Location: Sunshine
Brand: Disability & Ageing

Date Posted: 28 Aug 2025

• Location: Victoria - Sunshine & St Albans
• Employment Status: Full Time Permanent Position
• Salary: TRP $88,010 - $91,479
• Not-for-Profit Benefits: Salary packaging options up to $15,900 per annum each FBT year, plus additional meals and entertainment benefits up to $2,649 p.a

JOIN OUR TEAM!

Are you an experienced Mental Health Counsellor or Social Worker (Mental Health) with a focus on ensuring best practice? genU are looking for a talented Health and Wellbeing Consultant to join the team and support our Matchworks division.
In this role, you will provide health & wellbeing support to job seekers from a broad range of backgrounds and abilities. You will utilise your specialist skills to provide a person centred, holistic approach to support clients toward improved management of their mental health in order to facilitate successful engagement with employment. You will also use your counselling intervention skills when support clients.

REQUIREMENTS:

• Current NDIS Worker Screening Check (or willingness to obtain).
• Current Working with Children Check (or willingness to obtain).
• Completion of the NDIS Worker Orientation Module.

As Health & Wellbeing Consultant, your responsibilities include:

• Providing counselling and mental health support to individuals on a one-to-one basis and in groups.
• Conducting biopsychosocial assessments and using short term evidence-based, best practice interventions to assist clients to better manage their health and wellbeing.
• Creating individualised support plans for clients that focus on return to work and assist clients into lasting employment.
• Referring clients to relevant external health or specialist services as required.
• Delivering relevant health and wellbeing training to operational staff.
• Ensuring service delivery meets the quality standards outlined in our clinical governance framework.
• Efficient in maintaining accurate record keeping that tracks client progress within ethical and legal standards.

About you:

We are looking for caring and empathetic individuals who:

• Tertiary qualifications in Psychology, Counselling or other recognised qualification under the Health Professional Award
• Registration with a professional association, with one of the following regulatory bodies: AHPRA, ACA, ASORC, or AASW.
• Accredited mental health Social Workers needed to be registered by the Australian Association of Social Workers (AASW)