About the Opportunity

This is a full-time contract opportunity working 5 days per week until June 2025, and is based in Pitt Street, Sydney CBD

Uniting Counselling and Mediation has a long history of high-quality service delivery, being well regarded and connected with family law stakeholders.  You will provide individual, youth and family counselling for families. This will include innovative telehealth and digital options, child inclusive practice, and psycho-educational and therapeutic groups for individuals, young people and their parents.

 Key Responsibilities:

• Provide high quality individual, youth and family therapy to repair and strengthen family relationships and individual self-determination.
• Provide family therapy, in conjunction with other Uniting Counselling and Mediation staff (e.g. Family Dispute Resolution Practitioners), using a multi-disciplinary approach.
• Provide child consultation, as part of child inclusive practice, to families after separation and divorce, including involuntary and court-ordered clients.
• Assist in the development, facilitation and promotion of clinical group work programs within the centre, and with external stakeholders, such as community services and schools.
• Under the direction of the Centre Manager/Coordinator,  liaise and network with relevant agencies to facilitate effective and high-quality services to our clients. This will include supporting the development and implementation of specific case management models.

About You

• Tertiary qualifications in psychology, social work or other equivalent and relevant field.
• Experience delivering individual, youth and family therapy and/or experience in facilitating youth group programs.
• Demonstrated ability to manage high conflict individuals, youth and families with complex issues. 
• Competence in working with issues of family violence.
• Understanding of child protection issues.
• Excellent communication, organisation and report writing skills.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently as well as be able to contribute to the smooth functioning of a team.
• Capacity to mee program-specific client targets.

Even better:

• Training in couples’ therapy.
• Accredited post graduate training in individual, youth or family therapy.
• Eligibility for membership to relevant professional bodies (eg. AASW, APS, PACFA).
• Experience working with court ordered and involuntary clients.
• Prior experience in youth group facilitation.
• Experience working within a family law or child protection context.
• Familiarity with the Family Law Act and other relevant legislation (e.g., Children and Young Persons (Care and Protection) Act).

Why Work at Uniting

• Do you thrive on a challenge and enjoy doing something different every day?  You can exercise choice through our culture of continuous conversations and have a voice in our diverse and inclusive workplace.
• To have a career that matters in an organisation that focuses on making an impact.
• To receive comprehensive training and development in areas of child, youth and family counselling and to learn within a supportive work environment.
• To work within a strong clinical and supervision framework.
• Do you want to increase your disposable income by reducing the tax you pay?  As a Uniting employee you can package up to $15,900 from your salary for everyday purchases, and up to $2,650 for entertainment purposes. 
• To receive receive up to 5 ex-gratia days (on top of annual leave) at the end of the year.

If the idea of working for a progressive not-for-profit organisation excites you, then click APPLY NOW to get your application started!
Contact Alex Sullivan from Uniting's Talent Acquisition Team should you have an questions; 0466801937 / [email protected], using the subject line: Child and Family Therapist (Counsellor) enquiry via EthicalJobs. 

Employment with Uniting is subject to satisfactory background checks which may include a National Police, reference and Working with Children checks.