Child and Family Counsellor - Specialised Family Violence Services

• Full-time position (76 fortnightly hours)  
• 93,669.00 + Super + Salary Packaging* (to increase your take home pay) 
• Located in Elizabeth. 

The Child and Family (CaF) Counsellor provides therapeutic counselling and family support that strengthens the safety, wellbeing and healthy development of children and young people, particularly for families affected by family and domestic violence. Working with children and young people aged 0–17, parents, carers and whole families, the role supports families experiencing a broad range of complex relationship, parenting and social challenges.

About RASA 

Relationships Australia South Australia (RASA) is a not-for-profit, secular, community organisation, helping people to overcome difficulties and bring about positive change in their lives. We offer services for families, couples and individuals of all ages, backgrounds and abilities. To find out more about RASA go to rasa.org.au. 

Who we are looking for 

We are looking for a skilled and reflective practitioner with experience in holistic screening, risk assessment, case formulation and counselling interventions for children, young people and families experiencing complex needs and risks. You will have demonstrated experience working with families using child-focused and child-inclusive approaches, building effective collaborative relationships with internal and external stakeholders, and providing responses that prioritise safety and wellbeing. You will bring a strong understanding of the impacts of adverse childhood experiences, trauma and family and domestic violence, along with a commitment to reflective practice and ongoing development of your clinical work.

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 children, young people, parents and carers and 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. 

It would be a bonus if you have: 

• Post graduate (AQF level 9) qualification in social work, psychology, counselling or related discipline. 
• Demonstrated experience facilitating therapeutic groups with children, young people and parents and carers in Family and Domestic Violence behaviour change, parenting skills and developing social and emotional skills. 
• Demonstrated experience in working with stakeholders around a child such as schools 

What you will be doing   

• Deliver high-quality, child-centred, trauma-informed and developmentally responsive counselling, therapeutic groupwork and psycho-educational interventions for children and young people (0–17 years), parents, carers and families experiencing relationship, parenting and complex psychosocial challenges in various settings including on-site, telehealth and outreach. 
• Assist adults, children and young people affected by family violence and engage individuals who use violent behaviours in their relationships to change.  
• Coordinate and facilitate the provision of high quality, responsive face to face and online men’s behaviour change groupwork interventions, creating a psychoeducational and therapeutic learning environment for clients to reduce their FDV behaviour and risk to others.   
• Strengthen the safety, wellbeing and developmental outcomes of children by promoting secure family relationships, enhancing parenting capacity, and supporting families to build resilience, sustain positive change and thrive. 
• Undertake universal holistic screening, comprehensive assessment and ongoing analysis of safety, wellbeing and risk, including the use of the Detection of Overall Risk Screen (DOORS) with adults and children, to inform assessment, intervention and safety planning. 
• Develop, implement, monitor and review evidence-informed case formulations, intervention plans and therapeutic goals, ensuring accurate documentation, timely review, appropriate closure and effective referral where required. 
• Provide specialist therapeutic responses to families experiencing family and domestic violence, childhood trauma, abuse, mental health concerns, substance misuse, problem gambling and other issues affecting child safety, development and family functioning.