Counsellor - Mental Health

_**Where excellence meets opportunity - discover your next chapter with cohealth**_
- **Full time, ongoing role**:

- **Work for a multi-award-winning iconic community health organisation**:

- **Generous salary packaging options to reduce your cohealth taxable income**

**So why cohealth?**

cohealth leads the way in reducing health and social inequity in partnership with people and the communities in which they live. Named Premier's Health Service of the Year (Primary) and the Supporting LGBTIQ+ Health Service at the Victorian Public Healthcare Awards, cohealth's 1000 staff demonstrate courage, leadership, innovation, and agility in their commitment to providing inclusive and culturally safe health services that protect the human rights of all people of all gender identities, sexualities, ages, cultural and linguistic backgrounds, faiths, and abilities.

Our inclusive workplace culture enables staff to bring their whole selves to work, where uniqueness is valued, and people experience a feeling of belonging. Our aim is for everyone to thrive in their role. Please click here to find out more.

**About the role**

The role includes counselling within an inter-professional approach around issues such as psychosocial issues, trauma, family violence, relationship issues, grief and loss with a particular focus on marginalised communities. Counselling duties are the primary focus, but the position also includes casework, care-planning and groupwork.

Please refer to the Position Description for more information.

**Your duties include**:

- Provide clients with support and strategies to deal with the grief and loss common with mental health challenges.
- Provide casework, referral and advocacy to clients particularly where this would enhance the therapeutic work and/or where other services are not available
- Provide services in a manner that are sensitive to each client's background and beliefs (e.g. cultural)
- Keep abreast of and utilise evidence-based and best practice approaches
- Provide clients with support and strategies to make lifestyle changes to assist with the management of mental health challenges

**What cohealth offers**:

- Exciting Parental leave benefits
- cohealth offers primary carers 14 weeks paid parental leave upon completion of only 6 months of continuous service
- Eligible co-workers will continue to receive superannuation on unpaid parental leave as well
- Novated Leasing available
- Counselling services for you and your immediate family through our EAP-Access provider, and mindfulness, resilience, and wellbeing programs
- We offer inclusion, equality, and opportunity in a workplace where making a difference counts (based on our guiding principles and values)
- Tertiary qualifications in Post Graduate Counselling or Social Work with eligibility to membership of AASW, PACFA or ACA or an equivalent qualification as determined by cohealth
- Proof of qualification to be sighted
- Minimum of two years demonstrated experience in provision of a high standard of client centred, evidence-based short to medium term counselling for the target population.
- Victorian Driver's License required

**Application Process**
- Roles that are determined to be Risk Category A or B [staff that have direct and/or indirect contact with body substances and are at higher risk of occupational exposure to infections] will be required to provide evidence of immunisation assessment including Influenza prior to commencement [A] or within 12 weeks of commencement [B]. This is in accordance with the Victorian Minister of Health Mandatory Vaccination Orders for COVID-19 and legislated requirement for influenza vaccination._

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

**Benefits**:

- Parental leave
- Salary packaging

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

Work Location: In person