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Mental Health Counsellor - Specialist Mental Health Service for CALD Communities

Survivors of Torture and Trauma Assistance and Rehabilitation Service

Location: Salisbury, Adelaide SA

Job description

  • Fixed term Contract to 30 June 2025
  • Part-time (0.8) FTE to Full-time (1.0) FTE negotiable
  • Immediate start

PD Mental Health Counsellor CALD mental health

ABOUT THE POSITION:

Salary is based on the Social, Community, Home Care and Disability Services Industry Award (SCHADS) 2010 - Level 5.

  • Fixed-term part-time position (full-time negotiable)
  • Based at our Salisbury office. There may be a need, on occasion, for evening/weekend work (penalty rates would apply)

The Mental Health Counsellor will be responsible for:

  • Managing intake, assessment and triage for the program and support the Clinical Lead to deliver a uniform approach to intake, assessment, and triage processes
  • Working collaboratively with clients and their families and carers and clinicians’ services to conduct comprehensive assessments, identify needs, aspirations and goals and assist with both warm referrals and other referrals to partner agencies and services, as appropriate
  • Delivering low intensity mental health supports to individuals, including providing brief interventions for common conditions
  • Supporting clients who require more structured psychological therapy to connect with appropriate mental health services, mental health clinicians and/or their GP.
  • Maintain timely client records by documenting work with clients in STTARS electronic client record management system
  • Collect required client data to enable quality service delivery, reporting to funders and service evaluation
  • Foster and maintain relationships with external stakeholders to ensure good communication and clear referral pathways.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:

The applicant must:

  • Hold a valid and current Working with Children Check (WWCC)
  • Hold a valid and current National Criminal History Check (Police Clearance)
  • Be an Australian resident or hold a current Australian work permit (note: employees of STTARS are required to maintain their right to work in Australia for the duration of their employment and therefore must comply with all terms of any such grant of a right to work in Australia).

ESSENTIAL QUALIFICATIONS/EXPERIENCE:

The applicant must have appropriate training and qualifications to deliver evidence-based mental health services. For example:

  • Registered membership with the Psychotherapy and Counselling Federation of Australia (PACFA) – provisional or clinical; or
  • Membership with the Australian Counselling Association (ACA) (any level); or
  • Tertiary qualification in an Allied Health discipline or equivalent (including psychology, occupational therapy or social work); or
  • Certificate IV in Mental Health, Allied Health Assistant, or equivalent.

The applicant must also have completed recognised training in the delivery of cognitive behaviour therapy, psychosocial assessment, and risk assessment training.

HOW TO APPLY:

As a team member at STTARS you can expect to be working alongside a highly skilled and professional team who are focused on the health and wellbeing of our clients. We welcome applicants with lived experience and/or from a refugee background.

For further information about the role please contact Mehak Khandeparkar, Clinical Lead (Psychologist), on 8206 8900.

Please send your resume and a short cover letter to jobs@sttars.org.au telling us why you are interested in this role and outlining your skills and experience against the selection criteria in the Position Description above.

Recruitment activities will commence immediately and close when we have found a suitable candidate so don’t delay in submitting your application.

Only successful applicants will be contacted.


A position description is attached.