YFS is seeking an experienced clinical therapist (2+ years) to join Queensland's first Functional Family Therapy - Child Welfare (FFT-CW) program. This evidence-informed model supports vulnerable families in Browns Plains and Beaudesert, promoting lasting behavioural change.
Be part of an experienced team of passionate therapists who are implementing Queensland’s first Functional Family Therapy – Child Welfare (FFT-CW) program. FFT-CW is an evidence-informed therapy program that achieves lasting behaviour change for vulnerable families in the Browns Plains and Beaudesert region.
You’ll be working with families and children in their homes to create meaningful change by helping them to understand their strengths and teaching them new ways to solve problems.
As well as having clinical experience, the person for this role will need to be flexible, engaging and have a high level of emotional intelligence.
If you’re looking for a role where you can develop your clinical skills with lots of support, clinical reflection, and training, and meet the role requirements, we’d love to hear from you.
About the job
Role location: Jimboomba. Our Jimboomba office is only 30 minutes from Logan and Springfield, and a one-hour drive from the Gold Coast.
Role type: Permanent, full-time
Pay range: $101,106 - $115,348 a year based on experience, with salary packaging available, exempt from Fringe Benefits Tax
You will
About you
Aside from meeting the key capabilities outlined in the related position description available from the link below, ideally you will bring the following: you are flexible, have emotion intelligence with a strong client focus.
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Interested?
Apply with your resume and a one-page covering letter outlining what you will bring to the job.
People from First Nations backgrounds and people from culturally diverse backgrounds are encouraged to apply.
Closing date: This position will remain advertised until filled.
Interviews to be scheduled at times agreed with applicants.
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.
