Counsellor

**Are you looking for a role where you can make a difference?**

We are seeking for highly motivated, outcome focused Counsellor to achieve sustainable and compliant participant outcomes and objectives. As a Counsellor you will be responsible for providing consultation and group supervision as well as a range of professional development services to assist SYC employment services sites. SYC delivers employment services at over 50 locations throughout Australia, and you’ll be based in **Adelaide, South Australia.**

This position will be working across Adelaide South sites**:Gawler Place, Glenelg, Christies Beach, Goolwa, Marion **and** Mount Barker.**

In this role, you’ll be part of a supportive and result driven team who are dedicated to our vision of wellbeing, foster referral relationships, and provide quality therapeutic interventions to individuals and groups. Day to day activities will include:

- Create and maintain relationship with key employees to generate referrals
- Ensure quality professional practice in the development and provision of services to meet established KPI’s
- Perform collaborative assessments and interventions for clients
- Provide ‘value add’ generalist counselling and Case Management support with a focus on supporting clients to gain and sustain employment and convene case conferences
- Provide consultation and feedback to team members on interventions, referrals and operational matters whilst maintaining client confidentiality.
- Provide coaching, guidance and support to other staff as directed.

**About You...**
- Excellent communication skills with well-developed interpersonal, verbal, and written skills, and the ability to conduct client assessments, developing case plans and case notes and report writing
- Self-motivation and initiative, with well-developed organisational skills and the ability to meet deadlines and attend to multiple tasks and priorities.
- Interpersonal, conflict resolution and negotiation skills along with the ability to identify innovative and lateral solutions to problems.
- Previous experience working effectively within a multi-disciplinary framework and as part of a broader team to deliver quality services and collaboratively achieve participant outcomes.

**For this role, you will need to**:

- Minimum degree or graduate diploma level qualification in a relevant discipline (e.g., Psychology, Social Work, Counselling) is essential.
- Be willing to complete a Working with Children Check and National Police Check
- A current valid Driver’s License, willingness to drive, and your own registered vehicle with a 4-5 star ANCAP safety rating
- Willing to undertake Mental Health First Aid and Disability Awareness training.
- Be eligible to work in Australia

**Why join Team SYC?**
- Increase your pay with Salary Packaging options
- Career development opportunities
- Enjoy an additional day off to celebrate your Birthday*
- Access an additional one week of paid leave each year, through SYC loyalty leave*
- Be provided an additional paid personal leave
- Stay healthy with discounted Corporate Private Health Cover
- Access our free and confidential Employee Assistance Program
- Discounted gym membership for all employees
- Enjoy special benefits with Beaurepaires
- Qualifying periods apply.

**About us**

SYC exists so everyone can succeed.

‍We invest back into the community, helping tens of thousands of people every year to create a life without disadvantage, to build sustainable independence and to experience wellbeing in all areas of their lives.

A non-profit human services organisation, SYC was founded in 1958 to support young people experiencing disadvantage in Adelaide. We now operate nationally, supporting more than 57,000 people annually with housing, education, employment, justice, health and disability services.

We are proud to work with people who are passionate and professional, who encourage and value diversity, who are courageous, creative and, most importantly, believe in people’s potential.Our vision of wellbeing, independence and opportunity for everyone encompasses the people we work with, as well as the people who work for SYC.

**If you match the criteria above, we want to hear from you**

**We’re proud to be a Circle Back Initiative Employer and we commit to respond to every applicant.**

SYC is a Child Safe organisation and will require the successful applicant to complete pre-employment checks. This includes a Working with Children Check and National Police Check.