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

• Provides quality clinical work to clients (individual, couples, families – which may include children and groups) across a broad spectrum of issues
• Works across all client types (individual, couples, families – may include direct work with children and groups) including complex intakes / assessments
• Provide counselling – managing increasingly complex cases
• Participate in related clinical activities
• Participate in regular case consultation/supervision
• Maintain case notes, client and administrative records
• In addition, one day a week, you’ll facilitate groups, creating a therapeutic learning environment for clients to explore individual, couple and family relationship issues

The details

• Permanent part time role, based at Bathurst
• 2 days counselling and 1 day group work facilitation
• Approx $41-$42 per hour + super + salary packaging benefits

What you’ll bring

• Tertiary and/or postgraduate qualifications in Social Work, Psychology or other relevant disciplines including counselling or an equivalent qualification
• A desire to develop your experience and do further studies in couple and family therapy
• Training or experience in working with Family and Domestic Violence, Parenting groups, Post separation programs and children in groups is desirable
• Minimum two years’ experience working in the human services environment working directly with clients
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively in a team;
• Efficient administrative skills including the use of information technology and data bases for communication, data collection and evaluation
• Previous experience in group work training

Why work with us?

• Make a genuine difference to the relationship wellbeing of individuals, couples and families; everyday!
• Strong clinical and supervision framework to deepen our practice excellence
• Professional development programs available
• Work alongside people who truly care about what you achieve together
• We offer many benefits including flexible working options, salary packaging, additional leave days and fitness passport
• 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 (CALD)
• 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 Australian

Next Steps

Interested? Apply today as we want to move quickly with this recruitment.

It is a condition of employment that employees who are eligible to receive the COVID-19 vaccination must be fully vaccinated and comply with current COVID-19 booster vaccinations in order to perform duties at any of our workplaces from the 1st January 2022. 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.