Organisation : Centre 360 Youth and Family Service a project of St Francis Social Services
Location : Sydney (Paddington)
Work type : Full-time
Sector : Families, Mental Health, Youth & Young People
Salary type : Hourly
Salary : SCHADS Level 5
Application closing date : 28 Jun, 2018
About the organisation
Centre 360 Youth and Family Service (the Centre) is a community-based adolescent counselling and support service operated by St Francis Social Services at Paddington.
The service has been operating since 1978 and has provided individual and family counselling, advocacy, practical assistance, group work and mentoring programs to highly disadvantaged young people aged 12-24 years and their families who either reside in or move through the inner city of Sydney.
The team is passionate and committed to delivering high quality therapeutic services. We work flexibly and creatively to enhance young people’s connection to their families and communities, increase their wellbeing, and to help them achieve positive life outcomes such as good physical and mental health, healthy relationship skills, strong support networks, stable housing, employment, education, and training.
The Centre commonly works in the areas of trauma and loss, adolescent mental health, the emotional difficulties associated with family dysfunction and breakdown, substance abuse, homelessness, and juvenile and young adult offending.
The Centre operates a number of integrated projects:
• Adolescent and Family counselling and support: Family counselling, parenting programs and case management with a focus on early intervention. We use a trauma informed and strengths based approach to our work with all our clients. We also draw on several other therapeutic frameworks, depending on the needs of the individual client and skills of the counsellor, including Attachment Theory, Narrative Therapy, CBT, Mindfulness, Psychodynamic theory, and Family Systemic Therapy.
• Group Based Programs: a range of therapeutic and psycho-educational groups for adolescents and Triple P for parents. Existing groups are facilitated within a range of external providers, including educational institutions and residential services.
• Mentoring Programs:
- TeamUp: A social and wellbeing mentoring Program for disadvantaged young people aged 15-21
- Herbert Smith Freehills (HSF) partnership: Young people are partnered with employees from the HSF law firm for group social and recreational mentoring activities. They also receive a scholarship to put towards their education.
We offer a combination of Counselling with Case Work, enabling our team to assist young people with their internal needs (mental health) at the same time as improving their relationships in their external world (with family, school and community.)
We also create a safe, supportive environment or go to places young people feel safe to remove barriers that may prevent young people from attending therapeutic sessions.
About the role
•Centre 360 Youth and Family Service, a project of St Francis Social Services, is looking for a passionate counselling professional to join our team.
• This is a Permanent full time position.
• Interviews will take place in early July.
• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are encouraged to apply.
Essential Criteria
- Tertiary qualifications in social work, psychology, counselling, family therapy, or other related discipline.
- Proven ability to engage with diverse young people and their families.
- Experience in providing counselling and case management to young people and their families.
- An understanding of the issues faced by at risk and marginalised young people and their families/care-givers, and a demonstrated ability to engage and work effectively with this client group.
- A capacity to reflect on your own work and actively participate in supervision.
- Strong organisational and time management skills.
- Full driver’s license.
- Successful applicants must have or undergo a Working With Children Check and Police check.
Desirable Criteria
- Experience working flexibly with clients and families, including outreach.
- Experience working in partnership with other services and organisations.
- Demonstrated skills in facilitating therapeutic group work.
- Ability to write assessments and reports.
- Familiarity with data collection and measurement tools, or experience in program evaluation.
For a full explanation of the position please read the attached role description.
How to apply
Applications not allowed for this job listing.
Please quote in application: Adolescent and Family Counsellor via Pro Bono Australia.
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