AddressFamily and Relationship Counselling Program - Team Leader
Hobart Tasmania, .8 FTE
CatholicCare Tasmania are offering a rare opportunity for an experienced and suitably qualified Family and Relationship Counsellor to fill a Team Leader role supporting our Southern team.
The Family and Relationship Program is funded by the Commonwealth Government Department Social Services (DSS), with the expectation that CatholicCare Tasmania will also apply a fee for service policy to clients, according to DSS Guidelines. CatholicCare Tasmania, as a Child Inclusive Agency, is committed to working in the best interests of young people.
The program aims to assist all families, couples, individuals and children though we prioritise those most disadvantaged or at risk. The program provides counselling, group work, mediation/support for separated families, specialised family violence interventions and family relationship skills and training.
What we can offer you?
- Access to salary packaging – reduce taxable income and increase your take home pay.
- Continuous learning and development, regular clinical supervision and support.
- Additional 4 paid days bonus leave for Easter Tuesday and the Christmas period. Plus, other generous leave provisions such as additional long service leave and paid parental leave.
- Be a part of a team dedicated to supporting and improving Tasmania’s individual, Family and community wellbeing.
What will you do?
- Create a harmonious and productive working environment by always setting and adhering to high Professional integrity and performance standards.
- Provide counselling to individuals, couples and families using appropriate theoretical models of intervention and EAP services.
- Engage with and assess client needs and develop appropriate therapeutic intervention strategies.
- As part of the wider Family, Counselling and Therapeutic leadership team, participate in and promote initiatives to standardise and develop internal systems while contributing to activity work plans and other funding agreements.
- Provide support to team members via regular supervision to develop practitioners’ skills and knowledge and enhance their clinical practice through consultation, participation in professional learning activities, and participation in peer reviews.
What can you bring to us?
- Detailed knowledge of family violence issues, including good understanding of impacting issues such as mental health, substance abuse and poverty, with a minimum of 3 – 5 years of clinical experience.
- Demonstrated experience and training in relationship and family counselling, including work with children individually, and in groups in a child focused/inclusive practice.
- Demonstrated ability to lead teams through process reforms, organisational changes or restructures.
- Proven ability to supervise a team of Counsellors, Social Workers and/or similar allied health professionals and network effectively, including resourcefulness and organisation skills.
Enquiries:
For a confidential discussion about this role, please call Elizabeth on 0461 354 ***.
Ready to apply?
With guidance from the Position Description, please address each of the points in the selection criteria and let us know why you are the right person to fill this role (maximum two pages). Please refer to https://catholiccaretas.org.au/get-involved
Closing date:
Applications close 5pm Monday the 27th May 2024.
The Archdiocese of Hobart and CatholicCare Tasmania are a child safe organisation and are committed to providing safe communities that uphold the dignity and rights of all children, young people, and vulnerable adults. As part of our commitment we require all applicants to undergo an extensive screening process prior to employment such as a requirement to hold a current registration to Work with Vulnerable People and Police Check.
CatholicCare Tasmania is an equal employment opportunity employer and is committed to embracing diversity. We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with a disability and people from culturally diverse backgrounds. We promote and support a family friendly workplace.
CatholicCare Tasmania acknowledges with respect the traditional custodians of Country in Tasmania, their elders past, present, and emerging.
