Mental Health Clinician
What you will love about the Agewise Program:
- Working with older adults across a broad spectrum of the community and listening to their stories.
- Supporting older adults to be empowered at a very uncertain time in their lives through practical strategies, skills, and evidence-based counselling interventions.
- Assisting older adults to make meaning and sense of their life experiences with a focus on strengths and values.
- Opportunity to deepen and hone your craft as a counsellor and mental health clinician as you apply and adapt your skills and training to support elders in our community.
- Broaden your understanding of working with grief and loss, anxiety, depression, historical trauma and abuse, life transitions and adjustment disorders, health diagnosis and loss of independence, family relationships, and interpersonal challenges.
Why work with us:
- Your participant case load is capped at a maximum of three per day and has you out and about on the road and in the community.
- You will work in a multidisciplinary team of great people who are passionate about clinical excellence, supporting participants, and promoting mental health and wellbeing.
- You will be joining an inclusive team of friendly and social clinicians, who value and prioritize self-care, occasionally enjoying social get-togethers, working lunches on the road, and sharing knowledge.
- You will be working for a values-based organization that recognizes the importance of their people, be it participants, staff, or stakeholders.
- Support to tailor your specific interest areas within your caseload and be mentored to apply your existing counselling skills with the older adult cohort.
- Remuneration as per the Health Professionals and Support Services Award.
- Not-for-profit salary packaging, significantly reducing your taxable income.
- Multiple inclusions such as internal group debriefing and access to additional external supervision, in-house professional development opportunities, and resource sharing.
Qualification (Bachelor’s degree minimum):
- Registered Counsellor (holding registration with a relevant association).
- Psychologist (holding provisional or general registration).
- Mental health nurse (credentialed or working towards credentialing).
- Mental health social worker (credentialed or working towards credentialing).
- Previous experience working in a mental health setting providing direct consumer counselling and therapeutic interventions.
Essential criteria:
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
- Demonstrated ability to work autonomously, plan, and manage own calendar and manage own time according to priority.
- Demonstrated knowledge and application of evidence-based theory, comprehensive assessment and tools, and care planning.
- Demonstrated ability to network and create positive professional relationships.
Desirable:
- Experience working with adults in a mental health setting.
- Facilitating and delivering groups with a therapeutic outcome.
From $42.33 to $48.14 per hour exclusive of Superannuation.
Location: Clinical, Hobart
Closing Date: Friday 5th of August, 2024