Clinical Lead headspace

Flourish Australia; Broken Hill; On-site; AUD 112,000 - 143,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Tax-Free Salary Packaging

Flexible working conditions

Working from home arrangements

Professional development and training

Employee Assistance Program

Relocation assistance

Job summary

Flourish Australia, operating the headspace Broken Hill centre, seeks a Clinical Lead to supervise daily clinical operations and lead service development for youth aged 12-25 and their families. The role blends governance, supervision, and direct clinical work to deliver high-quality, recovery‑oriented care.

You will work with the Senior Clinical Manager to ensure best practice, accreditation compliance, and continuous quality improvement within a supportive multidisciplinary team.

Qualifications

• Minimum three years post-qualification experience delivering mental health assessments and evidence-based interventions.
• Maintain membership of the appropriate professional body.
• Demonstrated advanced skills in delivering clinical services to young people and/or mental health programs, including crisis response.
• Ability to engage in multidisciplinary/cross-sector partnerships.

Responsibilities

• Oversee day-to-day clinical operations of the service as a member of the leadership team.
• Oversee processes for case planning and coordination for young people and families accessing headspace.
• Monitor risk for young people and develop action plans to mitigate identified risks.
• Provide assessments and evidence-based interventions, including group work, with young people and families.
• Conduct intake assessments, bio-psychosocial assessments, and use outcome measures to inform care plans.

Skills

Clinical leadership

Risk assessment

Multidisciplinary collaboration

Stakeholder engagement

Job description

Flourish Australia has an exciting opportunity for a motivated Clinical Leadto oversee the day to day clinical operationsat theheadspace Broken Hill centre.

The position is:

• Full-time(76 hours per fortnight)

• Based in Broken Hill

• Working Monday to Friday

• $111,900 - $143,400 (commensurate with experience & qualifications) + Super + Tax-Free Salary Packaging!

About the Opportunity

As the headspace Clinical Lead, you will provide leadership and oversight of clinical services, ensuring that young people aged 12-25 and their families receive high-quality, evidence-based, and recovery-orientated care. This role combines clinical governance, supervision and service development with direct clinical work, including complex assessments and therapeutic interventions. The Clinical Lead works closely with the Senior Clinical Manager to implement best practice, contribute to continuous quality improvement, and maintain compliance with accreditation and safeguarding requirements.

Your main responsibilities as the Clinical Lead will include (but are not limited to):

• Working as a member of the leadership team to oversee the day-to-day clinical operation of the service.

• Oversee processes to ensure appropriate case planning and coordination for young people and their families accessingheadspace.

• Assertively monitor young people where risk is indicated, including regularly assessing the current level of risk and developing action plans to mitigate any risks

• Provide assessments and evidence-based interventions, including group interventions, with young people (and their families/carers) accessing headspace.

• Undertake a range of assessments of young people and their families/carers as appropriate, including intake assessments, initial bio-psychosocial assessments, assessments of functioning, outcome measures, and symptom severity measures.

• Work collaboratively with the young person and their families to develop individual recovery plans and/or service plans including relevant interventions that are person-centred and directed by the young person as much as possible.

Selection Criteria

• Minimum three years post-qualification experience delivering mental health assessments and evidence based interventions

• Maintain membership of the appropriate professional body.

• Demonstrated advanced skills in the delivery of clinical services to young people and/or providing mental health services or programs, including being able to respond to crisis and high-risk situations, when required.

• Demonstrated ability to engage in multidisciplinary and/or cross sector initiatives, and partnerships with a wide range of professionals, organisations and stakeholders.

• Experience providing clinical supervision and clinical leadership within a multidisciplinary team.

About the Benefits

• Level 4 (HPSS)on the Flourish Australia Enterprise Agreement 2018

• Tax-Free Salary Packagingavailable up to $15,900

• Generous leave provisions including

  17.5% leave loading

  • 2 additional days of personal leave
  • Flourish Australia Day
  • paid primary carer parental leave
  • purchased annual leave program
  • accrued days off

• Family-friendly andflexible working conditions

• Working from home arrangements

• Opportunities forprofessional developmentand training

• Supported External Supervision

• Relocation Assistance (where applicable)

• Opportunities forcareer progression,professional development and training such as Mental Health First Aid,ACT, CBT courses and ASIST

• Employee Assistance Programfor confidential wellbeing support

• Regularsupervision (reflective practice), ongoing 1:1mentoring, strongteam supportand acomprehensive inductionprogram

• Workplace Community Groupssuch as ourRainbow Networkfor LGBTQ+ staff members & allies andYarnUpfor Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander staff members

• Personalfleet pricing discounts with our preferred automotive supplier & access to novated leasing

• Employee discounts atover 400+ popular retailers (Woolworths, Expedia, Myer, Kmart etc)

• Quarterly Reward and Recognition Awards

About headspace and Flourish Australia

headspace is the National Youth Mental Health Foundation supporting young people aged 12-25 years with their mental & general health care needs. One in four young people have experienced a mental health issue in the past 12 months – a higher prevalence than all other age groups.

headspaceprovidesearly intervention mental health services to young peoplewho present with mental health issues, along with assistance in promoting young peoples’ wellbeing.headspacebrings together local health services under the one roof making it easier for young people and their families to find the information they need.

Flourish Australiahas a long and proud history of providing recovery-oriented mental health servicesin Australia.Our services are comprehensive and highly personalised because each person’s experience will be different and their needs, as an individual, are unique. Together we set goals, connect individuals with the right people, support services and opportunities to meet their needs.

Our positions are opento all suitably qualified applicants. We have a strong commitment to participation of people with lived experience of mental health issues in our workforce.We value diversity and encourage applications from suitably qualified people from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander backgrounds, people from Culturally and Linguistically Diverse communities, LGBTQ+ communities and mature age candidates.