Your Role

We are seeking a Counsellor position to provide high quality short term focused counselling services to our clients. In particular, we are looking for someone who utilises strength -based frameworks to provide therapeutic services including counselling, information and referral services to support people to improve their quality of life.

This role is full time permanent roles reporting to the Team Leader Allied Health, based within the community across Northern/Western Sydney, and our Chatswood office with the opportunity for flexible work arrangements including the potential for working from home.

Who We Are:

Your Side Australia is a leading provider of support services for older people, vulnerable seniors, and carers throughout Sydney. For 30 years we've kept our commitment to give people greater choice and to enhance their independence and wellbeing.

Your Side provides personalised case management to arrange the care and support that allows older people and their families to get on with living a good life. Our consultants help clients navigate the complexities of the Aged Care system and ensure they get the most from their funding with the right, quality-checked support services. Your Side is a not-for-profit aged care provider - all income surplus is invested back into the organisation and services we provide. We continuously strive to improve our model: with client’s needs at the centre, supporting people through key life changes, and building integrated pathways with the wider health and community services system.

Your Side Culture

Your Side provides a supportive, flexible workplace and fun is our middle name. All our team members are passionate about care in the community and supporting older Australians and vulnerable people to live their best lives. Our values ensure we provide quality services that put people first, and that includes our people. As one of us, you must love food, fun, dressing up and pets – including ducks. Well, it’s not essential that you love those things, but it will help.

Our vision is that every life can be a good one.

Key Responsibilities:

• Undertake assessments to identify effective counselling interventions and support.
• Provide counselling services to clients over the phone, face to face, via video conference or other technological means.
• Provide information and referral to support individuals and families to access appropriate resources and services.
• Engage clients using appropriate strengths based approaches and risk minimisation processes.
• Coordinate with other service providers including government departments and agencies, schools, health services, GP’s and allied health providers to ensure services are delivered.
• Other tasks as assigned by Team Leader

Essential Criteria:

• A minimum of a current Australian Counselling Association accreditation Level 2; or a Psychotherapy and Counselling Federation of Australia Provisional Accreditation; or an Australian Association of Social Workers accreditation – ordinary member.
• At least 3 years’ experience providing counselling services.
• Ability to apply counselling theories, skills and knowledge to clients experiencing issues.
• Knowledge of available referral services.
• Experience facilitating programs for individuals and groups desirable.
• Current Australian driver’s licence and access to a car as this role will be community and office based.
• Understanding of the needs of diverse communities such as Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD), and gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) communities.

Your “why”

There are many reasons Your Side is a great place to work. We have relaxed and flexible conditions that include working from home, dressing for the work you do, and welcoming (well-behaved) pets in the office. But the most important reason people want to work for Your Side is because everything we do is centred around care and support. We are true non-profit with the sole purpose of helping people in need.

how to apply

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We are interviewing candidates immediately as they apply. If you are interested, please submit your application today! Please note, while this is a hybrid role, candidates must be able to attend the offices in Chatswood, Sydney as required.

If you have any questions or require further information, please contact HR on [email protected] using the subject line: Counsellor enquiry via EthicalJobs.

We are handling the hiring process internally, so we request that recruitment agencies please refrain from reaching out to us.

D&I Statement

Your Side is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive work environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We know our team and our organisation is stronger with a diversity of backgrounds and experience, including lived experience of the issues we work on.

We strongly encourage people from under-represented groups to apply, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, CALD and LGBTQIA+ communities, and people living with a disability. Applicants are welcome to access the Your Side Reflect Reconciliation Action Plan 2021-2022.

Acknowledgement Of Country

Your Side acknowledges the Traditional custodians of this land, the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, and wherever we meet, we pay our respects to elders, past and present.