Counsellors Men's Behaviour Change
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Job Summary
- Multiple Positions Available
- Flexible FTE with Part Time and Full Time Roles
- $89422.00pa Super Salary Packaging*(toincreaseyour take home pay)
- Located in Adelaide and Elizabeth (with possibility of work at other RASA sites including Port Adelaide and Marion)
Flexible FTE arrangements are available for internal applicants seeking to increase their employment by working across an additional program.
Whowe arelookingfor
We have several positions available within RASAs Health Equity Mens Behaviour Change Programs team. We are seeking dedicated Repair4Respect (R4R) Counsellors Caring Dads Counsellors and Therapeutic Contact Workers (Mother and Children). Please specify in your cover letter whether you wish to be considered for all positions or specify which position(s) you are applying for.
The Repair4Respect (R4R) CounsellorandCaring Dads Counsellorroles involve providing holistic mens behaviour change interventions aimed at reducing violence addressing gendered stereotype beliefs and tackling the underlying psychosocial factors that contribute to the use of violence and coercive control in intimate partner is a key focus on improving mens capacity to parent in a safe and child centred manner recognising that harm to a childs mother is a parenting choice that also harms the Caring Dadsprogram works with fathers who have physically abused emotionally abused or neglected their children or exposed their children to domestic violence or who are deemed to be at high-risk for these behaviours.
The Caring Dads Therapeutic Contact Workers (Mother and Children) role involves providing holistic family safety workwith partners and children of men engaged in the Caring Dads program.This role will include providing proactive partnerand children contact intake and safety screening risk and safety planning therapeutic supportandcoordination with other services and the Caring Dads Counsellors working with thefathersusing violence. It also works with a recognition of children asclients in their own right.
To be successful in this role you will have:
- Tertiary qualification (AQF level 7) in social work psychology counselling or related discipline.
- Demonstrated experience working with individuals couples or families in a therapeutic context.
- Demonstrated experience in providing counselling to those effected by Family and Domestic Violence including children and those using violence in relationships.
- Understanding of the gendered lens of violence and the demonstrated ability to practice grounded in a gendered analysis of family domestic and sexual violence
It would be a bonus if you have:
- Postgraduate (AQF level 8) qualification in social work psychology counselling or related discipline.
- Demonstrated experience facilitating therapeutic Family and Domestic Violence behaviour change groups.
What you will be doing
- Provide high-quality responsive face-to-face and online individual counselling and group work interventions prioritising accountability(Repair4Respect (R4R) Counsellors and Caring Dads Counsellors).
- Create a psychoeducational and therapeutic learning environment to help clients reduce their FDSV behaviour and risk to others (Repair4Respect (R4R) Counsellors and Caring Dads Counsellors).
- Provide therapeutic informed case management and counselling to improve women and childrens sense of agency choice and control (Caring Dads Therapeutic Mother and Children Contact Workers).
- Restorative Approach - High Support/ High Challenge to scaffold change
- Undertake comprehensive holistic screening and risk assessment using the Detection of Overall Risk Screen (DOORS) tool.
- Ensure effective interventions through sound case formulation intervention review closure processes and appropriate reporting and referrals.
- Conduct ongoing risk assessments and develop safety plans to ensure client safety.
- Work collaboratively with other services to enable coordinated support and make tailored and sequenced referrals for clients.
- Maintain and share comprehensive knowledge of local service and referral options.
- Ensure sound clinical interventions based on current therapeutic practices and engage in supervision to articulate the relationship between theory and practice.
For more informationyou can read the fullPosition Descriptions.
Therapeutic Contact Worker (Mothers and Children) - Caring Dads
Enquiries: Any enquiries can be addressed toLaura Stewart on.
This job ad will close on Monday 29 June 2029 at 9am.
Please note:
- Working days and times subject to discussion including some evening shifts (11:40am - 7:46pm)
- Contracts in the Caring Dads program are Fixed Term ending 31 December 2027
- Contracts in Repair4Respect are Fixed Term ending 31 May 2028
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