CASA House- Senior Counsellor/Advocate
Ongoing Position
Hours per week 30.4
The Royal Women’s Hospital
The Royal Women’s Hospital is Australia’s first and largest specialist hospital dedicated to improving the health and wellbeing of newborns and women of all ages. To join the Women’s is to be instrumental in forging progress towards health equity for women from ground-breaking research through to the bedside delivery of multi-disciplinary clinical care.
Creating exceptional experiences is at the heart of everything we do for our patients, their families, and our people across our specialised services within maternity, neonatal and women’s health.
CASA House
The Centre Against Sexual Assault (CASA House) is located in the heart of Melbourne in the iconic Queen Victoria Women’s Centre. CASA House works with people of all genders and provides 24 hour services to victim/survivors of sexual assault, including immediate crisis care, counselling, support and advocacy, afterhours crisis response, support groups & support for non-offending family members and friends. CASA House is committed to ensuring the silence which surrounds sexual assault continues to be broken and that victim/survivors are provided with necessary support. CASA House also provides professional consultation, education and training, prevention programs for young people and input into public policy.
Your contribution
Your duties will include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Provide leadership and supervision to the team of counsellor/advocates in relation to knowledge of current research and best practice in the area of counselling and advocacy for victim/survivors of sexual assault
- Provide direct clinical practice including provision of counselling and advocacy services to victim/survivors of childhood and/or adult sexual assault, their non-offending families and significant others
- Coordinate and participate in 24 hour roster of staff for duty/intake and on call crisis response
About you
To be successful within this role you will need to have:
- Appropriate tertiary qualifications in Social Work or a related health qualification
- Eligibility for membership with the Australian Association of Social Workers (AASW) or relevant professional body
- Experience in a team leader or supervisory role in a direct practice context
- High-level counselling, assessment and advocacy skills, and experience in supporting victim/survivors.
- Commitment to the CASA House intersectional feminist rights/advocacy model of practice
- An excellent understanding of theory, policy and practice issues around sexual assault and family violence
Our offering
When you join the Women’s you unite with talented people who share your purpose and unwavering determination to advance health outcomes for all. At CASA House you will be joining a team which values inclusivity, diversity and intersectionality, a team that is passionate about ensuring victim/ survivors are provided with timely support and that the silence which surrounds sexual assault continues to be broken. Under the leadership of the CASA House coordinator and with the support of a fellow Senior Counsellor Advocate you will be providing supervision and support to a team of passionate Counsellor/ Advocates. You will find a workplace that is collaborative, progressive and passionate about learning and working together to ensure you find the exceptional in your everyday.
Our staff benefits program includes salary packaging, on-site car parking and childcare (subject to availability), alongside a range of discounted financial, lifestyle and wellbeing benefits provided by our staff benefit partners. To learn more, please visit: www.thewomens.org.au/careers/why-work-at-the-womens/staff-benefits/
We are proudly Breastfeeding Association accredited. The Women’s is committed to gender equity principles and our people have an awareness of and sensitive approach to violence against women/family violence matters.
The Women’s is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and social inclusion. We welcome applications from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, including those from Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islanders, people with lived experience of disability and people who identify as LGBTIQ.
Ready to make the move?
For more information about the position, please see the Position Description attached and apply online by selecting “apply now” below.
All appointments to the Women’s are subject to a satisfactory clearance of Working with Children Check and Police Check.