About the opportunity
Uniting Counselling and Mediation has a long history of high quality service delivery, being well regarded and connected with Family Law stakeholders. You will be leading a team of Family Counsellors and Family Dispute Resolution Practitioners in the delivery of a suite of post-separation services, including innovative telehealth and digital options, child inclusive practice, and psycho-educational and therapeutic groups for children, young people and adults.
This position is offered on a full-time basis and is based in the Parramatta CBD.
Key Responsibilities:
- Through leadership and management of Uniting Counselling and Mediation Parramatta, you’ll ensure that the vision, philosophy and day-to-day practice meets the needs of children, young people and families throughout the family life cycle and in particular separation.
- Collaborate with other Uniting Centre Managers across the regions to provide programs that demonstrate child inclusive practice.
- Lead an integrated delivery service model for services and programs delivered from the Centre.
- Collaborate with Uniting FDR, Counselling and Child Inclusion Practice Specialists to ensure best practice service delivery, as well as adherence to legislative requirements by programs delivered from the Centre.
- Ensure all team members have access to operational and clinical supervision in the delivery and provision of appropriate services, including services according to the provisions of the Family Law Act.
- Using the cultural and linguistic community diversity profile relevant to the Centre, maintain and develop strategies so that the programs delivered are responsive to client needs.
About You
- Tertiary qualifications in Law, Psychology, or Social Work or other equivalent and relevant field.
- 5 years’ experience in Social Welfare and Human Services Sector.
- 2 years’ experience and high level skills in management, including budgets, physical resources and administration.
- Demonstrated high level clinical supervision skills, especially in relation to working therapeutically with families post-separation.
- Knowledge and ability to undertake Family Dispute Resolution or Counselling/ Case Management dependent upon area of expertise.
- Demonstrated ability to translate identified needs into responsive outcome focused services.
- Demonstrated ability to initiate, plan and evaluate projects and services.
What’s next?
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Employment with Uniting is subject to satisfactory background checks which may include a National Police, reference and Working with Children checks.