Social Worker

Posted: 28/10/2025

Closing Date: 12/11/2025

Salary: $100,786.02 - $105,350.50

Job Type: Permanent - Full Time

Location: Kaurna Country, Sonder & headspace Edinburgh North

Job Category: Healthcare & Medical

**Who are we?**

headspace is Australia’s leading youth mental health organisation, providing a range of comprehensive services for young people aged 12 - 25 years. headspace centres act as a one-stop-shop for young people who are seeking support with mental health, physical and sexual health, work and study, or alcohol and/or other drug use.

Sonder is the lead agency of headspace Adelaide, headspace Edinburgh North, headspace Marion and headspace Onkaparinga.

**What benefits can we offer?**

When you work with Sonder, you become part of the Sonder family and that provides you with a number of benefits such as:

- Salary (excluding super) paid above award and reviewed annually
- Flexible working arrangements
- Professional development allowance provided yearly
- Generous salary packaging options - increase your take home pay by 6-12%
- 17.5% Leave Loading
- Modern and welcoming office spaces
- Christmas Closure Bonus Leave (above annual leave entitlements)
- Training opportunities
- Meal & entertainment allowances
- Paid parental leave, and much more

Sonder are open to negotiating further benefits with the successful applicant to ensure an excellent working environment for you.

**Hours**:Full-time (1 FTE)

**Contract**:Ongoing

**Location**:Kaurna Country, headspace Edinburgh North

**About the Role**:
Join the dedicated team at headspace Edinburgh North, where you’ll play a key role in supporting young people aged 12-25 to improve their mental health and wellbeing. As a Mental Health Clinician, you’ll work within a multidisciplinary team to deliver focused, evidence-based psychological interventions in a welcoming, youth-friendly environment. You’ll provide specialist triage, assessment, and care coordination for young people, deliver individual and group therapy using evidence-based approaches, and develop engaging group programs that support mental health recovery. Working collaboratively with GPs, psychologists, and other allied health professionals, you’ll also participate in supervision, team meetings, and stakeholder collaboration, and connect clients and families with additional supports and community services when needed.

At headspace Edinburgh North, led by Sonder, you’ll be part of a supportive and passionate team committed to making a real difference in the lives of young people, with opportunities for professional development, clinical supervision, and meaningful impact every day.

**Experience Requirements**:

- Demonstrated experience working within a fast-paced environment
- Experience in the provision of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and/or other evidence-based therapies with young people aged 12-25 who have a mental health disorder
- Demonstrated experience, knowledge and skills in involving young people in their own care and of inclusive practice principles
- Demonstrated experience, knowledge and skills in family inclusive practice
- Demonstrated experience, knowledge and skills in delivering age and developmentally appropriate care.

**Qualification and Other Requirements**:

- Social Work Qualification - with Mental Health Accreditation through the Australian Association of Social Workers (AASW)
- Current or willing to obtain a Working with Children's Check (WWCC)
- Current or willing to obtain a National Police Check (NPC)

**How to apply**:
**Advert Closing Date: Wednesday 12 November 2025