Counsellor Advocate
Core
Provide specialised counselling, intake response, and therapeutic services to children, young people, adults, and their families impacted by sexual assault or family violence, including intervention for harmful sexual behaviours.
Role type
Senior clinical counsellor (trauma-informed, systemic approach)
Builds
Trauma recovery programs, crisis care, and intervention services for victims and perpetrators of sexual/family violence
Domain
Social services / Mental health / Trauma recovery / Family violence prevention
Deliverable
physical/clinical work
Required skills
Therapeutic assessment, crisis intervention, risk assessment, safety planning, trauma-informed care, systemic intervention, working with harmful sexual behaviours, collaboration with legal/medical/child protection systems
Preferred skills
Experience with young people engaging in sexualised behaviours, feminist intersectional approach, working with non-offending family members
Technologies
None stated
Responsibilities
Conduct therapeutic assessments and safety planning; deliver individual and group trauma recovery programs; intervene with children engaging in harmful sexual behaviours; collaborate with police, judicial, and child protection agencies; provide crisis response and intake services
Seniority
Mid-level, hands-on IC