Clinical Lead | Youth Mental Health
📍 Geraldton, WA | 💰 From $120,000 + Super + Salary Packaging
Ready to take the next step in your mental health career and lead a passionate team making a difference in young people's lives?
We are working with a respected, community-based organisation delivering specialist mental health services to young people across regional Western Australia. With a strong focus on early intervention, recovery-oriented practice and collaborative care, the organisation provides vital support to young people navigating complex mental health challenges.
We are seeking an experienced Clinical Lead to provide clinical leadership, supervision and support within an established not for profit youth mental health service based in Geraldton.
🌟 What's on offer?
- Salary from $120,000 + Superannuation
- Generous salary packaging benefits
- Full-time, fixed-term position until 30 June 2027
- Opportunity to lead and mentor a multidisciplinary clinical team
- A rewarding balance of clinical leadership and direct client work
- Supportive, collaborative and purpose-driven workplace
- Opportunity to contribute to the development and delivery of high-quality youth mental health services
🧠 About the role
As Clinical Lead, you will play a key role in ensuring the delivery of safe, effective and evidence-based mental health care to young people accessing the service. You will provide clinical oversight and supervision while maintaining a caseload of young people presenting with complex mental health needs.
Key responsibilities include:
- Providing clinical supervision, mentoring and guidance to mental health clinicians
- Managing a caseload of young people with complex mental health presentations
- Facilitating multidisciplinary case reviews and clinical discussions
- Supporting clinical risk assessment, formulation and treatment planning
- Promoting best-practice, trauma-informed and recovery-oriented approaches
- Building strong working relationships with external mental health services and community stakeholders
- Supporting clinical quality, consistency and continuous service improvement
- Encouraging a positive, collaborative and supportive team culture
👤 About you
We are looking for a confident and experienced mental health professional with strong clinical leadership skills and a genuine passion for supporting young people.
Ideally, you will bring:
- Tertiary qualifications in Psychology, Social Work OR Occupational Therapy
- Relevant professional registration or accreditation (AHPRA or AASW required)
- Extensive experience delivering mental health assessments and therapeutic interventions - minimum 5 years experience
- Demonstrated experience managing complex clinical presentations and risk
- Experience providing clinical supervision, mentoring or leadership
- Australian working rights - Working holiday visa's welcome!
- Strong knowledge of trauma-informed, recovery-oriented and person-centred practice
- Excellent stakeholder engagement and multidisciplinary collaboration skills
📩 Interested?
If you're an experienced mental health clinician looking to step into a leadership role, or an established Clinical Lead seeking a rewarding new opportunity, we'd love to hear from you.
Click APPLY now or contact Danielle at MARS Recruitment for a confidential discussion - danielle.richards@marsrecuitment.com.au 💌
For additional information about Danielle Richards at Mars Healthcare and why you should choose her as your preferred Recruitment Consultant and Allied Health Expert, click here to view her LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielle-richards-069a55225/
