Career Growth Support Professional

Our organization is seeking a skilled professional to fill a challenging role as a Wellbeing Specialist.

The successful candidate will be responsible for providing individually tailored assessments, psychological interventions and counselling services to job seekers who experience non-vocational and vocational barriers that could impact on gaining employment.

This may include conducting mental health assessments, delivering cognitive-behavioural therapy, interpersonal therapy, solution-focused therapy and other evidence-based interventions to help clients overcome their challenges and achieve their goals.

In addition to this, the ideal candidate will also have experience working across a diverse range of client issues, including mental health, psychosocial issues, drug and alcohol, personal development, and vocational assessments.

They will also have strong verbal and written communication skills, including report writing, and be able to work independently as well as part of a team environment.

The successful candidate will have relevant Allied Health degree (i.e., Psychology, Social Work, Counselling) and current registration with the appropriate registration or association body (i.e., Ahpra, AASW, ACA, PACFA).

The ideal candidate will also have experience delivering face-face, telephone and video conferencing evidence-based assessments and psychological interventions.

We offer a competitive salary, uncapped bonuses, 3 days bonus leave per year, genuine work-life balance, smart phone provided, access to Employee Assistance Program providing counselling services across a wide range of work and life categories such as career, family, financial and health assistance, Learning & Development opportunities and direct support to achieving a Cert IV/ Diploma qualification in a relevant discipline.

About the role:

This role requires you to provide psychological interventions and counselling services to job seekers who experience non-vocational and vocational barriers that could impact on gaining employment. This includes conducting mental health assessments, delivering cognitive-behavioural therapy, interpersonal therapy, solution-focused therapy and other evidence-based interventions to help clients overcome their challenges and achieve their goals.

In addition to this, you will also be required to engage in case conference with internal business units to ensure the continuation of care during the client's engagement with the service, provide advocacy and referral to external services, provide support and assistance in organising job capacity assessments for job seekers with Centrelink, provide telephone crisis assistance and post-placement support to clients who are employed but whose job is in jeopardy.

Essential Criteria:

- Relevant Allied Health degree (i.e., Psychology, Social Work, Counselling) and current registration with the appropriate registration or association body (i.e., Ahpra, AASW, ACA, PACFA).- Experience working across a diverse range of client issues, for example, mental health, psychosocial issues, drug and alcohol, personal development, and vocational assessments.- Experience in delivering face-face, telephone and video conferencing evidence-based assessments and psychological interventions, such as cognitive-behavioural therapy, interpersonal therapy, solution-focused therapy for management of issues/barriers to help move our clients closer the labour market.- Strong verbal and written communication skills, including report writing.- Ability to work within a diverse team environment and across various programs of support and ages (15-65 years of age).