Clinical Lead

Youturn; Gympie Regional; On-site; AUD 122,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

Youturn is seeking a Clinical Lead to provide clinical leadership for the Headspace Gympie site, overseeing a multidisciplinary team and ensuring youth-friendly, evidence-informed care for clients aged 12-25. The role emphasizes risk assessment, care coordination and service delivery across outreach locations.

The successful candidate will supervise staff, facilitate professional development, maintain high standards of governance and contribute to continuous improvement within Headspace Gympie

Qualifications

• Experience in youth mental health assessment, intervention and care planning.
• Clinical leadership, supervision and support of multidisciplinary teams.
• Ability to conduct biopsychosocial assessments and develop treatment plans.

Responsibilities

• Provide evidence-based clinical interventions for young people.
• Lead and supervise multidisciplinary clinical staff and students.
• Engage with families, carers and community partners to support care.

Skills

Youth mental health assessment

Clinical leadership

Care planning

Crisis risk management

Education

Tertiary qualifications in Psychology/Social Work/MH Nursing

Current professional registration (AHPRA/AASW)

Working with Children Check (Queensland)

Open Driver Licence

Job description

Salary: $122,433.00 - $125,438.00

Job Type: Full-Time Employee (FT)

Location: Gympie QLD

Job Category: Psychology, Counselling & Social Work (Healthcare & Medical)

About

The individuals, families and communities we support are at the heart of everything we do at Youturn. We listen deeply – honouring every voice, story, culture and choice – through our core values of Integrity, Respect and Inclusion. We have a strong commitment to reflection and responsibility and are always curious and adapting through our Learning value. At Youturn, we believe in the importance of caring today for a better tomorrow, represented in our value of Stewardship.

Youturn is a community-based not-for-profit charity providing social, community, and health services across Australia. With more than 35 years of experience, we are a trusted provider supporting individuals and communities through life’s toughest moments, empowering people of all ages to live safe, connected, and meaningful lives. With compassion and equity at our core, we support people in the areas of housing, community and family support, mental health, and support for those bereaved or impacted by suicide.

You can find out more at youturn.org.au .

Some leadership roles are about managing services ~ Others are about creating the conditions for young people to feel safe, supported, understood and connected to the right care at the right time.

As Youturn is the Lead Agency for headspace Gympie, we're seeking an experienced and passionate Clinical Lead to provide clinical leadership and oversight across the established service and its outreach locations.

This is a unique opportunity to be part of an exciting chapter for the service while building on the strong relationships, trusted reputation and foundations already established within the community.

Working alongside the Centre Manager, a multidisciplinary team, consortium partners, local providers and the broader community, you'll play a critical role in ensuring young people receive safe, evidence-informed, youth-friendly and culturally responsive care when they need it most.

Job Description

About Youturn

Youturn is a not-for-profit organisation established more than 30 years ago to address youth homelessness on the Sunshine Coast. Today it has evolved into a national organisation with a multidisciplinary team of professionals. Trusted to create safe, inclusive, and supportive communities, Youturn offers assistance to vulnerable people of all ages, during their most challenging times.

At Youturn, our overarching goal is to make a lasting impact in the lives of those we serve. Through our dedicated efforts and partnerships, we aspire to build a society where everyone has the opportunity to lead a fulfilling and dignified life.

Values Statement

Supporting young and vulnerable people in their time of need, is at the heart of what we do at Youturn. Our organisational culture is built on trusting relationships that are meaningful and inclusive. We listen to understand, we embrace diversity and we offer a safe space free from judgement.

To ensure our young and vulnerable people receive individualised support, we invest in team members who embody our values to foster a collaborative culture of excellence.

Position Summary

The role of the Clinical Lead position is to provide clinical leadership and oversight for the Headspace centre. This includes the provision of complex clinical case service delivery, professional leadership of the Access and Intake team, and supervision. The role is also tasked to effectively engage, screen, assess, refer and provide brief interventions and coordinate care for a caseload of young people aged 12-25 years who are clients of Headspace.

Key Responsibilities

Service Provision

• Provide evidence based clinical interventions including focused psychological strategies and psychological interventions to support young people presenting with a range of support needs.
• Review and improvement of clinical procedures and processes as required in response to clinical staff and client feedback.
• Provide consultation on a regular basis regarding child protection risk and reporting requirements.
• Develop and facilitate professional development sessions for the team in response to identified training needs in consultation with the Centre Manager.
• Relate to young people in a manner which is relevant and appropriate to their developmental and cognitive level of functioning and provide services in a youth friendly manner.
• Conduct bio-psychosocial assessments of young people presenting to the service, in accordance with the Headspace assessment framework, with a youth friendly and family-centered focus.
• Carry out assessments, case planning, delivery of therapeutic and/or psychoeducational interventions and care coordination for young people and their families.
• The opportunity to develop and co-facilitate psychoeducational, psychosocial, and therapeutic group programs.
• Conduct risk assessments including assessment of suicide risk and violence and provide follow up support, referrals, and treatment.
• Participate in outreach (travel), telehealth and home visit modes of service delivery for young people and their families.
• Monitor young people for critical changes and initiate appropriate emergency procedures.
• Refer young people to internal and external services as appropriate and provide follow up support.
• Facilitate and monitor the integration and coordination of care for Headspace clients, including the facilitation of and participation in intake, case review and relevant care coordination meetings.
• Provide interventions to a caseload of young people with moderate mental health presentations.
• Ensure that records/files are maintained in line with agreed protocols including performing clinical audits.
• Ensure effective communication with and involvement of staff, young people, their families/carers/kin, and friends in the delivery of service.
• Participate in the access and intake system, answering phone calls and enquiries, screening and assessing needs, prioritising, and making appropriate follow up appointments and referrals.
• Present clinical information to stakeholders on behalf of Headspace.

