Counsellor

About us

Socially Speaking is an online private practice, with a special interest in helping teens and young adults make friends and go on dates. Most of our clients have autism, ADHD, or other psychosocial challenges. We facilitate the PEERS program (we have even updated it internally to be more neurotic-afforming), life coaching, and neuroACT.

We are entirely telehealth, and although you will be working independently, we have a good team culture and chat throughout the week via WhatsApp where we discuss our clients, brain storm together, and share resources.

We are looking to hire a counsellor for a group starting on the 26th of March at 5:15pm-6:45pm AEDT (NSW, VIC, ACT, TAS). It will run this time weekly for 16 weeks of content. 

Qualifications & experience

• Bachelor of counselling
• Experience working with families and/or teens and young adults on the autism spectrum

Tasks & responsibilities

• Counsellor will be running the PEERS program for the young adults group, specifically working with the “social coach” who is either a parent or support worker, helping them learn the content, and supporting them to support their young people 
• Counsellors are responsible for liaising with your professional partner, discussing conversations had during the session, and how to best support the young people
• Counsellors will be responsible for some light admin tasks such as sending group reminders and documenting attendance. About an hour of admin per group paid at $40 an hour, as apposed to $86 per hour for the group itself (each group earning you approximately $170)
• There may be the possibility of needing to organise a “catch up” session if a participant can't make it to the group, so ideally you are flexible and able to take on another hour during the week if possible

Benefits

• Work from home after hours, a good chance to learn extra skills and earn extra pocket money
• Full training provided contributing to your PD hours
• Above award pay