Counsellor - Mental Health Team

The **Counsellor**exists to deliver high-quality service in the areas of behaviour assessment and interventions at **Shrink & Co.**

**Shrink & Co.** is a mental health and specialist behaviour solutions provider, specialising in psychology, psychiatry and behaviour support. Based in Gold Coast QLD and Tweed Heads NSW we have 2 active physical locations with a growing client base across both Southeast Queensland and Northern NSW.

Our _**Vision**_

We imagine a world where _anyone_ can obtain mental health solutions by the **right person**, for the **right problem**, and at the **right time**.

Our _**Purpose**_

We exist to be a one-stop-shop of mental health solutions.

**Shrink & Co.** are a high performance, dynamic team with strong beliefs in high standards, leadership, teamwork, continuous improvement and getting the job done. We believe in creating value for our clients and their families, and we start by providing an exceptional client experience journey.

The **Counsellor** is an integral part our **Mental Health team**which is an interdisciplinary team tasked with managing clients and/or their systems with a diverse range of presentations including mental illness, relationship and marriage, substance abuse and addictions, employment and marginalisation, CALD and culturally related challenges, personal resilience and capacity-building.

Our **Mental Health team**consists of experts with the skills matrix across psychology, psychiatry and counselling disciplines. The MH team exists within Shrink & Co.'s ecosystem of supports to ensure clients in need of a solution at their particular point in life is able to access the right help, at the right intensity and be able to journey with them through end-to-end solutions. The MH team works alongside and collaboratively with our Behaviour Insights Team (BIT) where required, particularly when a wider family system is involved in managing family members with neurodevelopment disorders or behavioural issues.

This position would suit anyone with a **counselling background**who is self-driven, able to work in a team environment as well as individually, is willing and able to travel within the geography of our service footprint to deliver individual and group counselling services to our clients. Ongoing training and professional development is provided alongside multidisciplinary supervisions and team-based approach, including from senior counsellors.

This position includes:

- your salary package
- permanent employee entitlements
- Shrink & Co. employee benefits
- Dedicated work instruments (e.g. MacBook)

This is a permanent part-time position, with full-time capacity by negotiation. We are a people-focused company invested in the growth of our people. Entry into the position opens up a progressive career pathway for you as we grow our team.

**Skills you will need**
- High focus, innovative, and effective.
- Exceptional communication skills with clients and colleagues
- Exceptional time management skills to manage your own schedule and time utilization
- Ability to take responsibility for your own deliverables and outcomes in alignment with company outcomes
- Writing skills, both formal and informal, particularly in report writing
- Ability to understand the correlation and alignment between personal goals and company goals
- Strong interpersonal and collaboration skills to build effective relationships with internal and external stakeholders

**Responsibilities**
- Deliver on the outcomes of the position
- Deliver on company’s client satisfaction and financial outcomes
- Work collaboratively with fulfilment team to enable throughput of clinical service delivery

**Mandatory requirements**
- Professional accreditation (or eligible to be accredited) by the Australian Counselling Association (ACA) or the Psychotherapy and Counselling Federation of Australia (PACFA)
- NSW Working with Children’s Check clearance
- QLD Blue Card clearance
- Satisfactory NDIS Workers Screening Check
- Satisfactory vaccination status
- Driver's licence

**Highly desirable**
- Experience in the area of Counselling within a culturally diverse context
- Group program development and/or delivery
- Registration, or willingness and eligibility to register as a Behaviour Support Practitioner with NDIS
- Experience in the area of Counselling in the context of neurodevelopmental disorders in any setting
- Experience in family and systems work, including parenting in any setting

**This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced or emerging Counsellor who is interested to develop high-skills in your career within a high-performing, focused, client-centric company.**

**Job Types**: Full-time, Part-time, Permanent

Pay: $60,000.00 - $90,000.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Company car
- Employee mentoring program
- Professional development assistance

Schedule:

- Day shift
- Monday to Friday
- No weekends

Supplementary Pay:

- Annual bonus
- Bonus
- Performance bonus

Work Location: In pers