Job Title: Mental Health Practitioner
Location: Camperdown College
Key Responsibilities:
* Implement small group and whole-school mental health prevention and promotion activities to improve student mental health and wellbeing.
* Develop and deliver capability building and awareness raising activities for staff and/or students on key mental health and wellbeing issues affecting the school's student population.
* Assess, conceptualise and analyse wellbeing issues, and provide evidence-based direct counselling support to clients with a range of mental health needs.
* Coordinate supports for young people with complex needs including referrals to a range of specialist services as appropriate.
* Provide early intervention services (including short-term counselling) for individual students and groups identified as at-risk and/or experiencing or demonstrating mild to moderate mental health concerns.
* Deliver professional support services in a school, including mental health prevention and promotion activities and early intervention activities (including short-term counselling) for students with a range of mental health needs, applying sound theoretical knowledge and practical expertise.
Requirements:
* Qualification as a psychologist, social worker, mental health nurse, occupational therapist or counsellor of a prescribed class.
* Demonstrated direct counselling experience.
* Current Working With Children Check.
Salary:
Estimated salary: $60,000 - $80,000 per annum.