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 family therapy to young people (aged 10 – 21) and their families to enhance, repair and strengthen family relationships. You’ll use a Family Systems Framework in your work to address a range of issues including relationship difficulties, conflict, family upheavals due to separation and divorce, loss or trauma, addiction, self-harm, suicide ideation and other mental health presentations. Sessions will be face to face, on-line, and by telephone.
The details
- Part time position (3 or 4 days per week) in Parramatta
- $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)
What you’ll bring
- Relevant tertiary qualifications in social work, psychology or equivalent
- Post-grad qualifications or training in Counselling or Couple and Family Therapy
- A minimum of three (3) years’ experience in family therapy or counselling young people and/or families. This could include working in a mental health service
- Strong understanding of matters impacting young people like social media, technology, family dynamics, domestic and family violence, child safety, abuse, addiction, mental health and wellbeing
- A calm, professional and compassionate approach when engaging with clients
Why work with us?
- Empower people to have healthy, and meaningful relationships by addressing the issues impacting them and their well-being
- Work as part of 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!
RANSW requires the preferred applicant to undertake a National Criminal History Record Check and a Working with Children Check before employment.
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 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.
