Interested in speaking up about mental
health in your community?

Young people and headspace

The Youth Reference Group (YRG) is passionate young
people, volunteering their time to raise awareness of
mental health and wellbeing. Hailing from all Midcoast
Council areas and from a diverse range of backgrounds,
many of the YRG have experienced their own struggles
but overcome them to become advocates of youth mental
health.

The YRG makes sure that any new initiative from
headspace Taree will make a positive difference in the
lives of young people.

If you would like to get involved
headspacetaree@samaritans.org.au

The Opportunity:

headspace Taree team are a multidisciplinary team of professionals providing support to young people aged 12 – 25 years in the Hunter region. The Clinical Lead for headspace Taree has the responsibility for coordinating the clinical service delivery for young people accessing headspace.

The Clinical Lead will monitor clinical service quality and clinical outcomes, reporting on the client systems of headspace Taree. Understanding and maintaining Clinical Governance, policies and procedures is integral to this role. Providing clinical supervision to headspace salaried intake staff across both sites is required.

Essential Criteria  

• Tertiary degree in Psychology, Social Work, Nursing, Occupational Therapy or similar as well as substantial work experience in child and adolescent mental health settings
• Eligibility for membership of relevant professional association or membership of registration body or working towards same
• Demonstrated evidence based clinical skills in assessment and working with young people and their families/carers in a mental health and/ or drug and alcohol setting
• An understanding of the needs of young people with a mental illness, including engagement with the mental health service system.
• Ability to advocate for improved accessibility for young people across a number of service systems
• Ability to provide effective leadership and multi-disciplinary teamwork skills in relation to the management of risk within a youth mental health setting
• Ability to develop, manage and monitor performance outcomes for programs and activities
• Ability to provide formal and informal clinical supervision to staff that incorporates self - reflection and development.
• Highly developed interpersonal, public relations and communication skills, including sound oral and writing skills.
• An understanding of and commitment to Child Protection legislation and OH&S principles

Why work for us?

Our team are the heart of what we do here at Samaritans. As a part of the Samaritans team, you have access to the following great benefits:

• 14 weeks paid maternity leave or 3 weeks paid parental pay. + Super Contributions after 12 months
• Salary Packaging on a range of everyday living expenses (Mortgage, Rent and Bills), up to $611/fortnight
• Up to 40% on school enrolment fees at any of our Newcastle Anglican schools
• Meals & Entertainment Salary packaging up to $2,650 
• Access to Fitness Passport (over 300+gyms)
• Free access to our corporate Employee Assistance Program
• Flexible working options
• Career and development opportunities

Who we are?

Newcastle Anglican is at the core of some of the most well-known businesses within Newcastle, Hunter, Central Coast & Mid North Coast organisations. Our service agencies include Anglican Care and Samaritans as well as Newcastle Anglican Schools Corporation and 54 Anglican parishes.

For more information on who we are and the work we do, visit www.newcastleanglican.org.au . You can learn about our Vision, Values and Service Philosophy here via YouTube.

For further information please email our Talent Team at careers@newcastleanglican.org.au