Rehabilitation Counsellor / Social Worker IPAR

JOB DESCRIPTION

Company Description

Join an industry leader in occupational Rehabilitation. Our Canberra team is one of the largest in the ACT with over 80 years of combined industry experience. Our client-centred allied health therapists support thousands of people every year to maximise their potential and reach their goals. Enjoy diversity in your role – No one day is ever the same!

With a strong ‘promote from within’ culture, our current team leaders all commenced their career as consultants. With constant growth within our dynamic team, there will be opportunities aplenty to advance your career with IPAR!

What are the Benefits?

  • Competitive remuneration with innovative incentive and bonus schemes 
  • Flexible hybrid work from home role with flexible working hours 
  • Salary Packaging benefits to access goods and services pre-tax and reduce your taxable income! 
  • Fitness Passport to secure a discounted fitness membership and access to facilities Australia wide
  • Access to IPAR’s amazing health and wellness program with fun team monthly activities to support your overall well-being and opportunity connect with your peers. Some of these activities include Murder Mystery, Comedy Show, Office Family Feud, Drag Trivia for Pride Month, Bake Off and Blind Tasting Challenge, Office Sweeps any many more!
  • Being part of IPAR’s Star Award reward and recognition program for top achievers
  • Tailored career development pathways – work for an organisation that really embraces a culture of “promoting from within”
  • Employee Referral Program – Monetary incentive for recommending great talent!
  • Work within a highly skilled multidisciplinary team who are collaborative, supportive & fun!
  • A comprehensive induction program, buddy program and workplace mentoring to ensure a great start and ongoing support to excel

Job Description

What your day will look like:

  • Managing a specialised caseload of clients, supporting them to return to work following a workplace injury or illness.
  • Working with people with complex psychological diagnoses and supporting them as they return to their usual activities and work.
  • Undertaking a variety of assessments and services, to support clients back to work.
  • Working with a variety of stakeholders – injured clients, employers, insurers, treating health practitioners – to facilitate a safe and sustainable return to work for your clients.
  • Providing psychoeducation and training to clients and employers using our award-winning biopsychosocial health coaching tool, Positivum and healthy mind training packages.

Qualifications

Our next team member will possess:

  • Allied health qualifications in Rehabilitation Counselling or Social Work
  • Full registration with ASORC, RCAA or AASW
  • A passion for improving lives through work and health.
  • Enthusiasm for professional development.
  • Strong desire as part of a dynamic, social and hard-working team!
  • Strong communication skills, with the ability to engage with a wide variety of stakeholders.

Additional Information

Our core values are always at the heart of the work that we do every day:

  • We act with integrity. We are honest, ethical, and transparent. We inspire trust through open communication;
  • People work together. We enable each other to thrive within a culture of collaboration, fun and high performance;
  • We take pride in delivering an exceptional and seamless customer experience each and every time;
  • Quality & Innovation is at the forefront of our thinking. We have the courage to actively seek new opportunities and continually improve;
  • We embrace sustainability across all aspects of our business including financial performance, service; design and delivering meaningful outcomes for our team, our customers and the communities that we work in.

You are welcome here.

Our fast-growing team of more than 3,000 people around Australia represent a huge array of life experiences, skills and ways of thinking. We value all these differences. 

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer, proudly welcoming people with disability including mental health conditions, people from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds, people from the LGBTQI community, veterans, carers and Indigenous Australians to our team.
 

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