About the Opportunity:
Due to the continued growth of our service and increasing demand, an exciting opportunity has become available for an additional Counsellor to join our multidisciplinary team at St Vincent’s Private Hospital Brisbane.
This role is integral to supporting patients with life-limiting illness, along with their families and carers, through the provision of high-quality, compassionate counselling services. You will work collaboratively within an interdisciplinary team to deliver holistic care that addresses emotional, psychological, and psychosocial needs across the patient journey.
Things that work for you:
Retail and Travel Discounts; Blue light card a discounted service for frontline workers (available for over 350 brands inc. Big W, The Good Guys, Samsung), JB Hi-Fi corporate benefits, airport lounge membership discounts
Financial Wellbeing Salary packaging options up to $15,990, novated leasing, plus an optional Meals and Entertainment card up to $2,650 per annum , competitive hourly rates and paid approved overtime
Health and Wellbeing Employee Assistance Program for staff and their families, fitness passport, free uniforms & annual flu vaccination, ability to purchase annual leave, discounted hospital admissions at any St Vincent’s Private Hospital, discounted private health insurance through Bupa or Medibank
Join Australia’s largest not-for-profit provider of health and aged care services!
Things that work for us:
Ability to work on a permanent part time basis (22.8 hours per week)
Proven experience in grief and loss, bereavement, and/or palliative care (essential)
Master's in counselling (essential)
Commitment to professional development and quality assurance
Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to build rapport in sensitive situations
Flexible approach and the ability to respond to a changing environment
Uphold and promote the goals and vision of the Hospital
Personally model, articulate and integrate mission and values of SVPHB into the work environment
A desire to acquire and/or continue formal Counselling qualifications
Mission and Values:
As both a provider of care and as an employer, St Vincent’s aspires to create an environment that is truly inclusive for all people, always. St Vincent’s is constantly striving for inclusivity and to create and cherish a diverse place of care and work.
Part of our Commitment to Reconciliation and Closing the Gap in employment related outcomes, we encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples. For further information, visit Mission and Values - Reconciliation
Respectfully, no agencies please.
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Employment is subject to the successful completion of all pre-employment checks. St Vincent's has a duty of care under work health and safety legislation to eliminate and/or control the risk of transmission of vaccine preventable diseases (VPD) in healthcare settings and evidence will be required for proof of immunity. Please email the Talent National team if you would like to know more talentnational@svha.org.au
28 May 2026 11:59pm
At St Vincent's we acknowledge the importance of creating a work environment that is welcoming, safe, equitable and inclusive for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Employees. As part of our Commitment to Reconciliation and Closing the Gap in employment related outcomes, we encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples.
For further information, visit https /www.svha.org.au/about-us/reconciliation or get in contact at indigenouscareers@svha.org.au
View Reconciliation Action Plan
The Royal Children's Hospital (RCH) has been providing outstanding care for Victoria's children and their families for over 147 years.
We are the major specialist paediatric hospital in Victoria and our care extends to children from Tasmania, southern New South Wales and other states around Australia and overseas.
With a passionate, highly skilled and committed staff campus wide of over 5,000, we provide a full range of clinical services, tertiary care and health promotion and prevention programs for children and young people.
We are the designated state-wide major trauma centre for paediatrics in Victoria and a Nationally Funded Centre for cardiac and liver transplantation.
When it comes to training and research we partner with the very best. Our campus partners, the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute (MCRI) and The University of Melbourne Department of Paediatrics, along with the RCH Foundation, are on site with the hospital in Parkville. Together, we are committed to improving the health outcomes for children today and in the future.
In 2016–17, more than 85,654 children attended our Emergency Department, 322,291 specialist clinic appointments were held which was almost 70,000 more than the previous year, more than 17,000 surgeries were performed and more than 48,552 children were admitted to our wards.
