Job description
About Relationships Australia
Relationships Australia NSW (RANSW) provides a safe, judgement-free environment where individuals, couples and families can address the critical matters impacting their relationships, and their lives.
What you’ll do
You’ll provide high-quality counselling and therapy to couples, individuals and families to address the issues impacting their relationships. This can include general conflict, communication, domestic violence, mental health, addiction issues and child-protection. You’ll use a Family Systems Framework in your counselling and provide information and referrals to improve the wellbeing of your clients. Sessions will be face to face, telephone, and online.
What you’ll bring
- Postgrad Relationship Counselling or Couple and Family Counselling qualifications
- Registered or eligible to be registered with PACFA or ACA
- Experience working with individuals, couples and families using a robust Family Systems clinical framework
- Strong understanding of family dynamics, child protection, domestic violence, mental health, and addiction
- A calm, professional and compassionate approach when engaging with clients
The details
- 12 month maternity contract in Penrith
- 3 days per week – business hours Monday & Tuesday, 11am – 7pm, Wednesday or Thursday, 9am – 5pm
- Potential to work 1 day from home dependent on business needs
- Approx $46 – $51 per hour (depending on skills & experience), 11.5 % super, 17.5% leave loading and tax-free salary packaging up to $15,900. (Increase your take home pay! Calculate Your Savings at https://www.salary.com.au/calculate-your-savings)
- Extra annual days between Christmas and New Year
- Excellent professional development, regular clinical supervision
Why work with us?
- Empower people to have healthy, well-being and meaningful relationships by addressing the issues impacting them
- Work with a supportive, highly skilled and dedicated team who care about what you achieve together
- Strong clinical and supervision framework to deepen our practice excellence
- We offer many benefits including flexible working options, additional leave days, Employee Referral Reward program and a fitness passport
- Extra Income – You can salary package up to $15,900 pa of your pre-tax salary for everyday expenses and up to $2,650 pa for entertainment expenses, meaning you take home even more pay!
- We value inclusion and belonging. We want a workforce that is reflective of all the communities we serve. To strengthen our inclusive practice we have employee action groups: Accessibility, Reconciliation, Gender, Sex & Sexually Diverse and Culturally and Linguistically Diverse
- We are committed to deepening our relationships with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. We have a stretch Reconciliation Action Plan to guide our efforts to build strong relationships, increased employment, and enhanced respect between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and other communities
Next Steps
Interested? Apply today as we want to move quickly with this recruitment.
It is a condition of employment from 1 January 2022, that employees who are eligible to receive the COVID-19 vaccination must be fully vaccinated in order to perform duties at any of our workplaces. If you are not medically eligible to be vaccinated against COVID-19, you must provide Relationships Australia NSW with acceptable evidence of having a health condition for which obtaining a COVID-19 vaccination is contraindicated.