Aboriginal Community Mental Health Specialist

TELUS Health is empowering every person to live their healthiest life. Guided by our vision, we are leveraging the power of our leading edge technology and focusing on the uniqueness of each individual to create the future of health.

A compassionate clinician from an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander background is required to join a dynamic team. In this pivotal role, you will provide culturally sensitive mental health and well-being support to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander individuals through short-term counselling, while also assisting organisations with a significant First Nations employee base to improve workplace well-being.

This is an opportunity to contribute to the delivery of culturally informed services that enhance the overall mental health of our First Nations communities.

The day-to-day activities include providing short-term counselling services to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander clients, offering culturally informed guidance to organisations to improve workplace mental health and well-being, facilitating group sessions and training on mental health, well-being, and cultural competency, assisting in the design and delivery of educational training packages for clients, contributing to ensuring culturally sensitive services are provided to both Aboriginal and Non-Aboriginal people, travelling within the state and interstate as required for client and organisational needs, managing client risk and clinical presentations in a short-term counselling framework, collaborating with colleagues and accessing peer consultation and external supervision.

Required skills and qualifications include proven experience in providing mental health and well-being support to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander individuals, strong understanding of the cultural, historical, familial, and societal factors influencing mental health in First Nations communities, qualifications in Counselling, Psychology, or Social Work, professional registration with a relevant health professional body, minimum of three years of counselling experience, ability to manage clinical risk and client presentations effectively, confidence with computer systems is an asset, passion for delivering culturally informed mental health services, flexibility to work in a dynamic and evolving environment with a focus on client well-being.

The benefits include contributing to the delivery of proactive employee mental health and related services in a sector that has a critical impact on the health, well-being and welfare of others, engaging in values-driven work - driving culturally sensitive mental health and well-being support to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander individuals, flexible working arrangements including working from home options and adjustments to hours, access to peer consultation and external supervision, access to hundreds of professional development courses to help you further your clinical skills as you see fit, career progression for the right clinicians there are opportunities to further your career into leadership positions or specialist services, other benefits include wellbeing days, volunteer days, and a generous parental leave policy.

• Contribute to the delivery of proactive employee mental health and related services in a sector that has a critical impact on the health, well-being and welfare of others.
• Engage in values-driven work - driving culturally sensitive mental health and well-being support to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander individuals.
• Flexible working arrangements – including working from home options and adjustments to hours.
• Access to peer consultation and external supervision.
• Access to hundreds of professional development courses to help you further your clinical skills as you see fit.
• Career progression - for the right clinicians, there are opportunities to further your career into leadership positions or specialist services.

The health and safety of our team, customers and communities is paramount to TELUS. Accordingly, we require anyone joining our organisation to be fully vaccinated for COVID-19.