Counsellor - Family and Relationship Services - Ipswich, Australia - Mercy Community Service

Mercy Community Service

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Ipswich, Australia

1 week ago

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The Role

The Families and Young People Services team have an exciting opportunity for a highly motivated, knowledgeable, resilient, proactive and experienced professional counsellor to join Mercy Community's Family and Relationship Services (FaRS) Counselling program on a Permanent Part-time basis.

Based in our Ipswich office this position offers 45 hours per fortnight.

You will provide a range of services, including counselling, assessment, intervention planning and support, to adult individuals, couples and families, throughout their lifespan.

Specifically, the FaRS Counsellor position provides relationship and family counselling and therapeutic services to clients through a range of modalities including Family Systems Theory, Ecosystems Theory, Gottman's Approach, Expressive Therapies, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Trauma Informed Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (TF-CBT).

The counsellor position will provide engagement, assessment, counselling, support, planning, intervention and pre & post-evaluation.

This position also liaises and interacts with a broad network of stakeholders who participate in or impact on the successful outcomes for our clients and families.

This position offers a competitive salary of $82,044 - $88,288 plus superannuation (dependent on qualifications and experience).

You will also have the opportunity to increase your take-home pay by salary sacrificing and other benefits (more information below).

To be eligible for this position you will require:

Degree in Counselling, Psychology, Social Work or related discipline from a recognised institution.
Experience developing and implementing individualised and/or family intervention plans.
You will hold a Provisional Green (P2) or above Driver's License.
Ability to obtain positive notice in the Working with Children Check (Blue Card) and any other legislatively required personal history screening as required.
Evidence of a current vaccination against whooping cough or willingness to obtain prior to commencement unless applicable exemption provided as per the relevant Mercy Communities procedure.

Why choose to work at Mercy?
Mercy Community appreciates the important work that each person contributes to the success of our programs and services.

Being part of the Mercy team, means you have access to some fantastic benefits, such as we:

Pay for your Queensland Blue Card and NDIS Worker Screening Card when you need saving you up to $144 if you need both cards
Provide you and your immediate family free, professional and confidential counselling services. This includes specialised First Nations counsellors.
Provide the opportunity to increase your take home pay through the use of salary sacrificing and other packaging benefits up to $18,550 per annum is available to take advantage of
Provide access to novated leases for a vehicle to help reduce your taxable income.

Depending on your role, you may also be eligible:

For annual influenza and/or other vaccination reimbursements
To receive pay bonus' of $500 for successful employee referrals
To cash out or purchase annual leave and to
Take advantage of extra leave entitlements

We also ensure all our employees have access to a wide variety of excellent learning and development tools to continue your professional and personal development.

This includes making sure you have access to plenty of other career pathways and opportunities in the broader Families and Young People programs, or in other programs and services across Mercy.

About Us
Mercy Community is a Catholic not-for-profit, compassionately inspiring and supporting people to live hopeful, connected lives within inclusive communities.

We support families and young people, people living with a disability, and older people, and live by our values of Compassion, Integrity, Dignity and Empowerment.

We have been providing services and support for over 150 years and our team operates across a network that encompasses urban, rural and remote communities.

Please visit our website to find out more about our dedicated team and the work we do.

Mercy Community is delivering the Innovate Reconciliation Action Plan to boost our commitment to First Nations deliverables and actions.

How to Apply

Mercy is committed to Safeguarding taking actions to promote and ensure the welfare of children and adults at risk, protect them from abuse or neglect and supporting an awareness of whole community responsibility to help and protect all in need._