Clinical Lead - Trauma-Informed Mental Health (FDSV)

Leadership Role | Relocation Support Available | Not-for-Profit Salary Packaging

Mars Recruitment is partnering with a highly respected not-for-profit health organisation to recruit an experienced Clinical Lead for a specialist Family, Domestic & Sexual Violence (FDSV) Mental Health Program.

This is a pivotal leadership role overseeing clinical governance, service delivery, and team development within a trauma-informed, recovery-oriented service supporting victim-survivors and their families. You'll lead a multidisciplinary team of clinicians while remaining clinically engaged, ensuring best-practice, culturally safe, and evidence-based care.
This role offers the opportunity to shape service delivery, lead clinical excellence, and make a genuine impact within a highly supported and progressive organisation.

The Opportunity

As Clinical Lead, you will provide clinical leadership, supervision, and governance, while supporting clinicians delivering trauma-informed mental health therapies to individuals and families impacted by FDSV.
This role blends strategic leadership, clinical excellence, team development, and stakeholder collaboration, while maintaining a reduced clinical caseload.

Key Highlights:

• Lead a specialist trauma-informed mental health service
• Provide clinical supervision, mentoring & governance
• Oversee evidence-based, culturally safe service delivery
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams and community partners
• Maintain a reduced clinical caseload

Key Responsibilities

• Provide clinical leadership to a multidisciplinary mental health team
• Deliver and oversee trauma-informed, recovery-oriented therapy
• Lead clinical governance, quality assurance, audits & compliance
• Provide advanced clinical supervision and mentoring
• Support early career clinicians and provisional psychologists
• Develop and implement service strategies and clinical standards
• Engage with cultural and lived-experience reference groups
• Build collaborative relationships with key community stakeholders

About You

You will be an experienced mental health clinician and clinical leader, passionate about trauma-informed care, team development, and service excellence.

Essential Criteria:

• Full AHPRA or AASW registration (Psychology, Mental Health Nursing, MH Social Work)
• Extensive experience delivering trauma-informed mental health therapies
• Strong background in FDSV clinical service delivery
• Demonstrated clinical supervision and leadership experience
• Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills
• Ability to manage clinical governance, risk, and quality frameworks
• Driver's licence and willingness to travel locally

What's On Offer

This organisation offers one of the strongest benefit packages in the not-for-profit sector, alongside a highly supportive and values-driven culture.

Benefits Include:

• Not-for-profit salary packaging:
  • $15,900 tax-free living expenses
  • $2,650 meals & entertainment
• Relocation allowance + short-term accommodation
• Novated leasing options
• Professional Development Leave + CPD support
• Wellness & Birthday Leave
• Purchased Leave & Deferred Salary Schemes
• Income Protection Insurance
• Airline lounge membership

Why This Role?

This is a rare opportunity to step into a senior clinical leadership position where your work directly supports recovery, resilience, and long-term outcomes for individuals and families impacted by trauma.
You'll join a highly values-driven organisation that genuinely prioritises staff wellbeing, professional growth, and service excellence.

Ready to Learn More?

For a confidential discussion, please feel free to reach out to Mike Kuczer - mike.kuczer@marsrecruitment.com.au