supervisor has been approved to provide supervision under the ACCESS TO SUPERVISION PROJECT. If you are a supervisee who has received an approval email/letter from the CMHL you may contact this supervisor for supervision for this project, then follow the stated processes for supervision payment.

2009 – Personal Care Assistant – Aged Home and Community Care 2012 – 2014 Cert IV Trainer and Assessor in Aged Carer and HACC across Training organisations 2015 – 2020 Carer Consultant Northern Area Mental Health Service as well as 2017 – 2018 North West Area Mental Health Service 2018 – 2020 Carer Peer Support Worker – Northern Area Mental Health Service 2020 – Carer Advisor NorthWestern Mental Health 2021 – Chair and Led the Victorian state wide project - Carer Perspective Supervision Framework NWMH 2022 – 2023 Chair and Led the development of the Victorian state wide project – Carer Perspective Supervision Training 2022 – 2024 Senior Carer Advisor Lived Experience – Department of Health 2024 - Developer and Trainer of the Carer Perspective Supervision Training – Tandem/CLEW Carer Lived Experience Workforce Additionally worked on the Eating Disorder Strategy and Carer Peer Call Back Service at the Department of Health two very important project for the Royal Commission Some additional areas of Carer LE Experience include but not limited to:

• Carer Representative for Victoria for the Embrace Multicultural Mental Health – co-developing the National Suicide Prevention Framework • Development of a co-designed and co-produced NWMH Family Violence and Safety Planning in Mental Health Resource • Experience of 2 years - Member of the Leadership Team for CLEW • Development of a co-designed and co-produced Working effectively with Lived experience Workforce Training • Developed and Delivered - Impact on family members of having a relative with a mental health challenge – La Trobe University • National Suicide Prevention Conference – Guest Speaker • Guest Speaker International Mental Health Conference – Improving Services for Families and Carers • 2023 – TheMES Conference – Embedding Lived Experience in system transformation Lessons from Victoria’s mental health and wellbeing system – The Lived Experience Branch, Department of Health

Private Practice as a Family/Carer Consulting Service

Delivering Carer Perspective Supervision Training - Tandem/CLEW

Providing Carer Perspective Supervision

I have participated in many professional development training and courses over the years below provides some of the relevant training to this work:

• Intentional Peer Support Training (IPS) • Clinical Supervision Training (Bouverie) • Co-design and Co-production Training (TACSI) • White Belt Training (RMH) • Safety Champion • National Disability Insurance Scheme Forum (NDIS) for specialist Mental Health Services • Families and Partners in Mental Health Care • Responding to Vulnerable and at Risk Children and Families • Victorian Mental Health Interprofessional Leadership Program • Carer Consultant Network Victoria Training • NWMH Interview Panel Workshop • RCA/IDS Training – Root Cause Analyses and In-depth Case Review • Cert IV Training and Assessment

My approach to supervision is to create an inviting, warm and comfortable safe space that is non-judgemental for reflective practice, Intentional Peer Support and Carer Lived Experience Workforce Values and Principles, including being informed by the Victorian Carer Perspective Supervision Framework. I work collaboratively with the supervisee to help them to engage through co-reflection, providing mentorship, leadership/information, and support them to share their learnings, challenges, fears, well-being and current practice, all while providing compassion, understanding and opportunity to grow, problem solve and build on their skills, confidence while addressing their needs through thoughtful considered support. My passion is to support the Carer Lived Experience Workforce to grow and develop their skills and confidence to be true change agents across services and to create better understanding and support that can truly improve the lives of all families, carers and supporters in our communities in Mental Health.