Family And Community Counsellor

Centacare North Queensland is a not-for-profit organisation that provides counselling, family support, mediation, family dispute resolution, disability services, education and courses, crisis housing and homelessness support, youth services, community engagement and NDIS services. Centacare services the North Queensland community from offices in Townsville, Ayr, Bowen, Mt Isa, Cloncurry and Normanton.

Benefits you will enjoy:

• SCHADS L4 Salary
• Great NFP Salary Sacrifice options available to reduce your taxable salary by $15,900 p.a. with Eziway Salary Packaging
• 5 Weeks Annual Leave + 17.5% leave loading
• Birthday Leave + Other Above Award Benefits
• Extensive support and investment in your Professional Development
• On site Cafe

Job Description:

Family and Community Counselling Services (FCCS) provides counselling to individuals, couples, children and families that focus on family and relationship issues. FCCS provides services in Townsville & Mt Isa with outreach services to Ingham, Ayr, Charters Towers & Cloncurry.

Joining a values driven, supportive and inclusive team, you will have the following skills:

• Provide counselling to families/children/individuals using approaches that are flexible and appropriate to the program requirements in line with Centacare NQ policies and procedures.
• Conduct assessments of clients and develop therapeutic goals, provide consistent, evidenced based, best practice models of counselling to meet the therapy goals.
• Work in collaboration with other team members and actively participate in case discussions.
• Manage client load in accordance with targets specified in funding and service agreements.
• Establish and maintain high level, collaborative working relationships, internally and externally, that contribute towards the achievement of organisational, program and service aims and objectives.
• Conduct overnight outreach to other locations.

Desired Skills and Experience:

To be successful in this role you will have:

• Relevant tertiary degree in Social Work, Psychology or Behavioral Sciences and eligibility for membership of a relevant professional association.
• Highly developed written and oral communication skills, including the ability to prepare documents for case planning or advocacy purposes.
• Experience in delivering evidence-based therapeutic counselling interventions to formulate therapy plans, set goals and facilitate a positive approach in working with individuals to achieve these goals within established time frames.
• An understanding of relevant legislation and effective service delivery models and the ability to work within such frameworks. This includes sourcing and sharing up to date knowledge on research and best practice frameworks.
• Current open driver's license.
• Current, and ability to retain, both a Working with Children Blue Card check and Disability Worker Screening/Clearance/Card.
• An ability to work in a culturally sensitive manner with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders children and families and other CALD families.

Desirable:

• Experience in delivering evidence-based therapeutic counselling interventions to formulate therapy plans, set goals and facilitate a positive approach in working with individuals to achieve these goals within established time frames.
• Experience in working with diverse people and communities.

Applying:

If you are interested in applying for a position, please provide a brief cover letter outlining your experience relevant to this role along with a copy of your Resume. Only applicants that are shortlisted will be contacted. If you have not received any contact within 30 days of the commencement of this ad, unfortunately your application has been unsuccessful. We wish you all the very best in your future applications.

Centacare North Queensland is a Child Safe and Equal Opportunities Employer. People from diverse backgrounds including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with a disability, and people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds are encouraged to apply. Applicants must have appropriate work rights in Australia.