Employment Type: Permanent Full Time
Position Classification: Dependant upon qualifications and experience
Remuneration: $67,442.00 – $105,895.00 per annum (+ super + 17.5% leave loading where applicable)
Hours per week: 38
Requisition ID: REQ354926
Applications Close: 24 November 2022
Vaccination Category: A (including influenza and 3 doses of COVID-19 vaccination)
Come on board, join our teams who are connected, compassionate, and striving for excellence.
What we offer
- Salary Packaging – up to $9k for living expenses + $2.6k meal & entertainment + $9k remote area housing + novated leasing
- Corporate Health and Fitness program
- Flexible working arrangements
- Genuine welcoming and supportive staff and communities
- Career development opportunities
Where you’ll be working
Renowned for our world-class wineries and ‘foodie’ culture supported by cafes and restaurants to tickle your tastebuds, Griffith’s fascinating heritage, atmosphere and friendly community will have you in awe the minute you arrive.
With historic buildings, impressive art galleries and museums coupled with boutique shopping, festivals, and a vibrant nightlife, you’ll never be short of things to do in this progressive community.
Griffith Base Hospital is a 120-bed facility with 100 acute care beds including ICU, Operating Theatre, Paediatric Services, Maternity Services and Special Care Nursery (SCN). Each year we support approximately 25,000 emergency presentations, 2,500 operations and more than 600 births. We provide a 24-hour Emergency Department (ED) with 15 ED spaces supported by an Intensive Care Unit and Telehealth facilities in ED, ICU, SCN, Paediatrics to connect the team in Griffith with specialists across NSW Health. Redevelopment is progressing fast and lots of career development opportunities are on offer. It’s the perfect time to join our team.
Want to learn more about the Griffith lifestyle?
About the Role
The position of the Farm Community Counsellor is to engage with and provide support to rural farming communities and individuals within the broader agricultural sector who are experiencing severe stress due to the current drought. The expected outcomes of this service are to provide individualised support, build individual and community resilience and sustainability during these difficult times.
The Farm Community Counsellors will ensure they are connected to interagency and other networks to assist with identification and access to the target groups.
The Farm Community Counsellor will:
- Identify individuals and families experiencing severe stress by
developing effective linkages into the agriculture sector and drought affected communities. - Engage with affected individuals/families in locations that are accessible, suitable and/or comfortable for them,
- Provide a counselling service that uses a supportive, strengths-based, resilience-building, and problem-solving approach, and;
- Ensure that individuals and families with mental illness are linked to the relevant MLHD community and inpatient services and lower intensity CMO s where appropriate.
More specific tasks include:
- Providing community-based counselling and mental health support where indicated, to individuals and families in drought-affected areas (who may not otherwise access community mental health support). This will include individuals and families experiencing severe stress rather than mental illness;
- Providing a variety of counselling interventions with individuals including relapse prevention, cognitive behavioural interventions, mindfulness; ‘Single Session’ work and where appropriate facilitate referral to Financial Counselling;
- Responding to the needs of email referrals, phone calls and drop-in clients; carrying out accurate & consistent needs assessments with clients, to determine appropriate support and responses.
- Providing information and appropriate advice, including advocacy, information, referral to other services, community resources, and support networks as required, & to maintain resources accordingly;
- Maintaining and recording client information records, including database and written documentation while maintaining service confidentiality and adhering to MLHD documentation standards and relevant counselling policies and procedures
The Farm Community Counsellor should have a working knowledge of the following theories and practices in relation to providing therapeutic support:
- Narrative theory
- Attachment and separation
- Loss and grief
- Family dysfunction
- Crisis intervention
- Strength Based Practice
- Single Session Work and
- Mindfulness
How to apply
Your application will require you to include a:
- Resume; and
- Cover Letter outlining your skills and experience and why you are a good fit for this position
To learn more about the role, accountabilities, and the required pre-employment checks, please see the Position Description. For a confidential discussion, contact Matthew Quinn, Manager Projects and Partnerships on 0439 487 696 or [email protected]
If interested, we encourage you to click apply promptly. Applications will be assessed as they are received, with suitable candidates contacted and progressed without delay.
New applicants must have completed the COVID-19 vaccination course prior to commencement with NSW Health or provide an approved medical contraindication certificate. Should a medical contraindication certificate be provided, ongoing employment post certificate expiry is conditional to meeting COVID-19 vaccination requirements.
MLHD is an Equal Opportunity Employer and encourage all suitably qualified applicants to apply, including Aboriginal People and people from racial, ethnic, or ethno-religious minority groups and people with disability.