Child and Family Counsellor (CaPS)

About the role

Relationships Australia South Australia (RASA) is recruiting a Child and Family Counsellor for its CaPS service in Port Adelaide. The role supports children, young people and families to overcome complex challenges through child-centred therapeutic counselling that strengthens family relationships, builds resilience and promotes positive outcomes. It is a part-time position (up to 45.6 fortnightly hours) on a fixed term until June 2028.

Key responsibilities

• Deliver high-quality, child-centred, trauma-informed and developmentally responsive counselling, therapeutic groupwork (including Circle of Security and Bringing Up Great Kids) and psycho-educational interventions for children and young people aged 0-17, parents, carers and families facing relationship, parenting and complex psychosocial challenges, across on-site, telehealth and outreach settings.
• Design and deliver information sessions and workshops for parents and carers.
• Promote secure family relationships, enhance parenting capacity and support families to build resilience and sustain positive change.

Required profile

• Tertiary qualification (AQF level 7) in social work, psychology, counselling or a related discipline.
• Demonstrated experience working with children, young people, parents and carers in a therapeutic context.
• Demonstrated experience in case management.
• Demonstrated experience counselling people affected by family and domestic violence, including children and those using violence in relationships.
• Bonus: postgraduate qualification (AQF level 9); experience facilitating therapeutic groups on family and domestic violence behaviour change, parenting skills and social and emotional skills; experience working with stakeholders such as schools.

What we offer

• Salary of $93,669 per year plus superannuation and salary packaging.
• Fixed-term employment until June 2028.