Be part of the solution!

• Opportunity to grow and develop digital service skill
• $65,000 – $69,000 p/a pro rata depending on experience
• Great salary packaging options
• Located in Crows Nest, NSW

Guide Peoples’ Paths

The Butterfly Foundation is changing lives and we need people on the ground to help make this happen. With regular shifts available on the Butterfly National Helpline ED HOPE, we are looking for applicants who are experienced as counsellors and who genuinely empathic of other’s needs. A practiced listener, you will use your clinical knowledge of eating disorders, and your depth of understanding to support people who are experiencing eating disorders and also their carers.

Through these channels you will rapidly create a safe, supportive and recovery-focused environment for people with eating disorders and their families/carers and friends, in order to empower them to work towards recovery.

The Role

The Butterfly Foundation is looking for people with sound counselling skills and a level of understanding about eating disorders to provide support to Australians living with eating disorders via their National Helpline.

The Butterfly National Helpline 1800 ED HOPE operates from 8am to midnight, 7 days a week.

We are currently seeking a passionate counselling professional who is available to deliver eating disorder counselling services. You must be available to undertake a minimum of 2 shifts per week. The possible shift times are outlined below.

Shifts Currently Vacant:

Choose Your Days! (Minimum 2 days)

Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday or Sunday: 4.30pm – 12.30am

Essential Skills/Knowledge:

• Qualifications: minimum - bachelor’s degree in psychology, counselling or social work.
• Full or provisional registration as a psychologist; full registration as a counsellor or psychotherapist with PACFA or ACA, or degree certified as a social worker.
• Direct experience of working with people with an eating disorder or other mental illness in a counselling or support role.
• An understanding of other mental health conditions commonly co-morbid with eating disorders (e.g. depression, anxiety, obsessive-compulsive disorder) and an ability to provide counselling, support and further referrals with respect to these areas.
• An understanding of the nature of supportive counselling and of the difference between short-term supportive counselling and longer term therapeutic counselling.
• A commitment to recovery focused practice.