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- Full-Time, Fixed Term Position (until 30 June 2026)
- $89,422.00 pa + Super + Salary Packaging* (to increase your take home pay)
- Located across Adelaide, Elizabeth and Salisbury
The rebuild team plays a crucial role in offering vital trauma-based counseling and peer support to both child and adult victim-survivors of crime, as they navigate through the criminal justice process.
About RASA
Relationships Australia South Australia (RASA) is a not-for-profit, secular, community organisation, helping people to overcome difficulties and bring about positive change in their lives. We offer services for families, couples and individuals of all ages, backgrounds and abilities. To find out more about RASA go to rasa.org.au.
Who we are looking for
We are looking for a compassionate and skilled counsellor who brings a trauma-informed approach and a deep understanding of the emotional and psychological impacts of crime. The ideal candidate will be adaptable, empathetic, and committed to supporting clients through the criminal justice process with care, professionalism, and a focus on recovery and resilience.
To be successful in this role you will have:
- Tertiary qualification (AQF level 7) in social work, psychology, counselling or related discipline or a diploma (AQF level 5) in counselling.
- Demonstrated experience in providing counselling to those affected by violence, abuse, and trauma.
- Demonstrated understanding of therapeutic needs of people who are victims of crime, both violent and non-violent.
- Demonstrated experience working with individuals, couples, or families in a therapeutic context
It would be a bonus if you have:
- Postgraduate (AQF level 9) qualification in social work, psychology, counselling, or related discipline.
- Experience in working holistically with children and young people who have experienced trauma and family centred work.
- Experience in working with Aboriginal communities, families, and services.
- Experience working with the criminal justice system
What you will be doing
- Provide high quality short to medium-term trauma-informed counselling, comprehensive support and referrals that respond to the specific needs of victims of crime.
- Collaborate with appropriate social and practical support services, such as SAPOL, VOCSA, DPP, housing, health, mental health, financial and aged care to meet the critical needs of individuals.
- Ensure client safety, effective case planning, review and appropriate referral through universal holistic screening and risk assessment of complex relationship and social issues utilising the Detection of Overall Risk Screen (DOORS) tool, WSAS and Kessler 10 assessment.
- Ensure sound clinical interventions using evidence based therapeutic methodologies, trauma informed approaches and proactively engaging in supervision to clearly articulate the relationship between theory and practice.
- Conduct risk and safety assessment, counselling, review, record keeping and reporting of outcomes.
For more information you can read the full Position Description.
If this role is what you are looking for, we’d love to hear from you.
Enquiries: Any enquiries can be addressed to Karena Jowsey 08 8223 4566
This job ad will close on Thursday 14 August at 5pm.
