- Counsellor Caseworker

**_Counsellor Caseworker _**

**_Position Description_**

**_Position Objective _**

To provide direct care to clients and their caregivers, along the palliative care trajectory and in bereavement.
This includes psychosocial/spiritual assessment, on-going care planning, casework, counselling and liaison
with other services both within Peninsula Home Hospice (PHH) and the community.

To work effectively as a member of an interdisciplinary team, actively participate in organisational
committees and the wider community.

**_Statement of Purpose _**
- Peninsula Home Hospice provides home based specialist palliative care that optimises quality of life for _
- those in our care, and honours the hope for choice, dignity, comfort and peace.**_Core Values _**

We value: _Integrity, Collaboration, Respect, Innovation and Empowerment_

**_Position Specification _**

**Reports To **Clinical Leader Allied Health

**Award **Aligns with Social, Community, Home Care and Disability Services Industry Award
2010

**Classification **Social and Community Services Level 6

**Hours **As per Contract

**Role Reflection **Initially during the probation period at three months, and six months, then annually

**_Key Selection Criteria _**

Mandatory - Tertiary qualifications in Psychology, Counselling, Social Work
- Eligibility for membership or registration to relevant Professional Association
- Demonstrated ability to work with issues associated with dying, death and

bereavement
- Demonstrated ability to conduct psychosocial and spiritual assessments
- Demonstrated ability to develop, implement and evaluate care plans to address

the changing needs of clients
- Demonstrated ability to provide counselling for clients and their families and

caregivers
- Well-developed interpersonal and written communication skills
- Ability to work independently with mínimal supervision and as part of an

interdisciplinary team
- Current Victorian Drivers Licence

Desirable - Community palliative care experience
- High level of organisation and time management skills
- Experience and skill in group facilitation
- Well-developed computer skills

**_Counsellor Caseworker Position Description_**

**_Key Responsibilities _**

1. Conduct psycho-social and spiritual assessment, planning and evaluation

2. Provide counselling which includes bereavement interventions to meet the needs of clients and
their carers/families

3. Provide spiritual support to meet the needs of the clients and their carers/families

4. Facilitate client groups

5. Provide case work support for clients and their carers/families

6. Provide timely and relevant support to other members of the team

7. Utilise culturally appropriate intervention strategies for Culturally and Linguistically Divers clients
(CALD)

8. Demonstrate effective and efficient management of own workload to include indirect activities.

**Key Responsibility 1 Conduct psycho-social and spiritual assessment, planning and**
**evaluation
- Effective assessment _
- and planning ensuring _
- that psychosocial _
- spiritual needs are met _
- Prioritises new referrals for assessment within accepted timeframe
- Assesses individual mental functioning, emotional status, loss history, social

supports, coping styles, strengths and challenges, financial and legal
concerns and spiritual needs
- Assess group and family functioning
- Assist clients in setting goals, plans and evaluates interventions
- Provides client and carer/family education as appropriate
- Participates in discharge planning to ensure the provision of timely and

appropriate services
- Participates and contributes to the multi-disciplinary team meetings

**Key Responsibility 2**
- Ensures therapeutic _
- interventions build _
- client and family _
- capacity**Provide counselling which includes bereavement interventions to meet the**
**needs of clients and their carers/families
- Establishes rapport with clients and families
- Demonstrates counselling skills
- Provides opportunities to explore issues and emotions, and to increase self
- awareness
- Normalises grief processes and individual differences
- Demonstrates ability to facilitate Family Focused Therapy

**Key Responsibility 3 Provide spiritual support to meet the needs of clients and their**
**carers/families
- Ensures spiritual _
- needs are met_
- Invites spiritual exploration and supports what is sacred
- Demonstrates ability to identify spiritual needs and provide appropriate

spiritual support or referral to specialist worker
- Provides or refers clients for culturally appropriate religious support, ritual and

worship

**_Counsellor Caseworker Position Description_**

**Key Responsibility 4
**Facilitate client groups
- Provide opportunities _
- for growth in group _
- environments**Key Responsibility 5**
- Supports clients and _
- carers to access _
- practical supports**Key Responsibility 6
- Demonstrates ability to _
- support team growth _
- within collegial _
- boundaries _
- Demonstrates g