Specialist Mental Health Worker
- Provide specialist mental health assessment and therapeutic intervention.
- Maintain a small caseload of clients with mental health needs.
- Develop and deliver mental health-focused therapeutic groups.
Gold Coast Centre Against Sexual Violence (GCCASV)
4 days per week (Mon-Thurs), including one late shift per week (Tues 11.30am- 7.30pm)
Fixed-term contract until 31 December 2028
SCHADS Award – Social and Community Services Employee Level 6
Above-Award remuneration: $61.37per hour + superannuation + salary sacrifice available
About the role
GCCASV is seeking an experienced mental health practitioner to join our specialist Domestic Violence counselling and advocacy team.
The new role will strengthen GCCASV's response to the intersection of Domestic Violence, trauma and mental health.
The position combines a small, targeted client caseload with specialist mental health assessment and counselling, responsive crisis and short-term support as needed, intake and service pathway support, advocacy and system navigation, mental health-focused group interventions, partnership development and organisational capacity building.
Working closely with the Counselling Manager and broader team, this role provides an opportunity to contribute both directly to client wellbeing and to strengthening GCCASV's broader capacity to respond to mental health needs.
Key responsibilities
- Provide specialist mental health assessment, formulation, counselling and therapeutic intervention
- Maintain a small, targeted caseload of clients with additional mental health needs and/or other clinical considerations
- Provide responsive crisis and short-term mental health support as needed, including for clients contacting or presenting to the service
- Support intake, assessment, care planning and appropriate service pathways
- Support clients to navigate and access mental health and related services, including through referral, linkage and individual advocacy
- Develop relationships, partnerships and referral pathways with mental health and community services
- Support coordinated and wraparound responses where clients are engaging with multiple services
- Develop and deliver mental health-focused therapeutic and psychoeducational groups and workshops
- Contribute to mental health resources, organisational learning, practice development and broader capacity building
- Participate in relevant sector networks, communities of practice and service development activities
About you
You will be either a:
- Registered Psychologist with current AHPRA registration;
- Accredited Mental Health Social Worker with the Australian Association of Social Workers (AASW); or
- Credentialed Mental Health Nurse with the Australian College of Mental Health Nurses
You will bring experience in mental health assessment, formulation and therapeutic intervention, including working with people experiencing complex mental health and psychosocial concerns. You will have a strong understanding of domestic violence, coercive control and trauma, and their impacts on mental health, wellbeing, risk and safety.
You will demonstrate sound professional judgment, confidence in responding to distress and complex presentations, and a collaborative, trauma-informed, violence-informed and victim-survivor-centred approach.
Experience working within specialist domestic violence or violence against women services will be highly regarded.
About GCCASV
The Gold Coast Centre Against Sexual Violence is a specialist community-based organisation providing counselling, support, advocacy, education and prevention responses to sexual violence and domestic violence.
We are committed to feminist, trauma-informed, violence-informed and evidence-informed practice and to the safety, dignity, autonomy and rights of victim-survivors.
What we offer
- Role classified under SCHADS Award Level 6, above-Award remuneration
- Superannuation in addition to salary
- Salary sacrifice available
- Professional/clinical supervision
- A specialist, experienced and collaborative team environment
- Opportunities to contribute to groups, resources, service development and organisational capacity building
How to apply
Please submit your resume and a brief cover letter outlining your relevant experience and suitability for the role to ******************************* or call (07) *********
Please note: It is a genuine occupational requirement of this position that it be filled by a woman as permitted by, and arguable under the Anti-Discrimination Act 1991. First Nations women are encouraged to apply
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