Counsellor

**Are you looking for a role where you can make a difference?**

As a Counsellor, you will be responsible for providing consultation and group supervision as well as a range of professional development services to assist SYC employment services sites.

We are seeking a highly motivated, compassionate and qualified Counsellor to join our team and help achieve sustainable and compliant participant outcomes

This position will be working across our Southern Adelaide sites**:Gawler Place, Glenelg, Christies Beach, Goolwa, Marion **and** Mount Barker.**

In this role, you’ll be part of a supportive and result driven team who are dedicated to our vision of wellbeing, foster referral relationships, and provide quality therapeutic interventions to individuals and groups. Day to day activities will include:

- Creating and maintaining relationship with key employees to generate referrals.
- Ensuring quality professional practice in the development and provision of services to meet established KPI’s.
- Performing collaborative assessments and interventions for clients.
- Providing ‘value add’ generalist counselling and Case Management support with a focus on supporting clients to gain and sustain employment and convene case conferences
- Providing consultation and feedback to team members on interventions, referrals and operational matters whilst maintaining client confidentiality.
- Providing coaching, guidance and support to other staff as directed.

**About You...**
- Excellent communication skills with well-developed interpersonal, verbal, and written skills, and the ability to conduct client assessments, developing case plans and case notes and report writing.
- Self-motivation and initiative, with well-developed organisational skills and the ability to meet deadlines and attend to multiple tasks and priorities.
- Interpersonal, conflict resolution and negotiation skills along with the ability to identify innovative and lateral solutions to problems.
- Previous experience working effectively within a multi-disciplinary framework and as part of a broader team to deliver quality services and collaboratively achieve participant outcomes.
- Ability to build and maintain positive working relationships with internal and external stakeholders.

**For this role, you will need to**:

- Have a minimum degree or graduate diploma level qualification in a relevant discipline (e.g., Psychology, Social Work, Counselling) is essential.
- Be willing to complete a Working with Children Check and National Police Check
- Have a current valid Driver’s License, willingness to drive, and your own registered vehicle with a 4-5 star ANCAP safety rating
- Be eligible to work in Australia

**Why join Team SYC?**
- Increase your pay with Salary Packaging options
- Career development opportunities
- Enjoy an additional day off to celebrate your Birthday*
- Wellbeing leave
- Access an additional one week of paid leave each year, through SYC loyalty leave*
- Be provided an additional paid personal leave
- Stay healthy with discounted Corporate Private Health Cover
- Access our free and confidential Employee Assistance Program
- Access to special discounts on memberships and fitness activities through Goodlife, Fitness First and Zap Health Clubs.
- Retail and Entertainment discount vouchers
- Enjoy special benefits with Beaurepaires
- Qualifying periods and terms apply.

**About us**

SYC exists so everyone can succeed.

‍We invest back into the community, helping tens of thousands of people every year to create a life without disadvantage, to build sustainable independence and to experience wellbeing in all areas of their lives.

A non-profit human services organisation, SYC was founded in 1958 to support young people experiencing disadvantage in Adelaide. We now operate nationally, supporting more than 57,000 people annually with housing, education, employment, justice, health and disability services.

We are proud to work with people who are passionate and professional, who encourage and value diversity, who are courageous, creative and, most importantly, believe in people’s potential. Our vision of wellbeing, independence and opportunity for everyone encompasses the people we work with, as well as the people who work for SYC.

**If you are passionate about empowering individuals to reach their career goals, we want to hear from you**

**We’re proud to be a Circle Back Initiative Employer, and we commit to responding to every applicant.**

SYC is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is proud of our diverse workforce. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

We encourage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, and people with disability to apply.