Aboriginal Youth Counsellor Role
The Aboriginal Youth Counsellor will provide culturally safe and supportive services to young Aboriginal people, helping them navigate challenges and build resilience. This permanent full-time role is an opportunity to make a meaningful difference in the lives of Indigenous Australians.
* This position involves delivering assessment services that cater to the unique needs of local communities, supporting families through comprehensive support mechanisms, mentoring opportunities, and engaging with community leaders.
Key Qualifications:
To be successful in this role, you should have qualifications in Social Work, Psychology or Counselling with experience working within Aboriginal contexts. Further training will be provided on specific skills required for this position. Essential qualities include effective communication skills, interpersonal relationship building abilities, conflict resolution expertise confident passionate about working alongside Indigenous Australians stable positive outlook flexible adaptable nature proactive responsive caring attitude non-judgmental respect motivated patient empathetic leader strong work ethic creative inventive disciplined autonomous compassionate team player collaboration ability mentorship one-on-one interaction friendly welcoming open-minded focused commitment annual cultural awareness sessions each year are mandatory existing staff members must undertake these sessions annually ”],