Wellbeing Practitioner

Selection Criteria

Your application for this position should specifically address each of the selection criteria below.  Short listing and selection will be based upon responses to these selection criteria and key responsibility areas.

SC1 Provide evidence of a Bachelor qualification or specialist/post graduate qualification in: Social Work, Psychology, Nursing with a mental health specialisation, Occupational Therapy or equivalent.

SC2 Demonstrated highly developed theoretical knowledge and practice expertise in relation to student risk management and crisis intervention strategies

SC3 Demonstrated experience in building rapport and connection with adolescents and families presenting with complex needs, and demonstrated capacity to facilitate effective intervention and service coordination 

SC4 Demonstrate understanding of the developmental needs of children and adolescents, with an ability to apply this knowledge effectively when providing trauma informed interventions 

SC5 Demonstrated experience in providing 1:1 therapeutic counselling support to children and adolescents using evidence-based theories/frameworks

SC6 Demonstrated experience developing and facilitating therapeutic groupwork interventions for adolescents 

SC7 Demonstrated highly developed communication, interpersonal and networking skills with the demonstrated ability to liaise with a range of stakeholders within the education community and broader service system

SC8 Demonstrated commitment to Department of Education and WMYC values.

Role

The Wellbeing Practitioner works together with the Wellbeing Team, WMYC Leaders,…