Regional Community Counsellor

**Your Opportunity**:
As the Regional Community Education Counsellor (Identified) you will:

- Provide educational counselling and support services within specific secondary schools to ensure that the best possible services are available to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander secondary students and communities. This may include individual and group support to students in the areas of personal, academic and social skills and behaviour management.
- Provide cross cultural awareness training to the broader school community in order to enhance understanding and empathy for the educational and related social needs of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander secondary students.

**Your Role**:
As the Regional Community Education Counsellor (Identified) you will:

- Develop and provide support service programs for schools that will assist in encouraging the educational participation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander secondary students. Such activities will include state and commonwealth funded school based programs.
- Establish and maintain links with external bodies and support services to meet the needs of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander secondary students.
- Manage the provision of educational counselling and support services.
- Provide advice on policies, operations and services to regional senior management.
- Plan and coordinate development programs and education and training activities.
- Develop activities which promote productive partnerships between individual and group members of the regional educational community.
- Coordinate, monitor and evaluate state and commonwealth funded regional programs and leading and/or participating in regional, school and community based teams.
- Provide professional supervision of Community Education Counsellors working in schools.

**A mandatory requirement of this role is**:

- When working in regulated employment an employee must have a current Working with Children Clearance (blue card) issued by Blue Card Services.
- For this position, it is a genuine occupational requirement that it be filled by an Aboriginal person or a Torres Strait Islander person as set out in Section 7 of the Anti Discrimination Act 1991 for the purposes contained in Section 25 of that Act.

Verification of Aboriginality and/or Torres Strait Island heritage
- For administrative purposes, in relation to an Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander role, an Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander person is a person who:

- identifies as an Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander person
- is of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander descent
- is accepted as an Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander person by the Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander community in which he or she lives.
- Note, that by definition a person who is not an Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander cannot be employed (on any basis) to perform the duties of an Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander identified role.

Applicants to this position may have to provide confirmation of their Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander heritage. Requesting proof of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander heritage from applicants helps to make sure that this intention is honoured.

**How to Apply**:

- Attach a brief resume including contact details for 2 referees (referees should have an understanding of your relevant previous work history).
- Attach a 2-page written statement in response to the attached role description.

Applications remain current for 12 months from the closing date and may be considered for appointment to identical or similar vacancies within the Department.
Applications from recruitment agencies will not be accepted.
Salary rate shown is reflective of full-time (1.0 FTE).This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia License.