Footscray

Community Services and Development

Student placement – North West Catchment

Location

There are 3 student placement opportunities available. 2 are based at our Footscray site, 1 Counselling student would be based at our Melton site. Students on placement will need to have a police check and a Working with Children Check

Eligibility

- Undergraduate, Degree or Masters Psychology, Social Work or Counselling.

Your placement may include:

For Social Work Students:

- - A day in the life of this position includes duty in central intake, completing comprehensive assessments, developing individual treatment plans and providing brief interventions. Your assessment and treatment plans will address risk for both the client and their family and social network. You will participate in clinical reviews and clinical supervision. You will be responsible for a counselling caseload, join our Care & Recovery Coordination (CRC). Workers in their outreach and advocacy functions, and provide facilitation support to our therapeutic day program.

For Counselling and Psychology Students:

- - A day in the life of this position includes duty in central intake, completing comprehensive assessments,



developing individual treatment plans, and making referrals, and providing brief interventions. Your assessment and treatment plans will address risk for both the client and their family and social network. You will participate in clinical reviews and clinical supervision. You will be responsible for a counselling caseload, including the development of therapeutic treatment plans and case recording.

To apply for a student placement please apply here. Students interested in other sites can make additional applications to the specific advertisement on Odyssey Victoria's website.

Click here for a copy of the position description.

Please ensure that your covering letter responds to the key selection criteria, which is in the position descriptor, and that your documents are uploaded at the time of application. We are unable to consider applications that do not follow the outlined process.

We will be assessing applications on a rolling basis and suitable candidates will be shortlisted immediately. This role will close once a suitable candidate has been selected, so please don’t wait to apply!

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