• Full time
• South/North/North West

The School Counsellor is an outreach position that partners with several Catholic Schools. Students seeking counselling may be experiencing a broad range of issues such as family relationship difficulties, family separation, anxiety, behavioural difficulties, family violence or other forms of trauma.

Why join our organisation?

We offer a highly supportive team, on-going supervision as well as professional and personal development opportunities. CatholicCare Tasmania offers both a great team and a great place to work.

Your role:

• Provide counselling to students
• Regularly liaise with teachers, vice principals and principals
• Conduct parent interviews to gain information, explain concerns and encourage active involvement
• Provide students with opportunities to actively participate in establishing goals relevant to interventions and make appropriate referrals to external sources if required.

What you bring to the role:

• Demonstrated experience and training in student or children’s counselling, including an understanding of the impact of family violence on women, children, men and family functioning
• Demonstrated experience in exercising considerable initiative, discretion and professional judgement and accept personal responsibility within the full scope of the role
• Tertiary qualifications in Social Work, Psychology or related discipline, post graduate qualifications will be highly regarded
• Current Working with Vulnerable People registration

Please click Apply Now to view the position description and application forms, and to submit your resume and supporting documents by the closing date.

For a confidential discussion about this role, please call Kevin on 0409 382 836.

The Archdiocese of Hobart and CatholicCare Tasmania is committed to safeguarding the interests of children and young persons. We are committed to protecting children and young people from harm and require all applicants to undergo an extensive screening process prior to appointment.

The Archdiocese of Hobart is an equal employment opportunity employer, and promotes and supports a family friendly workplace. The successful applicant must be eligible to work in Australia and will need to evidence their registration to Work with Vulnerable People and Police Check as part of the recruitment process.

The Archdiocese of Hobart respects your privacy. Please access our privacy collection notice from CatholicCare Tasmania’s website (https://tinyurl.com/y4dl9khh).