Clinical Lead

Join our team at our Medicare Mental Health Centre in Lismore We're currently seeking a Clinical Lead for a permanent part-time role (approximately four days per week), reporting directly to the Clinical Services Manager.

In this leadership position, you'll oversee the coordination and delivery of high-quality, evidence-based clinical services and psychological interventions tailored to the unique needs of our clients. Alongside providing direct client care, you'll supervise both clinical and non-clinical staff to ensure exceptional service delivery. To support effective supervision, the Clinical Lead will maintain a 0.5 caseload.

**Benefits to you**:

- Access to generous Salary Packaging, including $15,990 tax free as well as $2,500 for meal and entertainment and novated leasing
- Rewards program that offers discounts on hundreds of household brands.
- Providing team-based provision of service for people under a flexible practice model.
- Working in a vibrant centre and joining existing managers to lead staff who are passionate about working in mental health.
- Individual and group supervision.
- Professional development and training opportunities.
- Reception and administrative support.
- Consulting rooms, activity space and resources.
- External supervision allowance.
- Gym membership included.

**One a day-to-day basis you will be**:

- Provide client-centred psychological care through assessments and evidence-based interventions, involving families and significant others where appropriate
- Supervise and manage 6 - 8 staff (social workers, mental health nurses, or counsellors), and oversee on-site student supervision
- Collaborate within a multidisciplinary team, including subcontractors and in-kind service providers
- Build and maintain strong relationships with external stakeholders to support integrated service delivery
- Maintain high-quality client records and participate in case reviews, supervision, peer reflection, and team meetings, ensuring ethical and legislative compliance

**About you**:
Are you a professional, innovative, and caring clinician who thrives as part of a multi-disciplinary team, and enjoys working with a wide range of external stakeholders involved in providing health, mental health, and psychosocial services and has leadership experience?

**We’re also looking for**:

- Tertiary qualifications in a relevant clinical discipline (e.g. psychology, social work, occupational therapy, nursing), with registration through AHPRA, AASW, or equivalent
- Demonstrated experience delivering inclusive, high-quality therapeutic services focused on mental health and well-being, using solution-focused approaches
- Proficiency in clinical assessment, formulation, diagnosis, and evidence-based psychological treatment of mental health disorders
- Experience in conducting risk assessments, implementing risk management plans, and delivering crisis interventions
- Strong interpersonal and decision-making skills, with the ability to engage staff, clients, families, and significant others in collaborative service delivery; specialist training in complex disorders is desirable

**If this sounds like you this is what you will need to get started**:

- Current open Driver Licence.
- Police Check that has been completed within the last three months.
- Current Working with Children Check (Blue Card) or ability to hold one.

Be part of an exciting time of growth and opportunity in an organisation that you can be proud of being a part of.
- Open Minds acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of the lands on which we all work, live and play on. We pay our respects to the Elders past and present and extend that respect to all First Nations Peoples. We reflect upon the millions of footprints that are embedded into the earth from our Ancestors, the pathways that were forged, the meaning they leave behind and the continuation of the traditions through the next generations._

Pay: $110,000.00 - $115,000.00 per year

Work Location: In person