Ready to Lead with Impact?

Are you ready to take charge of your career and make a meaningful difference? Join us at Eating Disorders Queensland (EDQ) as a Team Leader, where you'll collaborate closely with the CEO to shape the future of our treatment services.

About EDQ:

EDQ is a state-wide, community-based, not-for-profit organisation dedicated to supporting individuals living with eating disorders, their loved ones, and key support people. Our mission is to facilitate hope and recovery for all people affected by eating disorders.

Who Should Apply?

We encourage applicants who identify as Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islanders, individuals from diverse backgrounds, and those with lived experiences of eating disorders to apply.

Individuals with emerging leadership skills and experience working in complex mental health.

Key Responsibilities:

• Adherence to Policies and Procedures:
  
  • Work by EDQ’s policies and procedures, ensuring a consistent and compliant approach.
• Leadership and Supervision:
  
  • Lead and supervise a team of coordinators and senior practitioners, providing clinical and operational oversight.
  • Facilitate timely and collaborative clinical decision-making, triaging processes, risk assessment, and staff wellbeing oversight.
• Collaboration with Leadership:
  
  • Work closely with EDQ’s leadership team to review, develop, and implement policies and procedures.
  • Ensure new service models align with best practice standards, maximise available resources, and meet EDQ’s strategic aims.
  • Take direction from the CEO.
• Care Navigator Relationship:
  
  • Maintain oversight and a close working relationship with the Care Navigator regarding waitlists and client care.
  • Ensure appropriate treatment and psychosocial support for clients.
• Leadership Model - BRAVING:
  
  • Provide oversight and leadership, modelling and instilling BRAVING principles (Brene Brown’s Boundaries, Reliability, Accountability, Vault, Integrity, Non-Judgment, Generosity).
• Culture Development:
  
  • Foster a collaborative, safety-focused culture committed to reflective practice, professional development, and ethics.
  • Drives clear, consistent, and transparent communication, especially during difficult conversations.
• Open Communication and Boundaries:
  
  • Communicate openly and vulnerably, setting clear and kind boundaries aligned with team KPIs and EDQ processes.
• Monitoring and Reporting:
  
  • Regularly monitor staff KPIs, performance appraisals, performance management, training requests and staff coverage
  • Maintain a client management system, including case notes, measurement tools, statistics/report generation, and reporting to funding bodies.
  • Work collaboratively with the Research Officer, providing information and resources for data input, conference abstracts, and opportunities for publishing EDQ services outcomes.
• Specialist Therapeutic Services: Counselling
  
  • Have a solid understanding and able to deliver evidence-based therapeutic services for individuals with eating disorders using a multi-disciplinary approach and a feminist/social justice practice framework.
  • Provide intervention and support for clients with complex needs.
• Stakeholder Engagement:
  
  • Engage with relevant stakeholders, service users, and EDQ staff to optimise service delivery.
  • Represent EDQ at case consultations, service partnerships, networking meetings, and events.
• State-Wide Service Delivery:
  
  • Support innovative state-wide service delivery and liaise with eating disorders-specialised services attached to Hospital and Health Services.
• Travel:
  
  • Travel across QLD, particularly to the Cairns Office, may be required.

Key Selection Criteria:

RESPOND to these criteria in your application.

1. Tertiary qualification in Social Work, Psychology, or Counselling (with eating disorders field experience highly valued.)
2. Registration with relevant professional bodies
3. Able to step up in a leadership position in a complex mental health environment.
4. Ability to engage in high-level decision-making in a dynamic clinical environment.
5. Comprehensive understanding of eating disorders and co-occurring mental health presentations
6. Solid knowledge of evidence-based psychological interventions (e.g. DBT, ACT, CBT, Narrative or SCHEMA therapy)
7. Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
8. High-level ability to provide consultation, training, and guidance.
9. Strong interpersonal skills, emotional intelligence, and engagement skills.
10.  Monitor and implement quality assurance for best practice standards.
11. Track record of working autonomously and collaboratively.
12. Passionate about leading a team in a collaborative way in line with EDQ values.

Reporting Relationships:

This position reports to the CEO.

Will have a collaborative leadership role within the Leadership Team

Funding:

All positions offered by EDQ are conditional on recurrent funding from the funding bodies.

Perks & Benefits

• Supportive and collaborative workplace culture
• Ongoing training and supervision
• Management coaching
• Close to multiple public transport options
• Salary packaging and leave loading.
• A workplace that values the voice of lived experience.
• Safe culture for those with a lived experience of eating disorders (if applicable)

The applicant must possess or consent to undergo the following:

• the Queensland Police National Police Records Check
• the Queensland Working with Children Check (renewed every five years)
• the Queensland ‘Yellow Card’ Application for criminal history screening
• Permission to work in Australia (e.g. Australian citizen or permanent resident)

How to apply and the closing date:

Applications will be considered as they are received. Please submit your application via the Apply Now link.

Application Requirements:

To apply, submit:

• A cover letter addressing the selection criteria, showcasing your transferable skills.
• A resume detailing your career experience and achievements.