About Anglicare NT

Anglicare NT is a respected provider of quality human services across urban, regional, and remote areas. Anglicare NT offers a range of career opportunities in the community and social services sector in a diverse range of fields such as children and youth, family relationships and counselling, refugee and migrant, corporate services, financial counselling, mental health, disability and home care, social enterprises, and specialist homelessness services.

We offer great benefits, including:

• Further training and development options.
• Flexible working conditions; five (5) weeks annual leave.
• A strengths-based environment.

We also offer great salary packaging options that can significantly increase your take-home pay.

About headspace

headspace are a busy and innovative youth mental health service providing a variety of mental health, medical, sexual and other health related services as well as vocational, functional groups and social services to young people aged 12 to 25 years and their families.

About the Opportunity

As the Clinical Lead at headspace, you'll be at the forefront of providing compassionate and effective care to young people and their families experiencing mental health issues. In this role, you'll provide clinical leadership, supervision, and support to our committed Primary Mental Health Team, and Social Emotional Wellbeing Worker.

Working closely with the Centre Manager, you'll play a pivotal role in ensuring that our clinical services align with the Australian Early Psychosis Guidelines and the headspace model.

In addition to your clinical responsibilities, you'll lead quality assurance initiatives such as file auditing and clinical reviews, fostering a culture of continuous improvement within our team. Your dedication to upholding the values of Anglicare NT will ensure that we continue to provide quality services that make a positive impact in our community.

To be successful in this role you will have:

• Approved tertiary qualification (Psychology, Social Work, Occupational Therapy, Nursing) and minimum 5 years' experience in a health-related discipline
• Postgraduate qualifications in evidence based therapeutic modalities (i.e. CBT and ACT) is essential.
• Registration with the relevant regulatory body such as AHPRA or membership of and adherence to professional standards, for example AASW for social workers
• Demonstrated effective leadership skills with experience in providing clinical leadership and supervision within a multi-disciplinary team.
• Experience providing a range of early intervention services to young people within a mental health setting including provision of group programs (minimum 3 years.
• Ability to work respectfully and collaboratively with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people, their families, communities, staff, and Aboriginal controlled organisations.

Note: The filling of this position is intended to constitute a special/equal opportunity measure under section 8(1) of the Racial Discrimination Act 1975 (Cth), section 57 of the Antidiscrimination Act 1996 (NT) and section 12 of the Equal Opportunity Act 2010.

Special Measures vacancies are open to everyone including Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people. However, Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander applicants will be granted priority consideration for this vacancy.

For further information on this exciting opportunity, please contact the Centre Manager on (08) 8912 4000.

Please note: It is a requirement that prior to commencing in this role, you must provide 100 points of identification to confirm Australian citizenship or eligibility to work in Australia; possess a Working with Children (Ochre Card), a current National Criminal History Check (within 3 months) and a valid NT driver’s licence.

As part of the recruitment process, you will be required to address the key selection criteria on the online application on the Anglicare NT website.

Experience of working closely with and having a strong understanding of Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander culture would be considered an advantage.

Anglicare NT is a Child Safe, Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) employer and strongly encourage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to apply.

A position description is attached.