Allied Health Consultant

**About the Role**

This role will provide evidence based best-practice assessment, diagnosis, formulation, treatment and prevention of a wide range of mental health disorders and other systemic barriers preventing clients from entering employment or beginning study.

You will be supporting our customers to address their non-vocational barriers and develop their skills and job readiness. The role may also involve delivery of training relevant to the field, and consultancy with site staff and other service providers.

**This role is being offered on a full time, ongoing basis and will service customer across the Mile End, Salisbury, Enfield and Modbury area.**

**About You**

To be successful in the role you will be able to:

- Demonstrate strong interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills;
- Prove your ability to employ a range of strategies to effectively resolve conflict;
- Show sound understanding of available mental health and other support services;
- Prove your experience in providing individual therapy, group therapy and case management;
- Demonstrate the ability to critically analyse or evaluate issues related to psychological care in a manner which can be applied to quality activities, service evaluation or research;
- Demonstrate sound knowledge of the local labour market;
- Demonstrate experience working effectively with a culturally diverse range of people;
- Demonstrate understanding of barriers to employment for disadvantaged individuals and Communities;
- Demonstrated understanding of case management framework; and
- Demonstrate a basic understanding of WHS Responsibilities.

You will also be required to:

- Hold a current driver’s licence;
- Have a Bachelor Degree or higher qualification in Behavioural Sciences, Psychology, Social Work, Mental Health Counselling; and
- Social Workers must be registered with the Australian Association of Social Workers (AASW) (SA staff only).

**About Us**

Workskil Australia is a national not-for-profit and charitable organisation, with almost 40 proud years of supporting Australians to achieve sustained economic and social self-reliance. We do this by providing a range of employment, work experience, disability, youth, Indigenous and community services across New South Wales, South Australia, Western Australia and Victoria.

We promote a positive team culture where high performance can thrive. We value excellent customer service, integrity and honesty in our employees. We look for employees who have a genuine passion for working with those in need, are results-focused and can contribute to a strong team. In return for your truly valued contribution we will support your ongoing career development and offer a friendly, supportive & innovative environment for you to thrive.

We work hard every day to:

- Work with our Customers to secure great long-term job opportunities.
- Meet the labour needs of business and industry through quality recruitment services at no cost.
- Assist businesses with diversifying their workforce.
- Provide specialist employment and community services to people seeking work, including people with mental illness, injury or disability and Indigenous Australians.
- Deliver work experience projects to the community.

Our values remain at the heart of everything we do and we strive to conduct our business with the highest degree of care, integrity, respect, honesty and service. We believe that the care, respect and high level of service we give to all of our customers is our key point of difference.

**Remuneration**

A competitive salary will be negotiated commensurate with skills and experience. As Workskil Australia is a public benevolent institution, we can also offer a portion of the salary through tax effective salary packaging.

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