Counsellor (Heo 8)

Based in the Student Engagement Unit at the City East and City West campuses
- Part-time (0.6FTE), fixed term contract until November 2025
- Commencement Salary: $112,143 pro rata per annum (plus 17% superannuation)

**About You**

You have demonstrated experience working as a counsellor and are comfortable in delivering short term interventions to students. Building relationships comes easy to you, whether with the University community or community-based services. Continuous improvement is of high importance, and you regularly monitor, evaluate and review service quality and effectiveness.

**About the Role**

Reporting to the Manager: Counselling, you will provide brief intervention counselling services to individual students, including face to face, telephone, online and crisis counselling, as well as conducting workshops which promote student mental health and wellbeing. The Counsellor also contributes to resource and policy development and works collaboratively across the University to address issues that impact on students learning outcomes.

**About the Student Engagement Unit**

The Student Engagement Unit (SEU) is responsible for the strategic development and delivery of student facing services that will enhance the on-campus and off-campus student experience to ensure all students, regardless of background and location, have an optimal university experience.

SEU services include Orientation, Leadership Development Programs, UniSA Sport, Career Services, Student Life, Residential Life, Student Wellbeing, Student Counselling, International Student Support, Learning Advice, Wirringka Student Services and Access and Inclusion Services. The Student Engagement Unit is led by the Director: Student Engagement Unit.

**About UniSA**

The University of South Australia is Australia’s University of Enterprise. Our culture of innovation is anchored around global and national links to academic, research and industry partners. Our graduates are the new urban professionals, global citizens at ease with the world and ready to create and respond to change. Our research is inventive and adventurous and we create new knowledge that is central to global economic and social prosperity.

**Essential Skills and Experience**
- Eligibility to register with the Psychology Board of Australia through the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA), and/or the Australian Association of Social Workers (AASW)
- Significant demonstrated experience as a counsellor, with evidence of a high level of competence in delivering services in a range of settings to individuals or groups
- Demonstrated experience in online counselling and highly competent in using appropriate technology to deliver effective services
- Demonstrated understanding of, and commitment to, equity and social justice within a tertiary education context
- Highly developed interpersonal and communication skills appropriate to working effectively as a Counsellor in a range of contexts and settings including as part of a team that works flexibly and strategically with students and staff from diverse cultural backgrounds

**Benefits**

Getting a great job working with the best is just the start. UniSA rewards its staff with a wide variety of benefits such as:

- Access to great personal development opportunities
- Generous superannuation contributions of 17%
- A range of salary packaging options, including vehicle leasing, laptops and car parking fees
- A variety of leave arrangements

**Culture**

**Start Your Unstoppable Career**

**Applications close: 11:30pm Wednesday 19th February 2025**
- Applications welcomed from Australian or NZ citizens, Australian permanent residents and those who have the legal right to work in Australia for the term of appointment._
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