About the role:
- The role will be based at Headspace Ashfield
- Full Time Max Term contract 12 months until 27/3/2027
- 5 days a week
- Great pay and benefits - Access to salary packaging to reduce your taxable income and increase your take home pay by up to $18,550, plus $ 2,650 for entertainment expenses. Enjoy novated leasing.
- Ongoing training and professional development - Grow through mentoring, skills training, and career development pathways.
- Purpose above all else - Be part of a community that values compassion, connection, and wellbeing.
- Lead and supervise a multidisciplinary clinical team, ensuring safe, high‑quality service delivery.
- Provide clinical guidance, consultation, and decision-making support for complex cases and escalations.
- Oversee clinical risk assessments, incident management, and customer safety.
- Support intake, review processes, and occasionally manage a small caseload based on service demand.
- Ensure quality documentation, reporting compliance, and adherence to policies and clinical governance frameworks.
- Work collaboratively with families, carers, community partners, health providers, and funding bodies.
- Drive continuous improvement, contribute to accreditations, and support staff development, onboarding, and performance.
Qualifications
- Degree in psychology (provisional psychologist or registered), social work, occupational therapy or nursing with registration to the appropriate body (if necessary to practice).
- Minimum 5+ years clinical mental health experience (youth highly regarded)
- Demonstrated experience supporting or leading clinical team.
- Excellent organisational skills with proven ability to prioritise, work independently and seek consultation as required
- Demonstrated knowledge and awareness of youth health issues and how they impact on young people.
- Demonstrated experience in mental health assessment, mental health psychoeducation and the delivery of therapeutic brief interventions for clients.
- Awareness of different cultural contexts and the ability to deliver culturally sensitive services.
- Strong interpersonal, communication and problem-solving skills and the ability to form appropriate and effective working relationships with young people, families and key services.
- A sound understanding of privacy legislation, the principles of informed consent, limits of confidentiality and mandatory reporting guidelines
- Current Police Check ( issued within the last 3 months)
- Current NSW Drivers LicenseNDIS worker Check (or willingness to obtain
- NSW WWCC (or willingness to obtain)
- NDIS Worker Screening and Orientation Module
- AHPRA registration or AASW membership