About us

Clean Slate Clinic isn’t your average health service. We’re a telehealth social enterprise smashing the barriers - geography, cost, stigma - that stop people from accessing alcohol and other drug recovery care. With a purpose-driven team and clinician-led programs, we're on a mission to help thousands achieve long-term recovery. This is healthcare built for dignity, access, and scale

Who we are looking for

We’re looking for a senior, hands-on People leader who has helped scale an organisation through a meaningful period of growth.

You’ll be equally comfortable shaping people strategy with the executive team and getting into the details yourself, whether that means improving onboarding, resolving an employee issue, implementing an HR system or helping a manager navigate a difficult conversation.

You’ll know how to introduce structure without unnecessary bureaucracy and will be energised by the opportunity to build Clean Slate’s People function from the ground up.

Because Clean Slate operates with a highly autonomous, distributed team, you’ll need to understand how to create strong culture, accountability and employee connection without relying on traditional management layers.

You have

- 8 to 10 years of broad People, HR or People & Culture experience
- Experience owning or significantly building a People function within a growing organisation
- Strong knowledge of Australian employment law, Modern Awards and employee relations
- Experience across performance, recruitment, onboarding, learning and organisational development
- Experience supporting a distributed or remote workforce
- A strong track record of designing practical People processes that improve performance without creating unnecessary bureaucracy
- Experience implementing or significantly improving HR systems




- Solid judgement and the confidence to advise senior leaders on complex People matters
- The ability and appetite to remain highly hands-on

Strongly Preferred:

- Experience in a high-growth startup, scale-up or similarly fast-changing organisation
- Experience supporting organisations of roughly 100 to 500 employees
- International People experience across more than one employment jurisdiction
- Experience building learning, capability or internal academy programmes
- Experience building recruitment and workforce-planning capability
- Experience with Employment Hero
- Organisational design experience
- Experience developing leadership programmes
- Exposure to rapidly scaling venture-backed organisations

You will

- Own and progressively build Clean Slate’s People function
- Build scalable recruitment, onboarding and employee lifecycle processes
- Lead the implementation and ongoing development of Employment Hero
- Develop performance management systems that reinforce accountability, autonomy and high performance
- Build learning and development programmes, including mandatory clinical training and the Clinical Academy
- Partner with leaders on workforce planning, organisational design and future capability requirements
- Provide practical advice across employee relations, performance and employment compliance
- Ensure compliance with relevant Modern Awards and Australian employment requirements




- Develop initiatives that strengthen culture and engagement across a distributed workforce
- Support managers to become stronger people leaders
- Improve People reporting, data and operational processes
- Help Clean Slate prepare its People infrastructure for continued domestic and international growth

What success looks like In your first month, you’ll build a clear understanding of Clean Slate’s workforce, culture, clinical operating model and immediate People priorities. You’ll review existing employment practices, recruitment and onboarding processes, training requirements, performance systems and HR technology, while building strong relationships with the executive team and wider organisation.

Over the following months, you’ll begin implementing the infrastructure required for the next stage of growth. Recruitment and onboarding will become more repeatable, Employment Hero will be embedded, mandatory training and the Clinical Academy will progress, and managers will have stronger frameworks for performance and employee development.

Over time, you’ll establish a scalable People function that allows Clean Slate to continue growing without losing its autonomy, pace or mission-led culture.

The team

You will be reporting to Katharine Crook, COO.

The benefits

- Competitive base salary
- Fully remote working with access to co-working spaces
- High ownership and autonomy
- Exposure to founders and senior leadership
- The chance to work on a genuinely meaningful problem with real-world impact

We believe that diversity is critical to our success. We will not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, or marital, veteran, or disability status.

📌 Head of People (Melbourne)
🏢 Clean Slate Clinic
📍 Melbourne