Natasha Smith she/her

Natasha is a not-for-profit sector leader and mental health clinician who underpins her work with strong values of integrity, accountability, justice, and compassion. She is currently the Operations Manager of the Headspace’s nation-wide Early Career Program and brings to the board combined experience in board directorship, clinical governance, clinical leadership, operations management and service provision.

Natasha strongly believes that the heart of an organisation’s success is its people.  As such, she is passionate about developing strong frameworks that shape and maintain positive organisational culture and enhancing the engagement and sustainability of not-for-profit workforces.

Natasha is a strong advocate for lived experience leadership and participation in service design, delivery and governance. She has served on multiple clinical governance and management committees for LGBTIQA+ community led organisations such as Switchboard Victoria and LGBTIQ+ Health Australia and has led diversity and inclusion actions plans within mainstream organisations to improve responsiveness to queer, transgender and gender diverse young people seeking mental health and medical care. She was an active member of Q-West, a consortium of community and health services who worked collectively to advocate for and improve the LGBTIQA+ inclusion in health and wellbeing services in Melbourne’s western region.

As a Youth Mental Health Clinician/Psychologist, Natasha is deeply passionate about ensuring all people have access to the care and support they need, when they need it.