Wellbeing Specialist

**Achieve your dreams by helping others achieve theirs**:

- ** We support you to grow your career**:

- ** Genuine work-life balance**

We have an exciting opportunity for **Wellbeing Specialist** to provide services relating to mental health, psychosocial issues (including anger management), personal development, and career counselling for job seekers that will improve their work readiness and progress towards employment.

As a result of exceptional growth, we are recruiting in **Ballarat **for our **Workforce Australia Services program**

**Why Asuria?**

Achieve your dreams by helping others achieve theirs. At Asuria, you can make a real difference by working with people to find long-term employment. A difference that means many people will gain meaningful employment through your mentoring and your advice.

**We support you**

Working at Asuria is more than a job, it is a career. A career where you can reach the best version of yourself and achieve your full potential. Asuria will support you every step of the way. We will provide all the resources, learning and development and leadership guidance you will need to further your career or to enter this exciting industry.

**The rewards of being an Asurian**:

- 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.

**Be part of a company that beats to an enterprising heart**

At Asuria, our people are at the very heart of everything we do and deliver. To be an Asurian, you must be able to balance empathy, dignity, and respect in your daily work with a drive to ensure we achieve positive business outcomes.

**About the role**:
This role requires you to provide individually tailored assessments (including mental health assessments), psychological interventions and counselling services to job seekers who experience non-vocational and vocational barriers that could impact on gaining employment. This will be done by providing high quality, evidence-based psychological interventions and health services to our clients who are referred to the service.

**In addition to this you will also be required to**:

- Provide services via telehealth or video counselling for our remote clients.
- Provide vocational guidance, skills training, including goal setting and problem solving.
- 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**:

- You have a relevant Allied Health degree (i.e., Psychology, Social Work, Counselling) and have a current and ongoing registration with the appropriate registration or association body (i.e., Ahpra, AASW, ACA, PACFA))
- You will have experience working across a diverse range of client issues, for example, mental health, psychosocial issues, drug and alcohol, personal development, and vocational assessments.
- You will have experience in delivering face-face, telephone and video conferencing l 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.
- Have 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).
- Ability to manage own client load, manage appointments and work independently.

**Desirable**:

- Experience within the employment services industry
- Experience in running groups

**How to Apply**:
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