Gambling Help Couns Educator

Gambling Help Counsellor & Educator Financial Resilience & Wellbeing Services Cairns

• Employment Term: Maximum Term to 30 September 2026 Full Time (76 hours per fortnight)

• Location: Cairns

• Remuneration: $51 p/hr Super NFP Salary Packaging (save tax and increase your take home pay)

• Applications Close: Applications will be reviewed as they are received and therefore may result in the role closing early if the right applicant is found.

Make a meaningful difference with UnitingCare Queensland

At UnitingCare we are leaders in crisis response the protection of vulnerable people and children financial resilience and family wellbeing. Our FaDS (Family and Disability Services) team work passionately across Queensland to make a meaningful difference in peoples lives.

As a Gambling Help Counsellor & Educator youll be encouraged to grow develop and feel empowered to make the everyday easier for the people we care so passionately about. Lets make a meaningful difference together!

Your part in our UnitingCare team

The Gambling Help Service provides counselling to individuals couples and families adversely affected by addiction specifically gambling. This client-centered work assists clients to address problematic gambling the impacts to themselves and/or family members and the circumstances or issues that may underpin the issue.

The Gambling Help Counsellor & Educator will:

• Provide empathetic and non-judgement gambling counselling to individuals their families and significant others.

• Promote greater public awareness about the social issues associated with problem gambling through the provision of information to specific target groups and the community.

What makes a difference for us

• Hold a minimum of a Diploma in Counselling or equivalent.

• Demonstrated experience working in a counselling environment.

• Demonstrated experience and theoretical knowledge of working therapeutically with addiction specifically gambling

• Experience in developing and delivering education and awareness programs as well as an understanding of theoretical frameworks and models of adult education and community development.

• Demonstrated experience and knowledge in therapeutic and counselling skills that is applicable to addiction and trauma.

• Demonstrated case management skills with a focus on outcomes data and practice improvement.

• Demonstrated knowledge of strength-based interventions and approaches in trauma/addiction counselling or the ability to acquire the skills.

• Experience in group facilitation and community education or the ability to acquire the skills.

• Current Drivers Licence

• Working with Children Check (Blue Card)

What makes a difference for you

• Flexible work arrangements to support work-life balance

• NFP Salary Packaging: Save tax and increase your take home pay by salary packaging your everyday living expenses and bills (up to $15900) and meal entertainment (up to $2650) per annum. To learn more about this benefit watch the video via the following link: SalaryPackagingExplained

• A recognition and rewards platform providing employee discounts at hundreds of retailers including everyday expenses holidays health insurance annual awards celebration wellbeing and employee assistance programs

• 12 weeks paid parental leave and 2 weeks paid partner leave available after 6 months service in addition to the government scheme

• Diversity and inclusive leave offering paid gender affirmation leave and cultural leave options (paid and unpaid) for those who may celebrate Lunar New Year Diwali Ramadan NAIDOC weeks and other significant cultural events

• Career development opportunitiesto challenge yourself grow and make a meaningful difference

• A positive and inclusive team based on respect shared standards strong values and a commitment to serving others

Wed love you to be part of our UnitingCare family

Joining our FaDS team youll also be welcomed as part of the UnitingCare family. The second-largest Queensland employer were a proud not-for-profit with more than 16500 staff and 9000 volunteers across our brands of BlueCare Lifeline ARRCS The Wesley Hospital Buderim Private Hospital St Stephens Hospital and St Andrews War Memorial Hospital and have been leading by example for more than 100 years.

Child safe Child friendly

UnitingCare is committed to being a Child Safe Child Friendly organisation and will:

• provide welcoming safe and nurturing services for children

• implement measures to prevent child abuse and neglect within our services

• appropriately and immediately address child abuse and neglect if it does occur

Diversity & Inclusion

Our approach is simple everybody iswelcome here. At UnitingCare diversity is at the core of our who we are our mission and our are committed to providing equal opportunities to all employees no matter their sex race culture sexual orientation disability or gender our commitment to reconciliation and building long-term employment opportunities for First Nations peoples UnitingCare strongly encourages Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants for this position.

Safe workplace

We work hard to make our services welcoming and safe for every person. We are united in keeping children young people and the elderly safe from harm within our services workplaces and the communities we support. We are committed to speaking up loudly for their safety.