Clinical Lead - Youth Mental Health

About the role

Youturn, a not-for-profit organisation founded more than 30 years ago to address youth homelessness on the Sunshine Coast and now operating nationally, is seeking a Clinical Lead for its Headspace centre. The role provides clinical leadership and oversight, including complex clinical case service delivery, leading the Access and Intake team and supervising staff. It involves engaging, screening, assessing, referring and providing brief interventions for young people aged 12-25.

Key responsibilities

• Deliver evidence-based clinical interventions, including focused psychological strategies, and review clinical procedures in response to staff and client feedback
• Provide regular consultation on child protection risk and reporting requirements
• Develop and run professional development sessions for the team with the Centre Manager
• Conduct bio-psychosocial assessments, case planning and care coordination using the Headspace assessment framework
• Run risk assessments including suicide risk and violence, and provide follow-up support and referrals
• Take part in outreach, telehealth and home visits, and monitor young people for critical changes
• Facilitate intake, case reviews and care coordination meetings, and refer clients internally and externally
• Provide interventions to a caseload of young people with moderate mental health presentations
• Maintain records and files according to protocol, including clinical audits
• Lead clinical supervision of clinical workers and students on clinical placement, oversee referrals in and out of Headspace, and assist the Centre Manager with statistics and monitoring of high-risk young people
• Represent Headspace clinically to stakeholders and take part in staff meetings and professional development