Team Leader

**Employment Type**: Temporary Full Time (contract until 30 June 2026)
**Location**: Negotiable within Southern NSW Health LHD
**Position Classification**:
**Remuneration**: Dependent Upon Qualifications
Clinical Nurse Specialist Gde 2: $113,243.15 to $116,963.48 per annum
Clinical Psychologist: $109,247 to $133,156 per annum
Senior Psychologist: $119,206 to $129,171 per annum
Occupational Therapist Level 4: $121,658 - $124,607 per annum
Social Worker Level 4: $121,658 - $124,607 per annum
**Hours Per Week**: 38
**Requisition ID**: REQ578242
**Applications Close**: 7 June 2025
**Interviews Details**:Interviews will be scheduled within 10 days of closing date

Southern NSW Local Health District covers a large area of the southern half of NSW. Surrounding the ACT on three sides and all the way down to the Victorian border, it extends from the pristine beaches of the NSW South Coast, the farmlands of the Southern Tablelands, across the picturesque Great Dividing Range and the spectacular Snowy Mountains. We have 18 facilities and our hospitals take care of more than 200,000 people. As we are a major local employer, our staff are a part of our local communities. To find out more on what it is like to live and work in Southern NSW LHD click here
We Are Southern

**What we offer**
- Salary Packaging - up to $9k for living expenses + $2.6k meal & entertainment + Novated leasing
- Corporate Health and Fitness program
- 11.5% Superannuation on top of your gross income
- Annual Leave Loading

**Where you'll be working**
There is an abundance of lifestyle benefits available to you in country NSW and you will be amazed at what you will have access to - and it all comes without the queues and crowds of a big city, enviable lifestyles and affordable property surrounded by an eclectic mix of small towns and villages. Canberra or Sydney is just a short drive away, you can enjoy all the attractions of a big city. Connect easily and quickly with the world through the Canberra International Airport, or Sydney domestic and International Airport with the beach and ski fields just 2 hours away. Imagine Rural

**What you'll be doing**

The YMHI Team Leader will provide trauma informed, culturally safe, intensive therapeutic interventions and integrated psychosocial responses to young people and their families experiencing complex and severe mental health concerns. They will also provide clinical leadership, support and supervision to multidisciplinary SNSWLHD community mental health and headspace staff to ensure the delivery of strengths based and recovery orientated mental health care and treatment.

The YMHI Team Leader will be responsible for embedding effective clinical governance processes in the YMHI service. The Youth Mental Health Initiative (YMHI) is a new youth mental health service that aims to improve early access to care for 12 - 25 years presenting to headspace services with severe and complex mental health needs. The YMHI will enhance youth mental health supports in Southern NSW by improving integration across services.

The YMHI Team Leader will be part of the local specialist Southern NSW Local Health District (SNSWLHD) Community Mental Health teams, with time co-located within the headspace centres. The YMHI Team Leader will work together with headspace to enhance youth mental health pathways and services to enhance youth mental health pathways and services. This will be achieved by collaborating with partner agencies, developing streamlined referral pathways and ensuring timely transition of care between the partner services.

**Selection Criteria**
- Relevant tertiary qualifications and current registration with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) for Registered Nurses, Occupational Therapists or Psychologists, or eligibility for membership of the Australian Association of Social Workers (AASW) for Social Workers. Noting significant clinical experience in child and youth mental health is highly desirable - See Essential Criteria 1 (in Position Description) for additional information.
- Extensive experience as a clinician in providing advanced assessment and evidence based therapeutic interventions to young people and their families with severe and/or complex mental health needs.
- Demonstrated leadership in the planning, implementation, management and evaluation of local youth mental health service delivery to accomplish service goals and improved consumer care and outcomes.
- Demonstrated skills in partnership development and negotiation with a wide range of service providers and well-developed understanding of the interface between services.
- Highly developed interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills and competence in the use of information technology systems.
- Ability to initiate, lead, complete and share quality improvement initiatives and service evaluation processes with other staff including providing clinical supervision as required.
- Evidence of a current unres