Southport, Australia | Posted on 10/30/2026

Gold Coast Centre Against Sexual Violence (GCCASV)

4 days per week (Mon-Thurs), including one late shiftper week (Tues 11.30am- 7.30pm)

Fixed-term contract until 31 December 2028

SCHADS Award – Social and Community Services EmployeeLevel 6 Above-Award remuneration: $61.37per hour + superannuation + salary sacrificeavailable

About the role

GCCASV is seeking an experienced mental health practitioner to join our specialist Domestic Violence counselling and advocacy team.

The new role will strengthen GCCASV's response to theintersection of Domestic Violence, trauma and mental health.

The position combines a small, targeted client caseload withspecialist mental health assessment and counselling, responsive crisis andshort-term support as needed, intake and service pathway support, advocacy andsystem navigation, mental health-focused group interventions, partnershipdevelopment and organisational capacity building.

Working closely with the Counselling Manager and broaderteam, this role provides an opportunity to contribute both directly to clientwellbeing and to strengthening GCCASV's broader capacity to respond to mentalhealth needs.

Key responsibilities

- Providespecialist mental health assessment, formulation, counselling andtherapeutic intervention
- Maintaina small, targeted caseload of clients with additional mental health needsand/or other clinical considerations
- Provideresponsive crisis and short-term mental health support as needed,including for clients contacting or presenting to the service
- Supportintake, assessment, care planning and appropriate service pathways
- Supportclients to navigate and access mental health and related services,including through referral, linkage and individual advocacy
- Developrelationships, partnerships and referral pathways with mental health andcommunity services
- Supportcoordinated and wraparound responses where clients are engaging withmultiple services




- Developand deliver mental health-focused therapeutic and psychoeducational groupsand workshops
- Contributeto mental health resources, organisational learning, practice developmentand broader capacity building
- Participatein relevant sector networks, communities of practice and servicedevelopment activities

About you

You will be either a:

- RegisteredPsychologist with current AHPRA registration;
- Accredited Mental Health Social Worker with the Australian Association of SocialWorkers (AASW); or
- CredentialedMental Health Nurse with the Australian College of Mental Health Nurses

You will bring experience inmental health assessment, formulation and therapeutic intervention, includingworking with people experiencing complex mental health and psychosocialconcerns. You will have a robust understanding of domestic violence, coercivecontrol and trauma, and their impacts on mental health, wellbeing, risk andsafety.

You will demonstrate soundprofessional judgment, confidence in responding to distress and complexpresentations, and a collaborative, trauma-informed, violence-informed andvictim-survivor-centred approach.

Experience working withinspecialist domestic violence or violence against women services will be highlyregarded.

About GCCASV

The Gold Coast Centre Against Sexual Violence is aspecialist community-based organisation providing counselling, support,advocacy, education and prevention responses to sexual violence and domesticviolence.

We are committed to feminist, trauma-informed,violence-informed and evidence-informed practice and to the safety, dignity,autonomy and rights of victim-survivors.

What we offer

- Roleclassified under SCHADS Award Level 6, above-Award remuneration
- Superannuationin addition to salary
- Professional/clinicalsupervision
- Aspecialist, experienced and collaborative team workplace
- Opportunitiesto contribute to groups, resources, service development and organisationalcapacity building

Please note: It is a genuine occupational requirement of this position that it be filled by a woman as permitted by, and arguable under the Anti-Discrimination Act 1991. First Nations women are encouraged toapply

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