Adolescent Family Counsellor
1 week ago
Salary Packaging on a range of everyday living expenses
- Meals & Entertainment Salary packaging up to $2,650
- Free access to our corporate Employee Assistance Program
**Adolescent and Family Counsellor**
- ** Full-time contract until 01/05/24**:
- ** Location: Maitland and Cessnock**
**About the Opportunity**:
The Adolescent and Family Counsellor will provide person centred support and a strengths-based, psychological therapeutic and collaborative approach to assisting young people and families. The primary goal of the Counsellor is to effect reconciliation between young people and their families, to ensure young people stay within the family home, are restored to their family or work towards independent living where this is acceptable and appropriate.
**Why work for us?**
Our team are the heart of what we do here at Samaritans. As a part of the Samaritans team, you have access to the following great benefits:
- 14 weeks paid maternity leave or 3 weeks paid parental pay. + Super Contributions after 12 months
- Salary Packaging on a range of everyday living expenses (Mortgage, Rent and Bills), up to $611/fortnight
- Up to 40% off on school enrolment fees at any of our Newcastle Anglican schools
- Meals & Entertainment Salary packaging up to $2,650
- Access to Fitness Passport (over 300+gyms)
- Free access to our corporate Employee Assistance Program
- Flexible working options (including compressed week, RDO’s, 9-day fortnights).
- Career and development opportunities
**The Essentials**
- Degree qualifications in Psychology, Counselling, Family Therapy, Social Work or equivalent with experience working with families
- Demonstrated skills in assessment, referrals, and co-ordination of care for young people
- Demonstrated ability to use person centred frameworks and a strengths-based approach in providing casework and counselling using appropriate models of intervention and a range of counselling/therapeutic approaches
- Highly developed interpersonal skills and an understanding of mediation and conflict resolution
- Demonstrated skills in developing, implementing and evaluating skills based and therapeutic groups with young people and parents
- Demonstrated ability to develop and maintain linkages and networks with a range of government, community and corporate stakeholders
- Experience in working independently and within a multidisciplinary team of professionals
- Ability to maintain comprehensive and professional client information, and complete data collation.
The successful applicant will possess or willingness to obtain the following: NSW Working with Children Check, NDIS Worker Screening Check, First aid & CPR certificate, Covid-19 Vaccination Certificate, and undertake a pre-employment functional medical.
**Who we are?**
Newcastle Anglican is at the core of some of the most well-known businesses within Newcastle, Hunter, Central Coast & Mid North Coast organisations. Our service agencies include Anglican Care and Samaritans as well as Newcastle Anglican Schools Corporation and 54 Anglican parishes.
**Please include your cover letter addressing the essential criteria, and your resume.**
**Applications Close: when we find you**
**Samaritans promotes the safety, wellbeing and inclusion of all children and young people.
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