About Us

Anglicare NT is a respected provider of quality human services across urban, regional, and remote area. Anglicare NT offers a range of career opportunities in the community and social services sector in a diverse range of fields such as children and youth, family relationships and counselling, out of home care, refugee and migrant, corporate services, financial counselling, mental health, disability and home care, social enterprises, and specialist homelessness services.

Anglicare NT offers great benefits, including a commitment to further training and development options, flexible working conditions, five (5) week’s annual leave and a strengths-based environment. We also offer great salary packaging options that can significantly increase your take-home pay.

Our motto of Hope, Kindness, Respect, Fairness, and Integrity articulates our values of cultural respect, social justice, and partnership. By living our values, we work to achieve excellent outcomes and make a lasting difference in the lives of Territorians.

About the Position

You will provide clinical leadership and support to the headspace Palmerston team to deliver youth friendly, effective, flexible and evidence-based interventions to young people and their families. You will provide direct clinical care to young people who are experiencing mild to moderate mental health issues and clinical supervision to clinicians, Social and Emotional Wellbeing Workers and Peer Support Workers.

The Clinical Lead has overall responsibility for providing clinical leadership and ensuring that day-to-day clinical operations (inclusive of outreach work) are carried out in an effective way that meets the needs of young people, families and friends. The Clinical Lead will support the headspace Palmerston Centre Manager to ensure the efficient delivery of clinical care whilst managing referrals and enhancing relationships with private practitioners. In addition, the Clinical Lead will be required to engage in quality improvement activities which includes having an in-depth understanding of the headspace Model Integrity Framework (hMIF) and ensuring all Primary Mental Health Services staff are operating in accordance to the headspace Model of Care.

headspace Palmerston is a satellite service. The term ‘satellite’ refers to a headspace service which provides a reduced range of services and is linked to a surrounding parent headspace centre (i.e. headspace Darwin). You will be responsible in supporting the ongoing collaboration and integration between headspace Palmerston and headspace Darwin. You will uphold the values of Anglicare NT and provide quality services within the scope of the position and associated delegations.

You will uphold the values of Anglicare NT and provide quality services within the scope of the position and associated delegations.

Please note: It is a requirement that prior to commencing in this role, you must possess a Working with Children (Ochre Card), a National Criminal History Check (within 3 months)and a current Northern Territory driver’s licence.

As part of the recruitment process, you will be required to address the key selection criteria on the online application on the Anglicare NT website.

For further information on this exciting opportunity, please contact Jessica Kretschmer on 08 8931 5999.

Anglicare NT is currently undertaking a workplace consultation regarding the ongoing requirements for workers to be vaccinated. We anticipate an outcome by July. In the interim, Anglicare NT strongly encourages everyone, who is medically able, to be fully vaccinated (included the booster) against COVID-19.

Experience of working closely with and having a strong understanding of Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander culture would be considered an advantage.

Anglicare NT is a Child Safe, Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) employer and strongly encourage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to apply