Rehabilitation Counsellor

Company Description
**Finished your fourth year Psychology Degree? Unsure of your next step? Be supported to become a Rehabilitation Counsellor with IPAR.**

Additionally, IPAR will offer the flexibility to complete your fifth-year Psychology degree, with guaranteed placement and internal Psychological supervision for your 6th year.

Our occupational Rehabilitation Consultants support thousands of people living with illness, disability, or injury live life to their fullest potential.

**Job Description**:
A diverse role, with flexibility and autonomy to manage your own day. Collaborate with a team of driven and energetic healthcare professionals to provide holistic occupational rehabilitation support. Based on your clients individual outcome goals, provide psychological treatment to clients with a range of conditions:

- Case management (caseloads are manageable, and our consultants have the support of Rehabilitation Assistants to alleviate administrative tasks)
- Working with employers and employees to develop and implement injury prevention and workplace education programs
- Working collaboratively with injured workers, employers, medical and allied health professionals
- Providing evidence-based psychological interventions
- Completing a variety of assessments using your clinical skills. Including but not limited to Initial assessments to form a diagnosis, treatment plans, psychosocial barriers to employment and Vocational Assessments for injured workers.

**Qualifications**:

- Tertiary qualifications in Psychology, Health Sciences or Rehabilitation Counselling
- Strong communication skills to build and develop relationships
- Excellent time management skills - be able to work autonomously as well as within a team environment
- A desire to problem solve with the confidence to be innovative, use their initiative and achieve results
- A passion for injury prevention, return to work, and the associated health benefits
- Energy and drive to grow our services
- A current driver licence and access to their own vehicle

Additional Information

Our core values are always at the heart of the work that we do every day:

- We act with **integrity**. We are honest, ethical, and transparent. We inspire trust through open communication;
- ** People** work together. We enable each other to thrive within a culture of collaboration, fun and high performance;
- We take pride in delivering an exceptional and seamless **customer** experience each and every time;
- ** Quality & Innovation** is at the forefront of our thinking. We have the courage to actively seek new opportunities and continually improve;
- We embrace **sustainability** across all aspects of our business including financial performance, service; design and delivering meaningful outcomes for our team, our customers and the communities that we work in.

**You are welcome here.**

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer, proudly welcoming people with disability including mental health conditions, people from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds, people from the LGBTQI community, veterans, carers and Indigenous Australians to our team. When you join IPAR, we want you to bring your whole self to work - and we value your unique contribution.
- MedHealth is committed to providing a safe and healthy work environment for all staff. Your vaccination status may be discussed as part of the recruitment and selection process._