Support Recovery. Empower Survivors.
Use your counselling expertise to support people during some of the most challenging moments of their lives. This rewarding role offers the opportunity to deliver meaningful trauma-informed care, advocate for victim-survivors, and help shape specialist sexual assault services across North West Queensland while making a genuine impact in rural and remote communities.

Job details

- Position status: Fixed Term Temporary
- Position type: Full-time
- Occupational group: Psychology, Counselling & Social Work
- Classification: HP4
- Workplace Location: North West Qld
- Job ad reference: QLD/MI
- Closing date: 22-Oct-2026
- Fortnightly salary: $ - $
- Job duration: 12 months
- Contact person: Karen Slater
- Contact details:
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About the role

Based in Mount Isa and supporting communities across the North West region, you will work within a collaborative multidisciplinary team to deliver high-quality, trauma-informed care while helping shape and strengthen sexual assault response services across the health service.

- Deliver specialised trauma-informed counselling, psychosocial assessments and risk management for individuals impacted by sexual assault and interpersonal trauma.
- Advocate for and support victim-survivors throughout their healthcare, forensic, legal and recovery journeys.
- Provide expert advice and guidance to clinicians, contribute to child protection and domestic and family violence responses, and build strong partnerships with key stakeholders.

Working with us





- Eligible health practitioners entitled to accrue an additional three days professional development leave per annum, resulting in a total of six days professional development leave per annum.
- Rural and Remote incentive: Category D allowance of $431.22 p.f.
- Tax savings through salary sacrificing options are also available.
- Professionally, our HHS values professionalism, leadership capability, excellence and resilience in our staff. We are committed to providing extraordinary opportunities for career development including in-house training, development and mentoring programs.

Requirements

- Mandatory requirements are a relevant tertiary degree qualification and appropriate registration/licences.
- C Class Motor Vehicle Licence.
- Pre-employment screening will be conducted for the successful applicant, including Criminal History checks.
- This is a VPD risk role and may require evidence of vaccination or immunity to: Hepatitis A/B, Measles, Mumps, Rubella, Varicella, Pertussis, and Tuberculosis.
- A period of probation may apply.
- This position may be required to obtain a Blue Card if clinically seeing a child under the age of 18 years as part of role.



The Commission for Children and Young People and Child Guardian Act 2000 requires Queensland Health to seek a ‘working with children check; from the Commission for Children and Young People and Child Guardian prior to appointment to this position.

About North West Hospital and Health Service

The North West Hospital and Health Service (NWHHS) delivers public health services across approximately 300,000 square kilometres, supporting remote communities throughout North Western Queensland and the Gulf of Carpentaria. We are committed to promoting community wellbeing and providing high-quality, accessible and effective healthcare for all.

- Unique locations
- Friendly communities
- Regional, rural and remote $$$ incentives

The lifestyle in Mount Isa is family friendly; it is a vibrant city with an outback community feel. You will fall in love with the natural splendour of the North West Queensland region, the experience of a rural/urban community and the opportunity to make a real and positive difference... and want to stay.

Mount Isa is a great place to live and work!

Interested?

Contact: Karen Slater on .

Applications close: Thursday, 22 October 2026.

Further information

We are committed to building inclusive cultures in the Queensland public sector that respect and promote human rights and diversity.

Our vision is to be Queensland's leading HHS delivering excellence in remote healthcare to our patients, working as an integral part of the community. We are an equal chance employer.

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📌 Senior Psychologist/Social Worker (Trauma Counsellor) - Family Advocacy Unit (Mount Isa)
🏢 Live North West QLD
📍 Mount Isa