AddressChild Protection Counsellor
Wallsend Campus
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander candidates are encouraged to apply.
About us:
The Hunter Child Protection Counselling Service (CPCS) is a unit of the Violence, Abuse and Neglect stream within Children, Young People and Families network based at Harker Building, Wallsend Health Campus.
About the job:
- Hunter CPCS provides therapeutic intervention, care coordination and advocacy to Children and Young People where risk of significant harm concerns have been identified (e.g. physical abuse, neglect, domestic and family violence), and their families or caregivers.
- In this role you will be part of a small team incorporating several Child Protection Counsellors and an Aboriginal Health and Family Worker. We are committed and enthusiastic about providing high-quality trauma-informed care to families. We love a challenge and are keen to grow and learn together to continue to improve services and increase safety for the families that we work with.
- We are an outreach service, providing therapeutic support to families in their local community. We work closely with the systems and organisations that the family is linked with. We provide best practice and support families using clinical review, supervision and training to support our work.
- In this team we will work together to help you learn about the role, with a mix of formal orientation and learning together on the ground. We link with Child Protection Counsellors throughout the District and are continually building our practice skills. You will have access to training through EVAC, as well as individual and group supervision.
Benefits:
- Superannuation contributions 11%.
- Four (4) weeks annual leave for temporary and permanent employees (pro-rata if part time).
- Salary packaging - Up to $9k for living expenses + $2.6k meal & entertainment + Novated leasing.
- Fitness Passport.
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for staff and family members.
- Opportunity to work and collaborate with a range of non-clinical and clinical professionals.
- Working for a highly regarded public health facility, where supporting the local community is at the forefront of our business strategy.
- Career Development opportunity.
Requirements:Our successful candidate will possess the following:
- Must hold tertiary qualifications and relevant experience in Social Work, Psychology or Clinical Psychology which provides eligibility or membership with the relevant professional association and/or holds general registration with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency.
- Willingness and ability to participate on a Violence Abuse and Neglect on-call roster.
- Eligibility to drive in NSW and willingness and ability to travel for work purposes.
- High level skills and experience in working within the Child Protection field including with complex and high-risk situations.
- A sound understanding of trauma-informed care and understand the dynamics of domestic and family violence. Experience providing counselling to adults and or children using evidence-based therapies.
- Conduct duties with a high level of autonomy and independence but also enjoy working as part of a team, you will be supported by ongoing supervision (individual and group) and training.
Additional information:
- An eligibility list will be created for future permanent full or part time and temporary full or part time vacancies.
- We are unable to accommodate visa sponsorship for applicants requiring a visa for this position.
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Information for Applicants:
Applicants will be assessed against the essential requirements and selection criteria contained within the position description (link below).
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This is a Category A position. Recommended applicants will be reviewed for compliance with NSW Health policy directive for Category A positions prior to offer. All new employees must agree to comply with the requirements outlined in the policy.
All NSW Health workers are required to have completed a primary course of a COVID-19 vaccine which has been approved or recognised by the Therapeutics Goods Administration (TGA). New applicants must have completed the vaccination course prior to commencement with NSW Health or provide an approved medical contraindication certificate (AIR Immunisation History Statement) certifying the worker cannot have any approved COVID-19 vaccines available in NSW.
Acceptable proof of COVID-19 vaccination is the Australian Immunisation Register (AIR) Immunisation History Statement (IHS), or AIR COVID-19 Digital Certificate, or AIR COVID-19 and Influenza IHS. Booster doses are highly recommended for all health care workers who have completed the primary course of COVID-19 vaccinations.
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