Job Summary
- Level: SCHADS award Level 7.1 ($56.13/hr)
- Applications close:
- Job posted on: 24th Jun 2024
Ruby Gaea Darwin Centre Against Sexual Violence provides community based sexual assault counselling, education, and advocacy in the Northern Territory. We are seeking a person with well-developed knowledge and expertise in working therapeutically within children and women who have experienced sexual violence. The ability to deeply listen, build relationships, and communicate sensitively with people from diverse backgrounds and life experience is essential. We also conduct community education for schools, universities, and professional organisations.
This is a flexible role, and our goal is to offer staff a well-supported workplace with weekly team meetings, one-on-one meetings with the manager, regular professional development and training, and end-of week team reflection. Ruby Gaea offers six weeks annual leave (inclusive of our Christmas shut-down period) to all staff.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Women are strongly encouraged to apply.
Minimum qualifications: Possession of a degree in the Social or Behavioral Sciences, with at least two-years' experience in a counselling role; registration with a relevant professional body. Experience in counselling children and adults who have been impacted by sexual violence is highly desirable.
The role of Counsellor/Educator is to provide crisis counselling, ongoing counselling, and advocacy for people who have experienced sexual violence at any time in their lives. 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. Ruby Gaea’s counselling methodology 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. This is a flexible position where the balance between counsellor and educator will be determined by the needs of the service as we grow.
The Counsellor/Educator will provide the following services:
The successful candidate must have a current NT driving license.
Our organisation takes child protections seriously, and as an employee of Ruby Gaea, you are required to:
The successful applicant will be subject to a Working with Children Check and Criminal History Records Check. Our organisation undertakes several screening processes to ensure the appropriate protection of children in its care. This includes reference checks and professional registration checks.