Youth Counsellor

at  Hope Community Service

• Full time, 76 hours per fortnight located in Esperance.
• Competitive Salary $82,043.52 + $2,000.00 regional allowance
• Salary sacrifice benefits
  HOPE has been a community service in Western Australia for over a century, providing much needed support to people affected by alcohol and other drugs, mental ill-health, youth justice issues and socioeconomic disadvantage.
  We have an exciting opportunity for a Youth Counsellor to join the headspace team! The position is full time, working Monday to Friday.

HOPE ACKNOWLEDGES AND WELCOMES DIVERSITY IN ALL ITS FORMS AMONGST STAFF AND CLIENTS, INCLUDING CULTURE, LANGUAGE, RACE, ETHNICITY, AGE, DISABILITY, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, GENDER IDENTITY, INTERSEX VARIATIONS, RELIGION, AND SOCIO-ECONOMIC AND RELATIONSHIP STATUS.

To apply online, please click on the appropriate link below. Alternatively, for a confidential discussion, please contact Anna Parkanyi on 90715169, quoting Ref No. 1171360.

• Provide short-term evidence based individual and group interventions and care co-ordination to young people with mild to moderate mental health issues. Interventions will include identified family, friends and workers as directed by the young person and best-practice principles.
• Provide psycho-social initial assessments using the agreed headspace tools, or similar, to determine young people suitability for ongoing headspace services.
• Develop, review, and close care plans in partnership with young people, their family and friends.
• Assess, monitor, and manage clinical risk in consultation with the Clinical Lead and Senior Youth Mental Health Clinician.
• Work in the intake role, responding to service enquiries, screening new referrals, and booking in initial appointments.