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Counsellor chez Unitingcareqld

Unitingcareqld · Maroochydore, Australie · Onsite

106 080,00 $AU  -  106 080,00 $AU

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Counsellor | Community Mental Health Service | Maroochydore - Sunshine Coast

  • Employment Term: Permanent, Full-Time (76 hours per fortnight)
  • Location: Maroochydore - Sunshine Coast
  • Remuneration: $51 p/hr + Super + NFP Salary Packaging (save tax and increase your take home pay)

Make a meaningful difference with UnitingCare Queensland

At UnitingCare we are leaders in crisis response, the protection of vulnerable people and children, financial resilience and family wellbeing. Our FaDS (Family and Disability Services) team work passionately across Queensland to make a meaningful difference in people’s lives.

As a Counsellor, you’ll be encouraged to grow, develop and feel empowered to make the everyday easier for the people we care so passionately about.  Let’s make a meaningful difference, together!

Your part in our UnitingCare team 

As a part of our UnitingCare Qld Family and Individual Support Programs on the Sunshine Coast, this position provides individual, couple and group counselling and education with an aim to strengthen family relationships, prevent breakdown and ensure the wellbeing and safety of children and adults who live in all kinds of families.

This role involves:

  • Providing non-clinical adult counselling and education with an aim to assist a person to cope with challenges and make positive changes in their life.
  • Providing a therapeutic process that provides a compassionate environment for individuals to express their feelings, be supported to understand, manage identified emotions, behaviours, and intra-and interpersonal relationships with more clarity and purpose.
  • Using range of different counselling approaches and techniques can be utilised depending upon the person and nature and complexity of a person’s identified needs

What makes a difference for us?

  • Possession of a Degree in Psychology, Social Work or Behavioural Science from a recognised tertiary institution and demonstrated skills and sound knowledge gained through substantial experience in a similar role. 
  • Have sound knowledge of and/or demonstrated ability to provide counselling and related services within a therapeutic context to a range of clients with issues including, but not limited to, domestic and family violence, sexual abuse, child abuse, relationship discord and grief and loss.
  • Current Drivers Licence.
  • Working with Children Check (Blue Card)

Applications will be reviewed as they are received, and therefore may result in the role closing early if the right applicant is found.

What makes a difference for you?

 

  • Flexible work arrangements to support work-life balance 

  • NFP Salary Packaging: Save tax and increase your take home pay by salary packaging your everyday living expenses and bills (up to $15,900) and meal entertainment (up to $2,650) per annum. To learn more about this benefit watch the video via the following link: Salary Packaging Explained  

  • A recognition and rewards platform, providing employee discounts at hundreds of retailers, including everyday expenses, holidays, health insurance, annual awards celebration, wellbeing and employee assistance programs  

  • 12 weeks paid parental leave and 2 weeks paid partner leave, available after 6 months service, in addition to the government scheme  

  • Diversity and inclusive leave, offering paid gender affirmation leave and cultural leave options (paid and unpaid) for those who may celebrate Lunar New Year, Diwali, Ramadan, NAIDOC weeks and other significant cultural events  

  • Career development opportunities to challenge yourself, grow and make a meaningful difference   

  • A positive and inclusive team based on respect, shared standards, strong values and a commitment to serving others 

 

We’d love you to be part of our UnitingCare family  

 

Joining our FaDS, team, you’ll also be welcomed as part of the UnitingCare family. The second-largest Queensland employer, we’re a proud not-for-profit with more than 16,500 staff and 9,000 volunteers across our brands of BlueCare, Lifeline, ARRCS, The Wesley Hospital, Buderim Private Hospital, St Stephen’s Hospital, and St Andrew’s War Memorial Hospital, and have been leading by example for more than 100 years.  

 

Child safe, Child friendly 

 

UnitingCare is committed to being a Child Safe, Child Friendly organisation and will:  

 

  • provide welcoming, safe and nurturing services for children  

  • implement measures to prevent child abuse and neglect within our services 

  • appropriately and immediately address child abuse and neglect if it does occur 

 

Diversity & Inclusion   

 

Our approach is simple – everybody is welcome here.  At UnitingCare, diversity is at the core of our who we are, our mission and our values. We are committed to providing equal opportunities to all employees no matter their sex, race, culture, sexual orientation, disability or gender identity. Demonstrating our commitment to reconciliation and building long-term employment opportunities for First Nations peoples, UnitingCare strongly encourages Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants for this position.    

 

Safe workplace   

 

We work hard to make our services welcoming and safe for every person. We are united in keeping children, young people and the elderly safe from harm, within our services, workplaces and the communities we support. We are committed to speaking up loudly for their safety.  

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