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Form of workExciting opportunity to work with disadvantaged members of the community to help them resolve barriers to sustainable employment!
Are you looking for a rewarding career or your next challenge?Join a team who are passionate about helping people gain sustainable employment. As an Occupational Rehabilitation Consultant, you will help empower disadvantaged individuals in the community to gain sustainable employment by resolving their barriers and providing tools and strategies that will assist them in removing their barriers, ultimately providing them with a pathway to sustainable employment.
This is an exciting opportunity for a permanent role or a sub-contractor who has qualifications in Rehabilitation Counselling, General Counselling, Social Work or a registered Psychologist.
You will:
- Provide relevant assessment and counselling services to our customers to assist in removing barriers
- Establish and maintain positive relationships with the customers and internal stakeholders
- Manage caseload for billing and ensure notes are accurate
- Provide a daily summary of customer counselling session outcomes and attendance to the Business Manager
- This role is a face to face counselling role based across a number of West Melbourne sites such as Werribee, Footscray, Sunshine and St Albans so the ability to travel is a must!
- Excellent salary package including base salary, superannuation, not-for-profit salary packaging (tax savings), a company laptop & iPhone and more
- A thriving organisation that genuinely cares for its people, our customers and the community at large
- Fantastic reward and recognition initiatives and ongoing learning and development (inc. full training upon commencement)
- Access to a generous range of employee benefits, including an annual Diversity Day, the ability to purchase additional annual leave and various healthy lifestyle initiatives
- Access to exclusive benefits and discounts from leading retailers
We are seeking an experienced person who has a strong interest in assisting clients with returning to the workforce by helping remove non-vocational barriers to employment. You will meet the following key requirements of the role:
- It is essential that you have a degree-level qualification in Rehabilitation Counselling, General Counselling, Social Work or a Registered Psychologist (with AHPRA)
- Ability to travel between sites
- Experience in one-to-one and group counselling
- Updating a database with clinical notes and billing
- Familiar with a fee-for-service basis
- Experience in working with the long-term unemployed is preferred
Celebrating 30 years in the employment services industry, WISE Employment is a not-for-profit organisation that is committed to providing quality employment, training and support to the disadvantaged members of our community, the long-term unemployed and people with disability. We aim to inspire, transform and empower people by connecting them with employers who care. WISE also operates two highly successful socially inclusive social enterprises along with a range of other programs and services aligned to the needs of the community.
Please visit our careers page, www.wiseemployment.com.au/careers-at-wise, to find out more about WISE.
Are you ready to Apply?
Please submit a current resume and cover letter that demonstrates how you meet the above-specified requirements.
If you have accessibility requirements or require an adjustment to participate in our recruitment and selection process, please contact our recruitment team at jarrod.prosser@wiseemployment.com.au
Here at WISE Employment, we actively encourage and welcome candidates from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, candidates with a disability, members of the LGBTQIA+ community and First Nation and Torres Strait Islander candidates.
