Job Description

We are seeking a Children’s Counsellor & Group Facilitator within our Counselling team! This role is a SCHADS Level 6 ($113,403 – $118,441) pro rata, pay point dependent of experience, plus 12% superannuation and up to $15,990 salary packaging. This is a permanent part-time role (0.8 FTE).

About the role

The Children’s Counsellor & Group Facilitator will be responsible for a range of child-focused and trauma-informed counselling and group work interventions. Supporting children and their families who have experienced family violence, this role must ensure that all therapeutic activities are adaptive and responsive to identified needs.

Key responsibilities:

• Undertake assessments of children and their families to determine individual needs
• Provide therapeutic counselling interventions to children, including using creative modalities such as Art Therapy and Play Therapy (occasionally providing outreach at schools when required)
• Undertake ongoing family violence risk assessments of children and their families
• Provide tailored group and/or single session child-centered and trauma-informed family counselling interventions and counselling
• In consultation with the counselling team leader, plan, co-facilitate and evaluate therapeutic groups for children
• Actively promote the therapeutic groups to services that work with families impacted by family violence to enhance referrals
• In conjunction with the team leader, actively monitor the performance standards against DFFH requirements to ensure ongoing accreditation for the program
• Maintain accurate case files and associated documents/notes to meet all auditing requirements
• Ensure program data (IRIS) is collected to inform program planning and to meet DFFH recording requirements
• Provide secondary consultation and advocacy to external health, community and education services providers regarding the developmental needs of children

About you

Essential

• Tertiary qualifications in a therapeutic discipline (such as Psychology, Social Work or related field)
• Eligibility for AASW membership of other professional body
• Highly developed understanding of child development therapy, trauma-informed therapeutic practice and attachment theory
• Relevant working experience within a comparable role
• Substantial direct service delivery experience (assessment & therapeutic interventions)
• Demonstrated understanding of legislation, theory and practice relating to provisions of family violence services to women and children
• Demonstrated commitment to the provision of high-quality services, feminist policy and practice
• Experience in development and maintaining effective working relationships
• Excellent verbal and written communication and interpersonal skills
• The ability to work with minimal direction while accepting a high level of responsibility and accountability
• Sound computer skills including data base applications
• Working with Children check
• Police check (and international police check if lived overseas for a year or more in the last 10 years)
• Current VIC driver’s license

Desired

• Clinical training in creative modalities for children including Art Therapy, Music Therapy, Drama Therapy. Dance/movement Therapy and/or Play Therapy
• Experience with guiding peers and externals parties regarding information sharing and promotion

We are actively hiring for this role, so apply ASAP; applications will close on 1st June 2026.

Should you have any questions or queries please email recruitment@genwest.org.au