About this Opportunity

• Continuing, Full Time
• Student Success Division
• CQUniversity Rockhampton or Mackay
• Higher Education Worker Level 8
• Total Remuneration $123,096 to $138,503 pa (including salary of $104,018 to $117,037 plus 17% superannuation and leave loading)

Join an organisation with an unbreakable belief that quality education, training and research should be available to everyone – regardless of background, location or life circumstances.

Working at CQUniversity

CQUniversity’s Counselling and Wellbeing Portfolio aims to provide professional and inclusive counselling, wellbeing, and safer community services to the whole University. Our objective is to see students succeed in their studies and to promote personal resilience, and social and emotional well-being through the development of effective coping strategies and study skills. We promote student engagement and retention by supporting students with issues that impact their studies and personal lives.

In this important and meaningful position, you will be working directly with students and staff to promote and ensure the safety and welfare of students are of the highest priority. The Safer Community Manager plays a key role in responding, assessing, and managing reports of student behavioural risks and concerns, with a particular focus on sexual harm and other complex mental illnesses or problem behaviours that cause psychological harm. You will be a central point of contact for staff and students at the University, adopting a trauma-informed approach and providing consistency in assessments when addressing persons of concern. You will provide person-centred impact assessments and support for the victim-survivors of concerning, complex student behaviours.

As an empowered individual, you will contribute to the review of procedures and practices in line with the University’s safety and wellbeing policies to ensure effective information gathering for the purpose of assessment and development of individualised management and referral planning; and to ensure that concerns and disputes are resolved at the earliest and, where appropriate, most informal level. Reporting to the Chief Wellbeing Officer, you will collaborate with the Director, Governance and relevant management and risk management/advisory groups to support a whole university approach to safety planning and a safer University environment.

If you want to join a highly motivated team that is truly invested in the student experience, CQUniversity wants to hear from you.

Be Rewarded

• 6 weeks annual leave
• Generous carers, maternity and paternity leave
• 17% superannuation (with the choice of joining an award-winning superfund)
• Flexible and inclusive work/life balance
• Fantastic staff professional/career development opportunities
• A meaningful position that guides a safe and inclusive culture at CQUniversity
• Access to an Employee Assistance Program

Position Requirements

• Four-year undergraduate degree (psychology, social work or counselling or similar), registration with an appropriate professional association and extensive relevant experience providing therapeutic services, particularly in risk-based case assessment and management.
• Demonstrated competence in risk assessment and intervention.
• Demonstrated competence in trauma-informed practice.
• Registration, or eligibility for registration to your specific professional body
• Desirable: A degree or progress towards postgraduate qualifications (i.e. psychology, social work or counselling) and extensive relevant experience particularly in risk-based case assessment, management, and planning; or a combination of relevant experience and/or education/training in the field of behavioural risk assessment.
• You will be expected to hold vaccinations in relation to the COVID-19 immunisation should your CQUniversity role require you to attend any setting/venue/event where there is a specific entry requirement for you to hold these vaccinations, as per relevant State Government directives.

Position Description

For further information about this position, please refer to the Position Description.

Apply today for a career that changes lives

Applications Close: 11:59pm, Day, Date 2019

Job Requisition ID: 3811

When submitting your application, please include: Your Current CV or Resume, and a 1-2 page Cover Letter highlighting your relevant skills, experience and suitability for the position. Please note, applicants for the position must have full time work rights.

CQUniversity is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes diversity in the workplace. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, and CQUniversity’s domestic and international student graduates with post-study work rights are encouraged to apply.