ABOUT WOMEN’S HEALTH WEST

Women’s Health West (WHW) is the gender equity agency for the western metropolitan region of Melbourne. Our programs and services are for designed to redress gender inequity and benefit victim-survivors of family violence in Melbourne’s west. Our efforts are ultimately about supporting our communities to lead safe and healthy lives, and on changing the conditions that cause and maintain gender inequity.

ABOUT THE ROLE

The counselling program at WHW provides individual counselling and therapeutic group work to children and young people in the western metropolitan region to help them make sense of and recover from family violence.

The children’s counsellor reports to the counselling team leader and is responsible for providing trauma-informed and developmentally-appropriate counselling interventions to children who have been impacted by family violence.

The daily responsibilities of a Children’s Counsellor and Group Facilitator include, but are not limited to:

• Conducting assessment of children’s counselling needs,
• Providing child-focused counselling to children and their families,
• Planning, co-facilitating and evaluating therapeutic groups for children in the region,
• Providing support and secondary consultation to both internal and external family violence services, as well as child and family services, regarding the needs of children and the impact of family violence on children’s development.

The position is available on a permanent, part-time (0.8 FTE) basis and paid at WHW EA Level 5, pay point negotiable dependent on experience (ranges from 84K to 88K per annum pro rata EFT) + 10% superannuation.

WHY JOIN WOMEN’S HEALTH WEST?

Women’s Health West is a feminist organisation and culturally aligns to feminist values and practices.

We are guided by our values: Freedom, Connection, Resistance, Love and Creativity. These values are the foundation of how we conduct ourselves and interact with each other, our clients, members, community, suppliers, board, and other stakeholders.

Women’s Health West’s staff enjoy numerous benefits, including working with a professional and dedicated team of women, ongoing professional development and training, flexible working conditions, and access to an Employee Assistance Program.

Women’s Health West has a diverse workforce that is reflective of the communities we work with. We are committed to Equal Employment Opportunity, ethical practice, and the principles of cultural diversity and social inclusion. Women’s Health West has a Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP), which is endorsed by Reconciliation Australia.

We welcome applicants from a diverse range of backgrounds and experience, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, people with disabilities, and people who identify as LGBTI.

All appointments are made subject to the candidate providing a current satisfactory National Police Certificate conducted by the Victoria Police and a working with children check. You also need to provide international police check if you have worked overseas within the last ten years for a minimum of twelve months.

In accordance with government requirements, the successful candidate will be required to demonstrate evidence of an approved COVID-19 vaccination or authorised medical exemption.

Women’s Health West is an equal opportunity employer with VCAT Exemption No. H119-2017 to employ only people that identify as women, and to employ women from specified culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.

For further details, please contact Loni Wilson (Advisor – People and Culture) at [email protected], using the subject line: Children's Counsellor and Group Facilitator enquiry via EthicalJobs.

A position description is attached.