Clinical Practice Lead - Counselling - Central Coast

• Part-Time (0.5 FTE up to 37 hours per fortnight)
• SCHADS Level 6 | Central Coast NSW
• Lead practice. Support our people. Strengthen outcomes for women on the Central Coast.

For more than 50 years, Central Coast Community Women's Health Centre (CCCWHC) has worked alongside women to improve health, safety and wellbeing through access to information, choice and care. Grounded in feminism, intersectionality, social justice, and trauma and violence-informed practice, we support women to navigate challenges, strengthen resilience, and achieve safer and healthier futures. 

We are seeking an experienced and values-aligned Clinical Practice Lead - Counselling to provide leadership across our counselling service and help strengthen the quality, consistency and impact of our practice.

About the role:

As our Clinical Practice Lead, you will play a critical role in translating our organisational values and service model into everyday practice. Working alongside counsellors and the leadership team, you will support a culture of reflective practice, psychological safety, ethical decision-making and continuous improvement. 

You will help ensure our counselling service continues to deliver high-quality, trauma and violence-informed responses that:

• support safety and stabilisation;
• facilitate trauma recovery and healing;
• strengthen connection, resilience and wellbeing;
• uphold women's dignity, choice and self-determination; and
• contribute to improved outcomes for women experiencing adversity, violence and inequity.

This role is ideal for a leader who enjoys balancing strategic thinking, practice leadership and day-to-day support of a counselling team.

About you:

You are a highly experienced practitioner and supervisor who is passionate about supporting women and developing the capability of others.

You will bring:

• Extensive clinical experience in counselling, psychotherapy, psychology, social work or a related discipline.
• Experience working with women affected by domestic, family and sexual violence and a strong understanding of gendered violence and its impacts.
• Experience leading and developing teams of practitioners.
• Significant supervision experience, including individual, group and reflective supervision.
• Strong skills in risk assessment, clinical governance and ethical practice.
• Experience supporting trauma and violence-informed practice.
• The ability to foster psychological safety, reflective practice and professional growth within teams.
• Highly developed communication, facilitation and stakeholder engagement skills.
• A commitment to feminism, social justice practice.

Why join us? 

We know that how we work with women matters. Every interaction can have a lasting impact on a woman's experience of safety, empowerment and healing. Our team is committed to creating meaningful change through compassionate, evidence-informed and culturally responsive practice.

Joining CCCWHC means being part of an organisation that:

• Walks alongside women rather than directing them.
• Centres safety through trauma and violence-informed practice.
• Is guided by feminism, intersectionality and social justice. 
• Values reflective practice, staff wellbeing and professional growth.
• Works collaboratively within our community to address gendered violence, health inequities and barriers to support. 
• Believes in the strength, wisdom and resilience of women and communities

For a confidential discussion about the role, please contact Sarah-Jane Hill, Head of Client Services @ sarahjane.hill@ccwh.org.au using the subject line: Clinical Practice Lead - Counselling - Central Coast enquiry via EthicalJobs.

If you are passionate about strengthening counselling practice, developing practitioner capability, and contributing to safe and healthy futures for women on the Coast, we would love to hear from you.