Clinical Lead

Posted: 16/05/2025

Closing Date: 01/06/2025

Salary: $115,065.00 - $119,871.00

Job Type: Permanent - Part Time

Location: Kaurna Country, Northern Adelaide Medicare Mental Health Centre

Job Category: Healthcare & Medical

**Who are we?**

Sonder is an inclusive, not-for-profit organisation that has been providing better quality health and support services to the South Australian community since 1993. We support thousands of people each year to access services across seven key domains - Mental Health, Aboriginal Health, Alcohol and/or other Drugs, Employment, Community Health, Disability, and Homelessness

**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**:Part-Time (0.8FTE)

**Contract**:Ongoing

**Location**:Northern Adelaide Medicare Mental Health Centre

**About the Role**:
Join the Northern Adelaide Medicare Mental Health Centre (NAMMHC) as a Clinical Lead, where you’ll play a key role in coordinating and delivering high-quality primary mental health care. Working alongside the Clinical Care Coordination Lead, you'll provide clinical oversight and support for short to medium-term care services, helping clients in psychological distress or crisis. This leadership role offers the chance to shape service delivery, supervise a dedicated team, maintain a clinical caseload, and promote mental health services in the community. Make a meaningful impact in a welcoming, low-stigma environment designed to provide accessible, timely, and effective mental health support.

**Experience Requirements**:

- Demonstrated experience working within a fast-paced environment;
- Minimum of five (5) years clinical practice in mental health treatment and care, preferably providing therapeutic treatment and/or case management and support
- Experience in working and supporting Peer Practice workforce
- Proven experience at a senior clinical level within the area of mental health service delivery
- Experience in successfully leading/coordinating a team of staff and working as a member of a multi-disciplinary team with the ability to inspire and facilitate team commitment and cooperation
- Demonstrated experience in preparation of reports with recommendations.
- Experience working across a range of Commonwealth and State funded mental health programs and ensuring program implementation in line with funding requirements and contracts

**Qualification and Other Requirements**:

- Approved tertiary qualification in an allied health discipline, including social work, psychology or mental health nursing*
- Membership of an appropriate professional body. Social Workers are required to be eligible for full membership with AASW. Psychologists, Mental Health Nurses, and Occupational Therapists are required to have full registration with AHPRA.
- Relevant Leadership or Management Training is desired
- Current or willing to obtain a Working with Children's Check (WWCC)
- *Psychologist / Clinical Psychologist_
- Approved Masters or equivalent in psychology, with experience of two (2) years or more in clinical mental health settings preferably community based.
- Registered as a psychologist with AHPRA.
- Clinical Psychologist_
- To be recognised as a clinical psychologist, personnel must meet requirements to have practice endorsement with the Psychology Board of Australia in specialist area of practice of clinical psychology.
- Mental Health Nurse_
- Mental Health Nurses must be accredited with the Australian College of Mental Health Nurses.
- Experience of two (2) years or more in clinical mental health settings preferably community based.
- Social Worker_
- Accreditation as a Mental Health Social Worker with the Australian Association of Social Workers (AASW).
- Experience of two (2) years or more in clinical mental health settings preferably community based.
- Occupational Therapist_
- Registered as an Occupational Therapist with AHPRA.
- Approved degree from a recognised School of Occupational Therapy.
- Experience of two (2) years or more in clinical mental health settings preferably community based.

**How to apply**:
Expiry Date: 1 June 2025