POSITION SUMMARY:

• Level: SCHADS award Level 6
• Employment Status: Part-Time/ Flexible for six months. Possibility of extension dependent on funding.
• Reports directly to: General Manager

Minimum qualifications: Possession of a degree in the Social or Behavioural Sciences, with at least two-years' experience in a counselling role including counselling people who are victim/survivors of sexual assault and experience in counselling children and young people. Experience providing a culturally safe space for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people is essential.

POSITION ROLE:

Provide ongoing counselling, and advocacy for people who have experienced sexual violence at any time in their lives. Some crisis counselling is involved although this is minimal. This position of trust demands the highest levels of professionalism, ethical behaviour and an awareness of multiple factors which will influence individual client’s responses to both the trauma and the counselling provided. The counselling methodology of DCASV includes counselling from evidence-based best practice, client-centred, strengths-based and trauma-informed frameworks.

This role also has an education component that includes development and delivery of community education in schools and for professional bodies where required by the service. Essential to this role will be the ability to create, develop, and expand excellent working relationships with a wide variety of stakeholders, and to develop and deliver presentations in line with our aims and with an understanding of the audience.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

The Counsellor will provide the following services:

• Provide effective, evidence-based and culturally sensitive trauma-informed counselling to women, and to children (aged 5 to 17 years) who have experienced sexual violence either recently or in the past
• Ensure work practices are ethical; in line with evidence based, trauma informed therapeutic practices; DCASV policies and procedures; the code of conduct, and practices of the relevant professional registration body.
• Provide individual and group counselling for women and children survivors of sexual violence.
• Comply with information collection, quality improvement, risk management, record keeping and administrative procedures and practices in line with legal requirements and DCASV policy
• Collaborate in the development and delivery of group work programs
• Participate in the development of relevant resources and materials for survivors of sexual violence
• Record counselling case notes and client statistics in a timely manner consistent with confidentiality and professional standards
• Work as part of a cohesive and energised team, have the capacity to work as the sole counsellor in the agency and, work with limited supervision on relevant projects.
• Develop and deliver community education to schools and professional bodies as required by the general manager.

The successful candidate must have a current NT driving license.

SAFEGUARDING CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE:

Our organisation takes child protections seriously, and as an employee of DCASV, you are required to:

• Provide a welcoming and safe environment for children and young people;
• Promote the safety and wellbeing of children and young people to whom we provide services;
• Ensure that your interactions with children and young people are positive and safe;
• Provide adequate care and supervision of children and young people in your charge;
• Act as a positive role model for children and young people;
• Report any suspicions, concerns, allegations or disclosures of alleged abuse to management;
• Maintain valid Working With Children documentation;
• Undergo periodic national criminal history record checks;
• Report to management any criminal charges or convictions you receive during the course of your employment/volunteering that may indicate a possible risk to children and young people.

CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT:

The successful applicant will be subject to a Working with Children Check and Criminal History Records Check. Our organisation undertakes screening processes to ensure the appropriate protection of children in its care. This includes reference checks and professional registration checks.

OTHER DOCUMENTATION REQUIRED:

• Working with Children’s Card
• National Criminal History Records Check
• Current Drivers Licence
• Evidence of your Qualification
• Registration to a professional body