Lead a Team of Passionate Clinicians and Drive Change

We’re seeking a dedicated Clinical Lead to guide a passionate multidisciplinary team, ensuring young people receive the highest quality mental health care. In this leadership role, you'll provide clinical guidance, supervision, and innovation to deliver evidence-based support and oversee services in a dynamic environment.

This is your opportunity to shape the future of mental health services by focusing on service governance, team training, and stakeholder collaboration, while being part of a supportive team that prioritises both professional growth and the well-being of young people and their families.

Why You’ll Love It:

• Lead a team providing mental health services for young people within a flexible practice model.
• Work in a vibrant and supportive centre, where your team is passionate about delivering high-quality care.
• Receive individual supervision to support your professional growth.
• Team celebration of successes and milestones (often with cake!) as well as opportunities for social connection and team building.
• A culture of support from management and peers at other headspace centres.
• Access professional development and training opportunities to suit your learning goals and enhance your expertise.
• Enjoy the support of reception and administrative staff, as well as well-equipped consulting rooms and resources.
• Salary packaging options, including up to $15,990 tax-free and an employee referral bonus!

Your Day-to-Day:

• Lead and inspire a multidisciplinary team, ensuring high-quality, evidence-based mental health care for young people.
• Oversee clinical services, managing caseloads, governance, and ensuring smooth service delivery.
• Support and develop staff through training, supervision, and professional growth, including clinical supervision of students.
• Collaborate with key stakeholders in the local community to build integrated care pathways and strengthen partnerships for young people.
• Be part of a national network of headspace centres, including connection with training, program implementation and advisory services.
• Maintain high standards of safety, quality, and compliance, while driving continuous service improvements.

About You: Are you a professional, innovative, and caring clinician who thrives in a collaborative team environment? Do you have experience in leadership roles and a passion for providing high-quality mental health services? If so, we’d love to hear from you.

We’re looking for someone with:

• Tertiary qualifications in Psychology, Social Work, Occupational Therapy, or Mental Health Nursing, with full unconditional registration with AHPRA (required for psychology, occupational therapy or nursing only). OT’s, Social Workers and Nurses will require additional mental health training, credentials or accreditation through a professional body.
• Strong experience in mental health settings, including clinical triage, assessment, referral, and working therapeutically with young people and families.
• Leadership skills in managing multidisciplinary teams, providing clinical supervision, and overseeing service governance.
• Expertise in mental health assessment, treatment, and family-inclusive practice, with a focus on continuous quality improvement.
• Excellent communication, organisational, and stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to manage competing priorities in a dynamic environment.

What You’ll Need to Get Started:

• Current open Driver's Licence.
• Current Blue Card or the ability to obtain one, or valid AHPRA registration.
• Current Police Check or ability to obtain one.

Join an organisation that is committed to growth and excellence in mental health care. Be a part of shaping the future and making a lasting impact.

Ready to Apply? If this sounds like you, click ‘Apply Now.’ We can’t wait to meet you!

For any queries, contact Sam Kilby at [email protected].

Diversity is Strength. We encourage people from diverse ages, gender, identity, cultural backgrounds and experience including First nations peoples, Cultural and linguistically diverse, LGBTQIA+, lived/ peer, mental health experience, to apply for this position.

Open Minds acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of the lands on which we all work, live and play on. We pay our respects to the Elders past and present and extend that respect to all First Nations Peoples. We reflect upon the millions of footprints that are embedded into the earth from our Ancestors, the pathways that were forged, the meaning they leave behind and the continuation of the traditions through the next generations.