Leadership

• Provide clinical leadership, supervision and support to clinical workers and students on Clinical Placement as required to align systems and improve outcomes.
• Oversee the referral processes in and out of Headspace, providing a single point of entry for the service.
• Undertake clinical service provision to a complex client case load.
• Assist the Centre Manager in the collection and reporting of statistical information as required.
• Assist in the creation of an environment that promotes excellence in integrated youth health and support with a focus on youth participation, access, and family-focused care.
• Provide secondary mental health consultations and advice as required.
• Assist the Centre Manager to monitor high risk young people and ensure that appropriate assessment, management and follow up support/referral is provided, including when risk is escalated by staff of service.

General Duties

• Promote the program, communicate regularly with and build and maintain collaborative working relationships with program partners and all relevant stakeholders in the program.
• Maintain an open-minded and flexible approach to the work whilst maintaining the best practice principles contained within the Code of Conduct, policies and procedures of Youturn.
• Contribute to a positive representation of Youturn through supportive and positive working relationships with staff, young people, their families/carers/kin, stakeholders and the wider community.
• Participate in service staff meetings and professional development with the relevant Line Manager and other staff as appropriate.
• Participate in appropriate education to develop and maintain necessary knowledge and skills required to fulfil the responsibilities of the position.
• As an employee, work in a healthy and safe manner and encourage others to do the same; comply with all warning and safety signage; report or rectify any unsafe conditions; adhere to workplace health and safety policies and procedures.
• Perform other reasonable duties as directed, that are within the employee’s skill, competence, training and scope of the employee’s award classification.
• From time to time, Youturn may require you to work in areas that are not your normal work areas and perform functions that are outside of your usual duties. Youturn may require you to do this so long as you have the skills and training to perform the functions that are outside of your normal work areas or usual duties.

Desired Skills And Experience

Who We're Looking For

We're looking for a clinician who leads with both expertise and empathy.

Someone who can provide strong clinical direction while fostering genuine relationships with young people, families, colleagues and community partners.

Essential Qualifications

You will hold:

• Tertiary qualifications in Psychology, Social Work, Occupational Therapy, Mental Health Nursing, or another discipline recognised by headspace as an appropriately qualified mental health clinician.
• Current professional registration, accreditation or membership relevant to your discipline, including AHPRA registration or AASW membership/eligibility where applicable.
• Current Queensland Working with Children Check (or the ability to obtain).
• Current Open Driver Licence.

Essential Skills & Experience

You’ll bring demonstrated experience and capability in:

• Youth mental health assessment, intervention and care planning.
• Delivery of evidence-based therapeutic interventions for young people
• Clinical leadership, supervision and support of multidisciplinary teams.
• Clinical risk assessment, suicide risk management and crisis response.
• Alcohol and Other Drug (AOD) assessment, harm minimisation and integrated treatment approaches.
• Conducting comprehensive biopsychosocial assessments and developing treatment plans.
• Working collaboratively with families, carers and kin to support positive outcomes.
• Building effective relationships with community services, health providers and key stakeholders.
• Clinical governance, quality improvement and evidence-informed practice.

You’ll Stand Out If You Have

• Experience supporting young people in rural, regional or remote communities.
• Knowledge of local mental health, health and community service systems.
• Experience working within the headspace model or similar youth mental health environments.
• A strong understanding of social and emotional wellbeing approaches for First Nations young people and communities.

Why Join Youturn?

At Youturn, we're committed to empowering people to live safe, connected and meaningful lives. Every day, our teams work alongside individuals, families and communities to create opportunities for hope, healing and growth.

Joining Youturn Means You'll Have The Opportunity To

• Play a key leadership role in the next chapter of headspace Gympie.
• Influence clinical practice and service quality across the region.
• Support and develop a passionate multidisciplinary team.
• Work within a values-driven organisation that genuinely puts people at the centre of everything it does.
• Help create positive, life-changing outcomes for young people and their families.

If you're an experienced clinician who is passionate about youth mental health, collaborative leadership and building stronger communities, we'd love to hear from you.

Youturn is an Equal Opportunity Employer

At Youturn, we celebrate diversity and recognise the invaluable contribution that different experiences, cultures and perspectives bring to our organisation and the communities we serve.

We strongly encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, people from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) backgrounds, people with lived and living experience of mental health challenges, people living with disability, members of the LGBTQIA+ community, and people of all ages and backgrounds.

We are committed to creating a culturally safe, inclusive and welcoming workplace where everyone feels respected, valued and empowered to thrive. If you require adjustments throughout the recruitment process, we encourage you to let us know so we can support your participation.