• Key clinical and team leadership opportunity
• Leave your day at the door with an easy drive to a regional or coastal location
• Be part of a new mental health model offering career-defining experience

Job details

Mental Health Team Leader

About the role:

Our recently refurbished Capricornia Correctional Centre is looking for their new Mental Health Team Leader to join this team.

This busy role is a great opportunity for a senior-level clinician with team leadership experience, or an experienced senior clinician ready to take the next career step into a leadership role.

QCS is undergoing a period of change and expanding their psychology workforce and service model to include social workers and occupational therapists. As Team Leader, you will support the local implementation of the new multi-disciplinary service model while managing and coaching the team through this period of change. This team and the services they provide impact and help shape lives through evidence-based mental health care in an operationally and culturally diverse environment, to improve rehabilitative outcomes and reduce recidivism. Your clinical and team leadership are key to ensuring delivery of critical mental health services, including complex case management, are of a high quality and comply with QCS protocols.

Building partnerships and stakeholder relationships is integral to this role and will require your excellent interpersonal and engagement strengths, which you will also use to provide professional supervision to the team members who have varying levels of experience.

If this is new senior role is of interest, time to get your application ready.

So why choose us?

• New service model: QCS is introducing new roles and disciplines to provide mental health services, so be one of the first to embed this role and make it a success
• Clinical expertise: operate independently to provide clinical services, use your clinical reasoning and professional judgement to manage complex situations and presentations.
• Lead with influence: through your good leadership and management, you can actively role-model, promote and support a high performing culture and team.
• Build capability: your experience and feedback to the team on delivery of assessments and interventions can help to uplift the team capability and knowledge- collectively and individually
• Solutions focussed: use your strong analytical and problem-solving skills, complimented by your resilience, to respond to the role dynamics and changing priorities.

About you:

• Advanced level, demonstrated experience providing clinical services of a complex nature including assessments and interventions
• Able to provide clinical practice supervision to less experienced clinicians
• Use your high-calibre interpersonal and communication skills to build effective and trusted relationships within and across teams, and with stakeholders
• Thorough understanding of ethical and legal responsibilities and professional accountabilities of your discipline
• Highly developed written communication skills with the ability to produce excellent quality professional reports and case notes
• Team leadership and management including knowledge of and ability to implement human resources practices
• Strong time management, organisational and planning strengths to pre-empt service delivery and emerging priorities for team management

Mandatory Requirements:

• Tertiary qualifications in Psychology and membership with APHRA; or
• Tertiary qualifications in Occupational Therapy or Social Work, with eligibility for membership or registration with AHPRA and/or AASW (discipline specific);
• C Class Driver's Licence; and 
• Post-graduate qualifications in mental health would be highly regarded.

Applications to remain current for 12 months.

Job Ad Reference: QLD/687645/26

Closing Date: Friday, 22nd May 2026

Further information

We are committed to building inclusive cultures in the Queensland public sector that respect and promote human rights and diversity.

Please ensure you download all attachments and follow the instructions on how to apply.

Documents

Before applying for this vacancy please ensure you read the documents below.

• 687645-26-Role Description (PDF, 294KB)
  Role Description
  
  687645-26-Applicant information guide (PDF, 957KB)
  Information Package for Applicants