This is an exciting opportunity for a motivated and experienced senior clinician to join Relationships Australia Victoria (RAV).

About us

Relationships Australia Victoria (RAV) is a community-based, not-for-profit organisation with no religious affiliations. Our vision is for positive, respectful, safe and fulfilling relationships for all Australians. For more than 75 years, we have been delivering high quality family and relationship support services, and we now support more than 20,000 clients every year. We have over 400 dedicated employees working from 21 centres across metropolitan Melbourne and regional Victoria.

About the role

Reporting to the Centre Manager, your responsibilities include direct client counselling to individuals, couples and families, as well as providing individual and group clinical supervision to employees, making professional judgements, offering feedback, support and challenging staff to ensure continuous improvement. In doing so, you will assist in providing effective and efficient high-quality services and programs in alignment with RAV’s contractual obligations and strategic direction.

This role is located at our Ballarat centre. The successful candidate will be offered a permanent, part-time position working 4 days per week, including Thursdays from 1pm to 9pm. The base salary range is $117,240 to $120,546 (pro-rata) per annum. 

About you

• Tertiary qualifications in psychology, social work, or occupational therapy with further graduate qualifications in mental health, family violence, counselling and family therapy. 
• Five (5) years’ experience undertaking clinical supervision in a similar working environment, supervising/leading a clinical team.
• Highly developed and demonstrated communication skills, with a particular emphasis on providing constructive and proactive feedback in relation to contemporary practice and improvement.
• Sound judgement and problem-solving skills, an ability to contribute to the planning and development of the service and a capacity to manage change.
• Experience in working with family violence, mental health, child protection and relevant service sectors.
• Eligibility for membership of a professional body (APS), AASW or appropriate organisation) is highly desirable.

We provide

• Competitive salary packaging as RAV is a public benevolent institution
• Hybrid and flexible working arrangements.
• Generous leave entitlements, and gratis days over the Christmas/New Year period.
• Professional development and training.
• Best practice clinical supervision.
• Career progression opportunities.

Candidates can view the position description at www.rav.org.au/careers, contact Jayne Ferguson on (03) 5337 9222 for specific queries.

Applications close Wednesday 26th February 2025. 

RAV is committed to developing an inclusive and diverse workforce. We encourage applications from First Nations peoples, people from under-represented culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, people from lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, queer, asexual (LGBTIQA+) communities, and people living with disability. We are committed to the safety of our clients and staff and promote a child-safe work environment. We recognise the lifelong impacts of childhood trauma and recognise those who had children taken away from them.

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