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Who we are:
  
Caraniche has been delivering innovative psychological and behavioural health services for 30 years, partnering with government, community, and private organisations across Australia to deliver positive client outcomes. Through our partnership with the WISE Employment Group, Caraniche is a not-for-profit organisation committed to supporting people to achieve and maintain positive mental health and wellbeing through collaborative and supportive service delivery. We have a diverse and inclusive culture which transcends to our clients, community and staff by honouring our commitment and values.
  
Your new Role:
  
The Behavioural and Workplace Health (BWH) team encompasses Caraniche at Work and Helm and is recruiting Clinicians to provide a range of workplace wellbeing and behavioural health services to our broad customer base. These services individual and group-based counselling, assessment, critical incident response, workplace consultancy, group-based interventions and training delivery. Our client population presents with diverse needs, including mental health issues, family and relationship concerns, work-related challenges, exposure to trauma, etc.
Through our Caraniche at Work service, we provide preventative workplace support via a teams-based approach that identifies and assists our customer organisations to mitigate psychosocial risks. Our customers and clients also request counselling, supervision, manager support and training. We have a range of training customers that seek the provision of training to their teams, with a focus on a variety of topics, including; mental health awareness, general wellbeing, trauma-informed care, motivational interviewing, managing challenging behaviours, etc.
Through our Helm service, we provide direct to consumer interventions aimed at addressing problem behaviours, as well as providing funded access to counselling focused on supporting disability clients to seek and maintain meaningful employment. Clients in Helm often present with complex issues, including; mental health conditions, substance use, trauma, homelessness, etc.    
We are looking for experienced professionals to join our team to deliver exciting and innovative services. We foster a supportive team culture and you will work collaboratively under the guidance of your Team Leader. Make a real difference by working in a highly motivated team and supportive culture.
  
Our head office is based in Abbotsford, with some travel expected to co-location or customer sites as negotiated and may include both metro and regional areas.
  
The ideal candidate:
  

• Extensive, demonstrated counselling experience
• Tertiary qualification in psychology, social work or counselling
• Registration with a professional body e.g., Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA); Australian Association of Social Work (AASW); Australian Counselling Association (ACA) or Psychotherapy & Counselling Federation of Australia (PACFA)
• Current and valid Police Check and valid Working with Children’s Check
• Relevant work experience providing counselling, workplace support, critical incident response, group-based interventions, and training facilitation
• Able to work flexibly including office-based, remotely (Telehealth) and onsite at customer or co-location sites, dependant on client and service needs
• Experience working with families and providing supervision is highly desirable 

  
  
Our promise to you:
  
Caraniche values our employees and is committed to their professional development and career progression through regular individual and peer supervision and ongoing training on topics relevant to their area of work.  Our unique Professional Practice & Supervision (PPS) team provides individual and group clinical supervision (separate to line management) across all our clinical teams. PPS also offers a variety of internal trainings to ensure you continue to develop and progress your clinical skills and identity as a clinician. We are committed to supporting you to provide the highest quality services to our clients whilst ensuring you are supported to reflect and develop as a clinician and progress your career objectives. 
 
Caraniche Employee Benefits:  

• Salary Packaging options to increase your take home pay
• Work equipment provided – laptop, and phone if required
• Flexible work arrangements by negotiation to suit your work/life balance
• Professional Practice Clinical supervision (1:1 and group) provided regularly
• Internal training, Professional development days
• 4 x Wellbeing days per year (additional to other leave entitlements)
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Reimbursement of professional membership fees

We are ready to hear from you:
  
Caraniche has a culture of belonging and we value differences. We are an organisation that welcomes and appreciates everyone for who they are including people with disability, mature age and young job seekers, members of the LGBTQIA+ community and people from culturally diverse backgrounds. Caraniche welcomes and encourages applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
Let us know if we can provide any reasonable accommodations to enable you to participate in the job application and interview process because of your personal circumstances. Please reach out to the Careers team at careers@caraniche.com.au 
  
Please note:
  

• All successful offers will be subject to a satisfactory Fit2Work Check including a national criminal history check and work entitlement check.
• To be eligible you must have full Australian work rights.
• Applications will be screened upon receipt.

  

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