Counsellor

3 weeks ago

Ipswich, Australia Mercy Community Service Full time

**The Role**

Mercy Community currently has a vacancy for a Trauma Informed Counsellor to join the Intensive Foster and Kinship Care team in Ipswich. This role is a Permanent Part-time position offering 4 days a week.

This position provides counselling and therapeutic services to clients aged between 3 - 18 years in family based out of home care and their carers. Additionally, you will be required to complete assessments, pre
- and post-evaluations and interventions within the Intensive Intervention Placement Support service. This position also liaises with a broad network of stakeholders who participate in or impact on the success of client plans, referrals and goals.

This position offers a competitive hourly rate of $39.26 - $42.25 plus superannuation. You will also have the opportunity to increase your take-home pay by salary sacrificing and other benefits.

**To be eligible for this position you will require**:

- Hold a 3 or 4 year tertiary qualification in Social Work, Social Science, Counselling, Psychology, Behavioural Sciences or related discipline.
- Demonstrated experience developing individualised and/or family therapeutic plans.
- Queensland Provisional Green (P2) or above Driver’s License.
- Ability to obtain positive notice in the Working with Children Check (Blue Card) and any other legislatively required personal history screening as required.
- Evidence of current vaccination against whooping cough or willingness to obtain prior to commencement, unless applicable exemption provided as per the relevant Mercy Community procedure.

**Core Competencies**
- Demonstrated ability to work with children and young people who have experienced trauma.
- The capacity to be client focused, build relationships with service users through trust, rapport, and effective communication when counselling children and young people and their carers.
- Demonstrated ability working with young people and carers from diverse backgrounds.
- Understanding the stages of Child Development.
- Provide services in line with a Trauma Informed framework.

**Why choose to work at Mercy?**

Mercy Community appreciates the important work that each person contributes to the success of our programs and services. Being part of the Mercy team, means you have access to some fantastic benefits, such as we:

- Pay for your Queensland Blue Card and NDIS Worker Screening Card when you need - saving you up to $144 if you need both cards
- Provide you and your immediate family free, professional and confidential counselling services. This includes specialised First Nations counsellors.
- Provide the opportunity to increase your take home pay through the use of salary sacrificing and other packaging benefits -up to $18,550 per annum is available to take advantage of
- Provide access to novated leases for a vehicle to help reduce your taxable income.

Depending on your role, you may also be eligible:

- For annual influenza and/or other vaccination reimbursements
- To receive pay bonus’ of $500 for successful employee referrals
- To cash out or purchase annual leave and to
- Take advantage of extra leave entitlements

We also ensure all our employees have access to a wide variety of excellent learning and development tools to continue your professional and personal development. This includes making sure you have access to plenty of other career pathways and opportunities in the broader Families and Young People programs, or in other programs and services across Mercy.

**About Us**

Mercy Community is a Catholic not-for-profit, compassionately inspiring and supporting people to live hopeful, connected lives within inclusive communities. We support families and young people, people living with a disability, and older people, and live by our values of Compassion, Integrity, Dignity and Empowerment. We have been providing services and support for over 150 years and our team operates across a network that encompasses urban, rural and remote communities. Please visit our website to find out more about our dedicated team and the work we do.

**Next Steps**
- Mercy is committed to Safeguarding - taking actions to promote and ensure the welfare of children and adults at risk, protect them from abuse or neglect and supporting an awareness of whole community responsibility to help and protect all in need._

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