Where excellence meets opportunity - discover your next chapter with cohealth

• Full time, ongoing Arabic/ Vietnamese speaking Counsellor roles available
• Work for a multi-award-winning iconic community health organisation
• Generous salary packaging options to reduce your cohealth taxable income

So why cohealth?

cohealth leads the way in reducing health and social inequity in partnership with people and the communities in which they live. Named Premier's Health Service of the Year (Primary) and the Supporting LGBTIQ+ Health Service at the Victorian Public Healthcare Awards, cohealth's 1000 staff demonstrate courage, leadership, innovation, and agility in their commitment to providing inclusive and culturally safe health services that protect the human rights of all people of all gender identities, sexualities, ages, cultural and linguistic backgrounds, faiths, and abilities.

Our inclusive workplace culture enables staff to bring their whole selves to work, where uniqueness is valued, and people experience a feeling of belonging. Our aim is for everyone to thrive in their role. Please click here to find out more.

About the role

This role includes counselling within an inter-professional approach around issues such as psychosocial issues, trauma, family violence, relationship issues, grief and loss with a particular focus on marginalised and Arabic/ Vietnamese speaking communities. Counselling duties are the primary focus, but the position also includes casework, care-planning and groupwork.

Please refer to the Position Description for more information.

Your duties include:

• Provide clients with support and strategies to deal with the grief and loss common with mental health challenges.
• Provide casework, referral and advocacy to clients particularly where this would enhance the therapeutic work and/or where other services are not available
• Provide services in a manner that are sensitive to each client's background and beliefs (e.g. cultural)
• Provide casework, referral and advocacy to clients particularly where this would enhance the therapeutic work and/or where other services are not available

What cohealth offers:

• Exciting Parental leave benefits
  • cohealth offers primary carers 14 weeks paid parental leave upon completion of only 6 months of continuous service
  • Eligible co-workers will continue to receive superannuation on unpaid parental leave as well
• Salary packaging to suit you - tax free amount of up to $15,900 p.a (mortgage, rent, or credit cards) and a further $2,650 p.a (meal, entertainment expenses and holiday accommodation) alongside generous reward programs from our salary packaging providers. Find out more on salary packaging here: https://www.ato.gov.au/Individuals/Jobs-and-employment-types/Working-as-an-employee/Salary-sacrificing-for-employees/
• Novated Leasing available
• Counselling services for you and your immediate family through our EAP-Access provider, and mindfulness, resilience, and wellbeing programs
• We offer inclusion, equality, and opportunity in a workplace where making a difference counts (based on our guiding principles and values)

Our ideal candidate:

• Tertiary qualifications in Post Graduate Counselling or Social Work with eligibility to membership of AASW, PACFA or ACA or an equivalent qualification as determined by cohealth
• Proof of qualification to be sighted
• Minimum of two years demonstrated experience in provision of a high standard of client centred, evidence-based short to medium term counselling for the target population.
• Proficient in Arabic/ Vietnamese and English
• Victorian Driver's License strongly preferred

All appointments are made subject to a satisfactory Police Check, a Working with Children Check (WWCC), complete a Pre-employment declaration form, evidence of legal rights to work in Australia. Additionally, some roles will also require current AHPRA registration and/or NDIS Worker Screening Clearance.

Roles that are determined to be Risk Category A or B [staff that have direct and/or indirect contact with body substances and are at higher risk of occupational exposure to infections] will be required to provide evidence of immunisation assessment including Influenza prior to commencement [A] or within 12 weeks of commencement [B]. This is in accordance with the Victorian Minister of Health Mandatory Vaccination Orders for COVID-19 and legislated requirement for influenza vaccination.

Application Process

Click on apply now to be directed to our careers page. You will be asked to upload your CV/ resume and Cover Letter as well as address the key selection criteria. We will be conducting interviews for this role as applications are received. This campaign will close on the mentioned date at 10.00 PM. If you have any questions regarding this role, please contact Claire Conlon claire.conlon@cohealth.org.au