Clinical Lead

About Us:
Anglicare Sydney is a leading and highly regarded community NFP organisation in Australia.

Our vision is to see Jesus Christ honoured, lives enriched and communities strengthened. To achieve this, we are looking to attract the most capable and mission aligned people to join us.

For over 160 years Anglicare has been serving people in need
- providing care to older people and services to the vulnerable. We began because of people who saw a need in the community and who were compelled to make a difference. People motivated by Christian love and a passion to serve. If this describes you, we would love to invite you to join us

Clinical Lead | (FDSV) Supporting Recovery | Liverpool & Campbelltown

Anglicare and CatholicCare have collaborated to deliver life-changing program called Supporting Recovery. As mission-aligned organisations, Anglicare and CatholicCare care about people and our mission is to make a genuine difference in the lives of people in the community.

The Supporting Recovery program delivers Family, Domestic and Sexual Violence (FDSV) trauma-informed mental health care services within South West Sydney to support victim-survivors in their longer-term recovery.

Key elements of the service include:

- Victim-survivors of FDSV and their families have free access for up to 2 years to evidence-based trauma informed mental health care.
- Provision of psychological therapies and other appropriate wellbeing and social interventions.
- Collaborations with other services to facilitate coordination of care and assist with referral pathways.
- Community engagement activities to increase community awareness.

Purpose of the role:
To ensure clinical standards of the program are consistent with the Supporting Recovery Model of Care and best practice standards in supporting FDSV victim-survivors. This includes providing training and supervision to Supporting Recovery program staff.

The role will also include some direct client service in aid of the program’s purpose of providing family, domestic and sexual violence (FDSV) trauma-informed mental health care services, including psychological therapies.

This is a Max Term (till June 2026), Part Time role (3days a week) based at Liverpool with a requirement to travel across the south-western region.

Key Responsibilities (not limited to):

- Ensure the program’s delivery of best practice psychological therapies and wellbeing interventions.
- Ensure all program staff are well supported with appropriate clinical supervision and professional development.
- Provide guidance, mentorship and oversight to team members on the management of complex and high needs clients within agreed service areas and in line with expertise and qualifications.
- Conduct regular reviews of client case notes, client assessment processes, data collection and reporting processes, and engage with staff to maintain organisational and professional quality and compliance standards.
- Provide trauma-informed mental health care services to victim-survivors of FDSV.
- Given the nature of the program/services, additional hours of work may be required.
- Ensure services are welcoming, accessible, compassionate, person-centred, trauma informed, culturally safe and inclusive of all who present. Include perspectives of First Nations peoples, people with disability, members of LGBTQIA+ communities and people from CALD communities.
- Work collaboratively with Local Care Team, Catholic Care colleagues and external stakeholders to ensure a positive experience for program clients.
- Establish collaborations and partnerships with organisations including other SWSPHN commissioned mental health and alcohol and other drugs services.
- Ensure services are consistent with the Supporting Recovery Model of Care.
- Collaborate with Anglicare Clinical Lead - Children and Young People and Catholic Care Clinical Leads to develop program clinical governance standards and staff professional development initiatives.
- Adhere to program risk management framework to identify and mitigate program risks.
- Contribute to the safety culture by keeping the workplace complying with safe work practices and support other team members to comply with safe work practices.

Qualifications, Skills and Experience needed:

- Tertiary degree qualification applicable to role - i.e. Psychology, Counselling, Social Work, Nursing or similar.
- Substantial experience working with clients who have experienced trauma related to FDSV (mandatory).
- Registration with relevant professional body - i.e. minimum level 4 ACA, PACFA Clinical, APHRA, AASW mental health social worker accreditation.
- Supervision registration with relevant professional body.
- Police check and valid NSW WWCC.
- Current NSW Driver’s Licence.
- Previous relevant training and experience supporting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, and CALD clients (essential).

Our vision is to see Jesus Christ honoured, lives enriched, and communities strengthened.