Youth Connector/counsellor

**About the role**
- The Youth Connector provides essential links for young people and children exhibiting sexually reactive behaviour to access counselling and therapeutic services. This position delivers counselling and therapeutic services to children and young people, encompassing assessments, pre
- and post-evaluations, and interventions._

**Salary commensurate with experience plus superannuation plus salary packaging available**

This role entails but not limited to

Youth Connector
- “Connect” young people with specialist counselling and support services for sexual assault and abuse.
- Establish and maintain pathways for young people needing sexual assault/abuse services.
- Facilitate early intervention youth counselling for sexually reactive behaviours.

Counsellor
- Work with your line manager to identify client needs and deliver appropriate services within available resources, continually assessing and responding to changing needs and dynamics.
- Conduct assessments to inform therapeutic goals, intervention plans, casework, and client support.
- Offer short and long-term individual and family counselling in response to referrals, using various therapeutic interventions to address identified issues.

**About you**

As the successful applicant, you will possess:

- Completed degree in Social Work, Social Science, Counselling, Psychology, Behavioural Sciences, or a related discipline from a recognised institution
- Current and valid Queensland Provisional Green or above Driver’s License
- Current and valid Working with Children Check (Blue Card) or ability to apply
- Proof of current whooping cough vaccination or willingness to obtain it before starting

**Why Mercy Community**

Mercy Community is a Catholic not-for-profit that provides a wide range of services supporting families and young people, people living with a disability and the elderly. All our work is driven by our core values of Compassion, Integrity, Dignity & Empowerment.

Being part of the Mercy Community team, means you have access to some fantastic benefits, such as:

- Increase your take home pay through the use of generous salary packaging - up to $18,550 per annum of your salary is available as a tax-free component
- Pay for your Queensland Blue Card and NDIS Worker Screening Card when you need - saving you up to $144 if you need both cards
- Provide you and your immediate family free, professional and confidential counselling services including specialised First Nations counsellors
- Free annual influenza and/or other vaccination reimbursements
- Employee referral bonus incentive
- Cash out or purchase annual leave and to take advantage of extra leave entitlements

We also ensure all our employees have access to a wide variety of excellent learning and development tools to continue your professional and personal development. This includes making sure you have access to a range of other career pathways and opportunities across Mercy.
- Mercy Community Services is a Circle Back Initiative Employer and commit to respond to every applicant._