The University of Notre Dame Australia is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Student Counsellor to join our team. As a Student Counsellor, you will play a critical role in providing professional counselling services to students, facilitating their personal, emotional, social, and educational transition and adjustment.

• Provide confidential and ethical counselling services to students, including assessment, case-management, and referral to external agencies as needed.
• Participate in peer and group supervision, client outcome evaluation, and quality assurance processes, including maintaining accurate student records and documentation.
• Deliver crisis intervention support and strategies to students, and provide referrals to those affected by incidents involving students.
• Develop and deliver workshops, training, and group facilitation on topics such as client-centred and short-term solution-focused counselling, CBT, ACT, and mindfulness.
• Collaborate with other departments to provide strategic and specialist input on the development of university mental wellbeing, safety, pastoral care, mediation, and learning support for students.

• Relevant tertiary qualifications in psychology or counselling, with experience in the higher education sector and student challenges.
• Significant experience in delivering workshops with individuals and groups.
• Registration with a relevant professional body, such as AHPRA and/or Australian Counselling Association (ACA) and/or Psychotherapy and Counselling Federation of Australia (PACFA).
• Ability to provide a range of counselling services tailored to student needs, using evidence-based approaches.
• Demonstrated experience in outcome-informed counselling approaches, including strong assessment, intervention, and referral skills.
• Experience in working with high-risk students and complex mental health issues.
• Ability to communicate and present information to internal stakeholders, and manage time and organisational skills.

The University of Notre Dame Australia is a private Catholic University with over 1,000 permanent staff, providing an exceptional educational experience to over 12,000 students across our Fremantle, Broome, and Sydney campuses, as well as clinical schools in Victoria and New South Wales.