• headspace Darwin Consortium
• Darwin

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 independent leadership to the headspace Darwin Consortium. headspace Darwin aims to be highly accessible, youth-friendly and an integrated service that responds to mild to moderate mental health, general health, alcohol and other drug and the vocational concerns of young people 12 – 25 years of age. headspace Darwin aims to provide specialist mental health treatment as well as improving mental health outcomes by reducing help-seeking barriers and facilitating early access to services that meet the holistic needs of young people.

In order to promote and achieve the headspace objectives, the headspace Darwin Consortium was founded to provide strategic direction and support to the headspace Darwin service. The Consortium is a face to face gathering of representatives from a range of adolescent, mental health and/or health-related services within the Darwin region.

The role of the Chair is to provide independent leadership to the headspace Darwin Consortium. The Chair will be appointed for one year, with the option to extend should both parties be satisfied. The Chair may only hold the position for three consecutive years.

This position will be committed to the mission and embody the values of Anglicare NT and support core business by providing service, guidance and advice within the position’s speciality area

To be successful in this role:

• A thorough understanding of, experience in and passion for youth mental health.
• An understanding of the Northern Territory health system and issues faced by young people experiencing mental health concerns.
• Advanced minute taking and report writing (including word processing) skills.
• Prior experience or at a minimum commitment to working respectfully with Aboriginal and culturally and linguistically diverse young people, families, communities, staff and Aboriginal Controlled Health Organisations.
• Highly effective people management, time management and meeting facilitation skills.

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

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 Waine on 08 8931 5995.

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

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.