Senior Clinician - headspace Early Psychosis

Senior Clinician, Mobile Assessment and Treatment Team (MATT)
headspace Early Psychosis (hEP) Canberra

Join a team redefining youth mental health

The role

- Full time 76 hours per fortnight, part time considered
- Based at headspace Canberra in Lyneham
- HPA Level 3 ($56.81 to $64.19 per hour) + Super
- Not-for-profit salary packaging benefits upto $18,500pa

Provide senior clinical leadership within a clearly defined structure. You set clinical standards, lift practice, and guide complex decisions within a shared team caseload model.

What you will do

- Deliver advanced assessment, formulation and intervention for complex and acute presentations, including crisis response and home-based community treatment
- Lead intake and triage, complete biopsychosocial, mental state and risk assessments, and drive timely clinical decision making for higher acuity presentations
- Coordinate assertive outreach for recent referrals and urgent presentations
- Provide assertive in reach to inpatient units to support early discharge and smooth transition to community care
- Liaise with emergency departments, inpatient teams, GPs, schools and community services
- Offer day to day clinical guidance, supervision and mentoring, and model best practice documentation and data quality
- Contribute to clinical governance including clinical review, incident response, workflow improvement and quality projects
- Maintain accurate EMR records and ensure timely collection of outcomes data

About the program

headspace Early Psychosis follows the Orygen EPPIC model and delivers coordinated care through

- Mobile Assessment and Treatment Team (MATT)
- Continuing Care Team (CCT)
- Functional Recovery Team (FRT)





In MATT you will work in a collaborative environment with structured supervision, regular multidisciplinary discussion and opportunities to shape service improvement.

About you

- Approved tertiary qualifications and professional registration as one of
- Registered Nurse with AHPRA
- Occupational Therapist with AHPRA
- Psychologist with AHPRA
- Social Worker with eligibility for AASW membership
- Three or more years of mental health experience, ideally including youth early psychosis and co-occurring alcohol and other drug concerns
- Proven ability to supervise and mentor and to influence practice toward consistent, high-quality care
- Strong engagement skills with young people and families, culturally safe practice, and capacity for flexible outreach
- Sound knowledge of ACT mental health and child safety legislation and commitment to ongoing professional development
- Flexibility to work primarily on site with some community-based work and to participate in a rotating roster if required by service needs

Why Uniting

- Salary packaging that lifts take home pay
- 4 Me Days – extra paid leave each year (pro rata) to rest, recharge, and focus on what matters most
- 4 CPD Days per calendar year (pro-rata Part time employees)
- Ongoing training and development, including cultural awareness training
- Real scope to make a difference for young people and families
- A collaborative and supportive team culture grounded in the values Compassionate, Respectful, Imaginative and Bold

Uniting is a Child Safe Organisation committed to promoting the safety, wellbeing and inclusion of children and young people.

Empowered by diversityAt Uniting, inclusion isn’t just something we value – it’s how we work. Our culture and practice reflect the vibrant diversity of our colleagues, and the clients and communities we serve.

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📌 Senior Clinician - headspace Early Psychosis (Canberra)
🏢 Uniting NSW & ACT
📍 Canberra