Counsellor

6 months ago

Tweed Heads South, Australia Seven Migration Pty Ltd on behalf of BUSY Ability Full time

_BUSY Ability_

Counsellor

**Full-time Position**

**Cairns, Queensland**

**Salary $80,000 to $85,000 per annum**

The BUSY Group is a not-for-profit organisation providing training, employment, and community programs through our three (3) business entities and across 48+ locations Australia-wide. We have over 40 years' experience empowering job seekers, workers and businesses through our recruitment, apprenticeship and traineeship, employment, community programs and independent schools.

BUSY Ability is a business entity within The BUSY Group.

Our mission is to improve social equity through having more people in jobs, more people learning new skills, and more communities exposed to positive change.

**About the Role**

The primary purpose of the position is to provide evidence-based psychosocial interventions across the scope of BUSY Health Services

Key responsibilities of the position include:

- Facilitate a range of individual and group evidence-based cognitive behavioural interventions to clients
- Work closely with community agencies to connect people with cultural, recreation, social and education services to create opportunities for clients to meaningfully participate and engage with their communities
- Administer a range of psychological assessments
- Engage in reflective practice and contextual ethical reasoning with the goal of improving clinical practices
- Provide peer support to other BUSY health practitioners
- Facilitate in-home sessions for NDIS participants, with clinical support and guidance from the Senior Health Practitioner and GM Health
- Case consultation with case managers and/or leaders to facilitate the effective provision of support services to be done either separately to the case manager or jointly
- Actively work to meet individual and team clinical and operational KPIs
- Collaborate with other BUSY staff and managers to promote new allied health services
- Develop relationships with key internal and external stakeholders, promoting The BUSY Group’s suite of products and services to key stakeholders

**Qualifications and Skills**
- Bachelor’s degree in psychology and/or counselling
- Relevant registration/accreditation as allied health professional
- Blue Card (unless registration held provides exemption)
- Demonstrated ability to provide high quality assessment and evidence-based psychosocial interventions within case management models of service delivery
- Proven capacity and ability to work with professional integrity within ethical guidelines and support vulnerable people to identify and meet their goals
- Demonstrated ability to engage in contextual ethical reasoning in line with relevant ethical, legislative and organisational expectations
- Proven capacity to work alongside case managers to support clients to reach broader biopsychosocial goals
- Minimum of 6 months experience providing psychosocial health services, preferably within employment and/or education sector
- Experience working within a multidisciplinary team of health practitioners
- Knowledge and understanding of current mental health issues in Australia including its impact on client presentations and needs
- Excellent relationship building and stakeholder engagement skills
- Excellent communication, time management and relationship management skills
- Strong client focus and desire to be a part of a growing, high achieving, successful service organisation
- Flexibility to work across multiple sites at little notice

Schedule:

- 8 hour shift

**Experience**:

- Counselling: 1 year (preferred)

Work Authorisation:

- Australia (required)

Ability to Commute:

- Tweed Heads South, NSW 2486 (required)

Ability to Relocate:

- Tweed Heads South, NSW 2486: Relocate before starting work (required)

Work Location: In person

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