Social Worker
Core
Provide brief, structured wellbeing support, emotional assistance, and therapeutic counselling to adults, families, and children experiencing stress, adjustment challenges, and family violence.
Role type
Community-based Social Worker (Counselling and Casework)
Builds
Early intervention, stabilisation, and connection to ongoing services for individuals and families
Domain
Community Health / Social Services / Mental Health
Deliverable
client delivery
Required skills
Trauma-informed practice, family violence risk assessment, therapeutic counselling, advocacy, case planning, referral and navigation of government systems
Preferred skills
Experience with women affected by family violence, therapeutic counselling for children, community language skills
Technologies
Telehealth platforms, MARAM framework tools
Responsibilities
Conduct family violence risk assessments and safety planning; deliver individual therapeutic counselling to children including in school settings; support clients with housing, Centrelink, health, and legal system navigation; connect clients with specialist services through referral and advocacy; provide brief, structured support using solution-focused and strengths-based approaches
Seniority
Mid-level, hands-on practitioner
